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Thanks, Ennio! And congratulations on being my first subscriber :) The lengths will vary, mainly because I need to find sensible break points in the story. Looking slightly ahead, episodes 2-3 will be about the same length (though the pace picks up a bit). After that, the episodes should be a bit longer. The 1st was 1320 words by my count, and I'm aiming to average 2000-2500. However, I'll probably make some even longer in order to maintain pacing through any slower bits. My plan is to take a year for the 130K word first novel. This allows me to fully edit the next novel and work on the remaining ones in the pipeline, while giving existing chapters a once-over and polish before posting. This said, I appreciate the feedback and will take into consideration how to accelerate things a bit. I can't adjust the first 4 episodes (which already have been scheduled), but going forward I conceivably could post shorter episodes twice a week, though the break points may be a little less natural sometimes. If one of these approaches strikes you as more desirable (ex. episodes this length but twice a week vs longer episodes once a week), please let me know. Substack and Vella both make it easy to schedule episodes however I want.

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Thanks, Turilove! I really appreciate you enthusiasm. I've scheduled the next few episodes to be released on Sundays (around noon EST). After that, the episodes either will get a bit larger or I'll try releasing two a week (Wed and Sun). I'm still figuring out the best way to manage my workflow, but there definitely will be a new episode every Sunday.

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