{"id":4252,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/question-for-horror-writers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:26:35","slug":"question-for-horror-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4252","title":{"rendered":"Question for horror writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, having come up through the ranks with fantasy novels, that&#8217;s the genre whose word count requirements I&#8217;m most familiar with. But I&#8217;ve noticed that horror novels are often substantially shorter.<\/p>\n<p>So, horror writers (or editors, agents, etc.): In your experience, what&#8217;s the minimum word count for a horror story to be published and accepted in the market as a legitimate novel? (Talking about adult fiction, here, not YA.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, having come up through the ranks with fantasy novels, that&#8217;s the genre whose word count requirements I&#8217;m most familiar with. But I&#8217;ve noticed that horror novels are often substantially shorter. So, horror writers (or editors, agents, etc.): In your experience, what&#8217;s the minimum word count for a horror story to be published and accepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}