Counting Down to the 2028 50th Anniversary of my first published book (September 23, 1978)
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I am an author. I write Yaoi. This is my website. Yaoi means my main characters are gay lovers. If that bothers you, you're on the wrong website. Sorry.   Transman Quaraun (The Pink Necromancer) and his husband King Gwallmaic (aka BoomFuzzy the Unicorn) King of The UnSeelie Court. Main characters of The Adventures of The Pink Necromancer series.
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Happy 2026!
It is our 30th anniversary here at Space Dock 13!
On the web since 1996!
You have encountered an extremely old website that continues to exist in old web ways, the same way it has done for now three decades.
In spite of being now 30 years old this year, started in 1996, it is still heavily active and old pages updated daily, new pages added daily, still now in 2026. All hand written, all hand coded (no AI), all by me, same as it ever was.
We Still Exist: The Old Web Did Not Go Away, You Just Forgot How To Find Us
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Why publishers refuse to look at manuscripts over 120k words or answering the FAQ: My book is 200k words and not halfway finished yet, can I get it published?
Why publishers refuse to look at manuscripts over 120k words or answering the FAQ: My book is 200k words and not halfway finished yet, can I get it published?
Why publishers refuse to look at manuscripts over 120k words or answering the FAQ: My book is 200k words and not halfway finished yet, can I get it published?
Why publishers refuse to look at manuscripts over 120k words or answering the FAQ: My book is 200k words and not halfway finished yet, can I get it published?
This question gets asked a Lot, especially on Reddit, where we see it asked a few times EVERY DAY.
Why publishers refuse to look at manuscripts over 120k words or answering the FAQ: My book is 200k words and not halfway finished yet, can I get it published?
Chapter and page count mean nothing in terms of how big a book is.
Reason:
- * the average printed mass market paperback 5x7" book has 250 words to a page... this is only 25,000 words per 100 pages or 75k words per average 300 page printed paperback
- * the average printed trade paperback 6x9" book has 330 words to a page... this is 33,000 words per 100 pages or 99k words per average 300 page printed paperback
- * the average digital Word or Google doc is formatted to 8x11" copy paper and has 750 words to a page... this is a mega whopping 75,000 words per 100 pages or 150k words per average 300 page printed paperback
- * Chapters can be anything from one single word to 20k or more words.
An Epic Novel is anything over 120k words, and called epic due to the size of the printing press machine required to print it.
As the bulk of traditional publishing houses do not publish epic novels, due to the fact their print press machines are physically incapable of making a book that thick, you will be stuck self publishing it. Traditional publishing will not be an option for most anyone writing epic novels. There are literally only seven publishing houses which accept epic novels.
Do keep in mind that publishing houses and agents judge books by word counts, not page counts, as the page counts of 8x11" sheets of paper or Google Docs does not accurately reflect the page counts of a printed 5x7" paperback book. And if you use extra big or extra small fonts, or non standard margins in your document, your word counts will be skewed way more, meaning a 180 pages in Google docs could be as little as a 10k word short story or as long as a 230k word epic trilogy, depending on your settings.
Without knowing the exact word count, there is no way to tell if it is too long, too short, or just right.
You need to remember that the printing press machine used to print your book can only bind certain thicknesses. The word count a publisher accepts is based on the arm size on the printing machine they own. There are literally only 4 publishing houses in America, which own a machine capable of printing a 120k+ word book. And only 3 publishers in Europe with those machines. Meaning you are limited to literally **only seven publishing houses on the planet** that you can submit your book to, and if they don't like your story/idea, you have no more options.
Most printing machines max out at 80k words of page thickness, which is the reason that is the upper limit publishing houses accept. There are more than twenty thousand publishing houses in America and Europe who own this type of printing machine, so you have a better chance of getting published if your word count is under 80k words, simply because you (or your agent) has the option to query more publishing houses.
Remember, publishing houses can't just wave a magic wand and their machines magically bind larger sized books. Those machines cost several million dollars each. When you try to tell a publishing house "But it's a great story and I can't remove more words..." You are literally saying to them: "But you can easily dish out $forty million dollars to buy the bigger machine to print my 120k word book that'll only earn you five thousand dollars in it's lifetime!"
