Publish Order

tldr; AnimeCon Harem project planning notes.

Continuing the research on short chapter format I started in September, I've been using Royal Road as a testbed for a publish order format, for when AnimeCon Harem is published as an e-book, or actual physical book. While I prefer large chapter format (25,000-word average chapters) for online reading, short chapter or 'serial' format is better on some sites and in actual books.

The story neatly divides into 3,000-word average short chapters. Adults read at roughly 275 words a minute, which should give the chapters a 10 to 15 minute reading time, fairly ideal. One of the major benefits of this reading order is that I'm easily able to break up the long Emily chapter and intersperse it among reading about Stephanie, Brian, and Kelly at the convention.

I only had to combine separate sections once; the Rebecca POV portion of Out of the Blue was very short and became attached to part of the Mary: the Mastery portion where they're sitting together in the cafe.

• 2,226 Before the Convention
• 5,308 Gijinka Capture
• 3,492 Wolf, Sheep, and Shepherd
• 4,688 Painting the Roses Pink
• 4,654 Fighting His Past
• 3,870 Flight from the Poisoned Oasis
• 3,522 Gijinka Training
• 4,427 Making the Call
• 2,326 Hotel Room
• 4,337 Dangerous Games
• 3,723 Truth or Dare, Round One
• 3,683 Truth or Dare, Round Two
• 3,709 Truth or Dare, Round Three
• 4,127 Playing to Win
• 3,440 A Taste of Pink
• 4,843 Break's Over
• 4,772 Turning Pink and Red
• 2,486 Breakfast
• 2,943 Ease Up
• 4,586 Deal with the Devil
• 2,310 Get Ready
• 2,548 Out of the Blue
• 5,561 Nine years ago
• 5,634 Seven years ago
• 4,720 To the Con
• 2,896 Mayday, Mayday ***
• 3,276 Panel Crashing ***
• 3,244 Spanking Stephanie ***
• 3,912 Mary: the Mastery ***
• 4,493 A Call and a Cafe ***
• 5,709 Five years ago
• 4,622 The Vendors Room ***
• 3,099 Chrissy-Cat Creations ***
• 3,486 The K-Pop Fan ***
• 4,699 Three Years Ago
• 3,763 Better Late than Never
• 3,183 Upper Level

• 4,989 Argument
• 2,635 The Sister of Sarah Star
• 4,466 Opportunity Struck
• 4,250 Fierce Maiden
• 5,084 Order of the Sovereign Swords ***
• 4,030 Mara, the Nightmare ***
• 3,591 Playing Coy
• 3,452 Playing Decoy
• 3,871 Guardian Angel
• 3,144 Girlfriend and Goodbye
• 5,404 The Cosplaying Girls ***
• 3,520 Colorful Interruption ***
• 3,755 Auditions ***
• 3,749 Invitations and Promises ***
• 4,918 The Cosplay Contest ***
• 5,349 Pizza Place
• 2,146 Super Slash Sisters ***
• 4,319 Scheming ***
• 3,115 Convening ***
• 3,172 Gamer Girls ***
• 3,386 Right to be Wrong
• 4,807 Problematic
• 4,407 Show and Tell, Round One
• 5,344 Together at Last

(*** denotes a section from a bonus chapter)