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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StevenJPemberton" data-source="post: 2722964" data-attributes="member: 769850">You probably need an agent to submit to any of the reputable publishers, so figure out how you get one of them.The ideal length for a book depends mainly on the age of the intended reader. Young adult is around 60k-80k words, adult is 80k-100k.There's nothing you can do to stop anyone else from writing the same ideas as you. Ideas for stories don't belong to anyone. If you look more closely, you'll probably find they're not really that similar. If someone copies a large chunk of your actual writing, that's copyright infringement, which you can sue for. But how would they get hold of your book before you'd tried to publish it? And even if they could, they wouldn't need to.</blockquote>