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Hi, Simon,

Thanks for your message. The general rule about length is, of course, that a book is only finished when the author is done telling the story, no matter how long it takes. In reality, though, the average novel takes me about 7 or 8 months from the planning stages until I have a manuscript ready to hand to my publisher. In my own experience, the shortest took me 6 weeks, and the longest took a whole year.                                                       —–Gordon Korman—–