Dear Leigh, I'm not sure if you have already answered this question, but what was the final word count for Shadow and Bone? I'm curious because I'm almost finished with my own novel. I know that "the story is done when it's done", but I'm just really curi

So I went back into my gmail to get an answer for you (and got a little choked up reading my original exchange with Jo).

The MS I queried with was 72K. I think the final book was somewhere between 80 and 85K?

Exciting that your novel is almost complete. Good luck with next steps