Eliminate all roach food sources. They love the carbohydrates and sugar found in your food, soaps, and even plants. Keep food (for humans and pets) in glass or plastic containers, with lids that fit tightly. Transfer any food that you keep in bags, boxes, or other materials that are easy for roaches to chew through.
For that group, a novel is more than 40K words, a Novella is 17.5K words, and a short story is under 7.5K words. I donât mind a publisher, agent or even a writer giving us his opinion of what word count makes a book, but to try to pass it off as definitive is more than arrogant. Pfft.
The number of words in a novel will vary depending on the genre. A young-adult novel will run between 20,000 and 40,000 words. That would be the length of a novella in mainstream fiction. Many genres seem to have succumbed to supersizing.