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Smaller books are a tougher sell. As superficial as it sounds, readers generally want heavier books for their dollar.
And the category itself lends to longer books. A lot tends to have happened in lives worth reading about. If you can't fill more than 200 pages, people might not think there's enough there of interest.
Don't scrimp on the details. Remember, your potential reader will have no idea what in hell you're talking about. You, on the other hand, have been through it before.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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