>am currently the majority of the way through my first novel
>according to calculations I’ve done, the final page count is going to be 500-600 pages
>it’s not a fantasy or sci-fi novel, but is instead a literary thriller
Would this be a problem for presenting it to publishers? I feel the novel genuinely NEEDS to be that long, but I wonder if the length would raise eyebrows given the genre. I’m already at least 400 pages deep into this thing, and I’m currently in the early stages of the third act.