Don't expect a publishing house that owns a standard size machine, to dish out millions of dollars to buy the epic sized machine, just to publish your novel, because they won't.
For traditional publishing you have two options here: edit down to a word count that can be printed by the twenty thousand publishing houses who own standard sizes machines, or pray one of the only seven publishing houses on the planet who owns an epic sized machine loves and accepts your work.
Believe me, no amount of you telling them how great and unremovable your words are is going to convince a publisher to pay millions to buy a machine that can print up your 120k+ word book.
If it really is a super big word count, you might be best publishing it as a web novel on Royal Road or ScribbleHub or a similar place.
Or, if you are self publishing, you could divide it up into several books, like how Harry Potter was released as 7 books, and publish them on Amazon.
Also… why archive.org? You do know you will be **surrendering ALL rights to your world and characters** and your book will be put into the public domain for anyone else to publish and sell on Amazon, if you list it with Archive.org.
>what exactly is the market for epic novels nowadays? I only know of a few select pieces, like War and Peace and some Hindu texts.
Literally every book published by TOR https://www.tor.com/ is epic, as they own one of those epic printing presses I mentioned, and they publish thousands of titles a year.
Baen Books https://www.baen.com/ another publishing house in possession of an epic sized machine, only accepts book that are minimum 130k words and publishes obviously nothing but epic novels, hundreds of new titles every month.
The infamous Random Penguin https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ literally the largest publishing house in the world, publishes on average, wait for it, twenty thousand new titles every month... the bulk of them epic.
I'd say epic novels are doing pretty well, and anyone who reads traditionally published paperbacks knows this.
Why publishers refuse to look at manuscripts over 120k words or answering the FAQ: My book is 200k words and not halfway finished yet, can I get it published?
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So, I was over on Reddit, you like I often am, and found this question. And answered it, like I do. However, the answer I initially gave was a simple generic answer. If you want to read my original answer unaltered, simply click on Reddit's embed feature links which Reddit provides for webmasters to be able to post their answers on their websites, while linking back to the original thread on Reddit (if you didn't know Reddit offered and encouraged the use of this feature, look for it in the "share" features underneath every post, comment, and reply on Reddit).
I am answering random questions today about writing, self-publishing, character creation, and world building, over on Reddit and decided to take my answers from there and expand upon them even further over here. So that's what this page is. Me rambling on about various aspects of world building techniques I use when writing the Quaraun series. The questions I am answering are embedded here. Clicking the link in the embedded question will take you to the original Reddit page where you can see the original answer along with other people's answers. If you wish to comment, you can do so on the Reddit page where a place to do so is provided.
In any case, as with all of my Reddit answers found on my site here, my original post on Reddit is much shorter then the article here.
Where to find more info on my methods to writing Elf culture, Elf society, Elf ethics, and the Elven way of life (aka other writing related articles that started out in life as Reddit answers):
- What makes an Elf an Elf?
- Moon Elves - Albinism in The Quaraun Series.
- How To Write Hot Sex - Video Interview On Elf Sex Lives
- On Writing A Clinically Insane Character Accurately, While Avoiding The Psychopath Stereotype
- Wizards vs Witches vs Sorcerers: How are they different?
- FAQs About Quaraun
- Psychedelics In A 'High' High Fantasy World (High Elves Getting High)
- High, High Elves: Elves on Opium | Drug Use
- Writing Horror That Features Violence Against Children
- Spell-casting Side Effects of Magic
- Child Sacrifice in Fantasy Novels
- Meet the Characters - Who is GhoulSpawn
- Marriage in Moon Elf Culture
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While there are around 20k pages on this website, most of them are blocked from search engines, with only around 800 of them available for appearing in Google/Bing/etc search results. The remainder can only be accessed via the various links found throughout this site. This was done deliberately on my part, and I did it because the bulk of the pages on this website are chapters from 138 novels and 423 novellas, so only the first page of each novel and novella indexed by search engines, and the remainder are linked in order, one page at a time, via clicking "next page" at the end of each. So if you are looking for a specific page from a specific novel, Google can't help you.
