I have some advice too for new authors as a reader. You know what makes me not read your novel? When you have grammar/spelling errors in your title and synopsis. Biggest turn-offs for me ever wanting to read your novels at all. Makes me think you don't care about your story and that it is full...
Literally no one describes a book's/story's length by using how many chapters or words it has. It is almost universally by how many 'pages' a book has. How many chapters a story has is arbitrary since chapter lengths vary widely, and word count for an average book can have a humongous range (for...