Mystery at Little Bitterroot

Mystery at Little Bitterroot is 100% complete. Using the evaluation statistics in MS Word, my novel checks out at 69,520 words with a Flesch Reading Ease of 84.0 and a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 3.9 (you want the higher the better for the reading ease and the lower the better for the grade level). Statistically, Mystery at Little Bitterroot grades out slightly better than Montana Harvest which was accepted by my literary agent. Now it's on to a final edit for The Killing Zone. Expected completion date for my third novel in The Jim Buchanan Series is September 30th.

                                    Montana Harvest        Mystery at Little

                                                                             Bitterroot

Counts            

  Words                                   64,549                     69,520

  Characters                           293,793                  314,377

  Paragraphs                              2,836                       3,021

  Sentences                                6,719                       7,095

                       

Averages                    

  Sentences per Paragraph            2.4                           2.4

  Words per Sentence                   9.5                           9.7

  Characters per Word                  4.3                           4.2

                       

Readability                 

  Passive Sentences                      0%                           0%

  Flesch Reading Ease                82.3                         84.0

  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level      4.1                           3.9