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If you encounter a page which asks for a password, no, you can not request access. There are over 2k pages of this website set to password access, due to the ongoing FBI investigation into my son's murder. If you are a police officer authorized access these pages but do not have the passwords, let me know, I will deliver the passwords to the specific pages you are allowed to access, to you via the Portland FBI office and you can pick them up from the FBI agent in charge of the murder investigation.
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Looking for my annual NaNoWriMo Prompts and Dares? I've been publishing these every year since 2004!
 The Park Bench Method of Writing The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane: Paperpacks & Hardcover Editions on Amazon:
Not sure what the series is about? Check out and Faeries vs Elves (In The Quaraun Series) A Pink Necromancer World Lore Post and Worldbuilding MoonQuakes and Disabled Characters for Fantasy Writers and How well do I know Quaraun? - Let's find out! to find out more about the plot and lore of the series. Not sure which story to start with? These here are good places to start, to get a good introduction to the three main characters:
Or if after reading those, you still are looking for more free to read stories, there are over three thousand of them on this site, too many to list here, but here a few dozen to get you started... ...you can just jump in and try reading some of the free to read online stories first before committing to buying the books:
Hmmm... soooo... I was making the above list to ALL the links to EVERY Quaraun story published on my website here, and adding it into the footer of my site, here as you can see, which loads on every page, and then I realized... wait... there are over two thousand Pink Necromancer stories up free to read on my website, I can't put two thousand links on every single page! Whoops! LOL! So, now I'm putting list to ALL the links to EVERY Quaraun story published on my website here on this page instead and just link that page to the footer instead. But also I'll just leave some of the links in the footer, as you can see above.
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The Space Dock 13 WebRing
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Yes, this website (founded in 1996) is old enough to have WebRings on it, and they are still in use.
Don't know what a WebRing is?
They were how we webmasters used to get traffic to our websites before the invention of search engines (aka before Jeeves, DogPile, Yahoo. Google, Bing, or the rest existed). In their simplest form a WebRing is an html code that rotates link displays. In their more advanced form they are java scripts that give random results. Each ring had three active links titled "Previous", "Random", and "Next", clicking any of the 3 links would take you to the next website in the ring.
Web Rings are the REASON the internet was called "the world wide web". To use them, each webmaster submitted their site to the ring, a single code held 100 websites, and codes could be stacked to hold 100 code sets (or 10,000 links to 10,000 websites), each web master in the list, would then place the code in the footer of their website.
This created the SPIDER WEB that was the literal WEB OF LINKS that gave the internet it's name "World Wide Web" and is WHY websites are CALLED "web sites". And technically, your site is not a WEB site unless it is connected to a WEBRing, likewise you technically are not a WEBMaster if you do not build WEBrings links for you WEBsite to connect to the WEB.
Unfortunately, most knowledge of WebRings, and whi sites were called WEBsites and sites on the WEB were called the World Wide Web, vanished from the internet in 2014 when the official WebRing.org company who managed 90%+ of the internet's WebRings went out of business after the infamous Google Panda 2013 bot attack that delisted ALL websites from the Google Index if they contained a WebRing of links to other websites in it's footer.
And while most sites abandoned the use of WebRing Codes on their sites, Space Dock 13 did not. The Space Dock 13 WebRing remains active, now 28 years after it's creation. Over the decades however, one by one all the other websites in the ring have gone off line, and as they did, I replaced the url with a link to a page of my own website (as this is a java code - it updated on every website without the others needing to change anything). Today in 2026, eelkat.com is the last remaining website in the ring, and now all 10k links go only to pages on eelkat.com, no longer sending you to other websites.
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If you encounter a page which asks for a password, no, you can not request access. There are over 2k pages of this website set to password access, due to the ongoing FBI investigation into my son's murder. If you are a police officer authorized access these pages but do not have the passwords, let me know, I will deliver the passwords to the specific pages you are allowed to access, to you via the Portland FBI office and you can pick them up from the FBI agent in charge of the murder investigation.
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