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3. Good news is there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that big pile of papers scattered on the floor in my living room (see last post), is almost gone and I will get ClockwiseR to my lovely betas on schedule. Whoot!
4. IT'S A LITTLE HAYWIRE, is releasing on Monday January 30th and if all goes well, will be FREE for three days. Watch for it!
5. Now with my foray into Middle Grade, I'm interested in posts like this:
Are Tweens a thing?Actually, I was interested in it before I wrote middle grade because I've always thought there was a missing section in the children's genre. I'm glad it's getting some attention now.
How about you? Do you think publishing is missing an important age group?
Happy Weekend everyone!
Is there a genre for old people?
ReplyDeleteYes, it's called Large Print! :D
DeleteI was thinking middle grade is for tweens, right? Did you just say that? It's early and I'm medicated.
ReplyDeleteI do think there is a massive market for college-aged kids. Right now they're lumped into "adult" which I think is a mistake.
I was thinking the same thing. The marketing experts say college kids don't read for fun, so they don't publish books for them. So we end up with a chicken-or-egg scenario. If they actually DID publish books aimed at college kids, the kids would read! This generation grew up on Harry Potter. They still like fiction. Honest. I see them on the campus where I work with a nose in Hunger Games and other YA titles. Would it kill publishers to try putting out a few "new adult" titles instead of assuming there's no market?
DeleteNot that they're immature. I'm just saying, a 19-year-old is very different from a 40-year-old.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a need for more middle grade. Some of the YA stuff is being read by adults so I think the content has become more mature.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with your new middle grade. It looks great!
Vera
I'm not sure about that. I think tween balances between upper middle grade and young YA. Most middle schoolers read YA or adult - that I know. Or at least girls. It's the elementary girls that read the young YA/tween. Does it really matter what it's called? I'm not it's big enough to warrant its own section. But I def. think there's a place for it! Some of my fav middle grades are really more tween.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I believe in dividing up books into age categories in the first place, to be honest. A good book about a teenager can be fully interesting for an adult *or* a younger kid, ditto for one about an adult or a child. Sticking them into age-labelled slots might nail a kid down to just reading what's "recommended" instead of branching out.
ReplyDeleteAnd on that note, I look forward to reading HAYWIRE- is that allowed for 44-year-olds? :)
Oops, I just realized I sound like I don't even believe in having kids' books vs. adult ones! That's not what I meant. O_O
DeleteI agree with the other commenter who said we need a market for college age. I wrote what, I guess, would technically be called older YA - it's not so much a coming-of-age story as it is, the heroine knows who and what she is, and is trying to figure out her place in the world. You know, like people who have just graduated high school but haven't been in the work force for very long yet. There really doesn't seem to be much of push toward aiming books in that direction!
ReplyDeleteOne area that is not terribly over burdened would be the "marvelously mature" crowd.
ReplyDeleteI see myself in that picture. Lol.
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