Everyone seems to be talking about new adult literature.
I feel left behind.
Writer's Digest simply labels it literature written for ages 18 to 29-- right after declaring young adult (YA) literature stops at 17.
Oh?
I dig a little deeper and learn that this genre is now "in vogue" according to new adult author Gensese Davis. Davis says she fought for the new adult label (as opposed to a YA marketing plan) for The Holder's Dominion and won.
I think back to a YA class I took a few summers ago and realize that my class project would probably be labeled new adult because it's set at a historically black college. My protagonist is dealing with adjusting to college life and becoming an adult. Will having a label for it encourage me to dig that project out of my junk (read draft) drawer and revive it?
If only writing could be so simple.
Sources:
Chuck Sambuchino, "Meet 28 agents looking for new writers," Writer's Digest October 2013, p. 29
Gensese Davis, "Overcoming the YA obsession," Publishers Weekly, January 21 2013, p. 72
I feel left behind.
Writer's Digest simply labels it literature written for ages 18 to 29-- right after declaring young adult (YA) literature stops at 17.
Oh?
I dig a little deeper and learn that this genre is now "in vogue" according to new adult author Gensese Davis. Davis says she fought for the new adult label (as opposed to a YA marketing plan) for The Holder's Dominion and won.
I think back to a YA class I took a few summers ago and realize that my class project would probably be labeled new adult because it's set at a historically black college. My protagonist is dealing with adjusting to college life and becoming an adult. Will having a label for it encourage me to dig that project out of my junk (read draft) drawer and revive it?
If only writing could be so simple.
Sources:
Chuck Sambuchino, "Meet 28 agents looking for new writers," Writer's Digest October 2013, p. 29
Gensese Davis, "Overcoming the YA obsession," Publishers Weekly, January 21 2013, p. 72
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