For the last few years, authors have been talking about the feed-in novella. You can't launch a book, they say, unless it has an attached novella. What does that mean? Well (I pretend to pull an example out of the air) for example, WINNING A BRIDE by Jade Lee has just been released! (Imagine confetti and a Sousa march right now). Next month see the advent of WHAT THE BRIDE WORE . Yeah! But here's the problem: I don't write short. Not really. I routinely go 10-20,000 words over my limit. So a novella suddenly becomes a short novel. And my novel...well, let's just say I save weeks in my writing schedule just to cut words and tighten my manuscript. And that doesn't even begin to address the point of the novella. After all, the whole idea is to give people a taste of my writing, a nice little story (purchased cheap) that leads them into my larger work. That's like crafting the perfect piece of tiny chocolate. I never think little chocolate. Who wants...
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