They’ve become the darling of the ebook world. It’s usually hard to find novellas in print. They’re fast reads that pack a lot of punch in a little package. What’s new with BookShots is the branding and availability. Novellas have been around forever and a day and night. Novels, on the other hand, are typically 90k words or more. For authors who think in word counts, novellas tend to settle between the 25-50k word range.
You know, not quite a short story, not quite a novel. They are, in every sense of the word, novellas. They made their debut last month and are literally popping up everywhere.īookShots are a very clever bit of marketing targeted to today’s dwindling attention spans. BookShots are, in fact, the brainchild of James Patterson, the man who sells more books than there are zombies playing Pokemon Go. And no, they are not inoculations to prevent you from getting the dreaded book worms.
