How long should a book be? Just right – guest post at Do Authors Dream of Electric Books

I don't do waffle. We magazine sub-editors are Jedis of the delete key. We fillet flabby stories until they're sharp and focussed. We know readers are busy and we don't tolerate anyone who takes five paragraphs to explain something when one will do. I've always felt that books should be as long – or short – as the material deserves, but economic considerations have often forced authors to pad or to curtail artificially.

So today I'm at Authors Electric, happy to celebrate the emancipation of length… and the book that is, like Goldilocks's third porridge, just right.