A Note on Word Count – how many words should a popular fiction novel or a children's book really be? Well here are some word counts to help you out . . .

Word counts – I'll get straight into it, starting with books for grown ups. Popular fiction in particular.
My first book, Three Times a Lady was roughly 100,000 words. Here's how I worked out the word count – I literally counted the words in a Cathy Kelly book, a Sheila O'Flanagan book and a Marian Keyes [...:]