I am considering entering a middle grade MS I've been working on to the Delacorte contest, but am a bit confused about the page requirements. The contest guidelines state it should be between 96 and 160 typewritten pages, but to me it seems the word count would be awfully high for an MG. Am I doing my margins and font size wrong, or what? My current YA MS I am working on, for example, has almost 25,000 words and that is only up to page 75. Is it because the chapters are so much shorter that the white space between takes up more? I am so confused!
