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It may seem like a trivial question but my Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter series is in a dime novel format that is shorter than traditional novels. Each adventure is 64-pages in length in print and whatever it translates to in eBook form, respectively.

As I am still trying to find the right nomencalture and positioning for these stories, I am curious to hear if you guys would qualify these as short stories or novellas or - the way I do it - as dime novels.

the classification usually goes by word count

Here's a rough guide:

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Flash: up to 1000 words
Short Short: Under 2,000 words
Short story: USA 2,000--7,500 words
Short Story: UK and Commonwealth 1000 - 12,000 words
Novelette (General Fiction): 7,500--15,000 words
Novelette (SF & Fantasy): 7,500--17,500 words
Novella (General Fiction): 15,000--30,000 words
Novella (SF & Fantasy): 17,500--40,000 words
Novel (General Fiction): Over 30,000 words
Novel (SF & Fantasy): Over 40,000 words

Interesting list. Thanks, Shaun. With that in mind my adventures definitely qualify as Novellas as they hover around 25,000 words.

Thanks, Shaun, I'd kinda always wondered this too.

I like the term "dime novel", especially as originally used in the 19th Century American West (usually).
Of note, the 'inventor' of the American Short Story, Edgar Alan Poe, described a SS as "that which can be read in an afternoon", presumably at leisure.

OT; I once read that many settlers brought two books west with them. The Bible and Shakespeare's works. How cool is that?