[sandal]

I decided ahead of time that my book would be exactly 300 pages. I submitted an exactly 300 page manuscript, but I think my copyeditor shaved two pages of extraneous words :-/

Anyway, point being, I was pretty obsessive about not letting the book balloon. It forced me to put the knife to a lot of good content that wasn't quite great.

[jamesbritt]

Setting a max page count is a good plan. I'm sure that had never occurred to anyone at Wrox, where books were routinely at the 1K+ pages mark.