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If you keep an eye on the pulse of publishing, or otherwise are a writer on Twitter, chances are you have heard of an emergent categorization New Adult .
Although there have been many definitions and speculation what exactly entails category floating around the Internet, I found an off NA Alley to be most useful:
" in general, a novel is considered NA if it encompasses the transition from adolescence, a stage of life often represented among young adults (YA) fiction and true adulthood.
protagonists usually fall between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, although exceptions may apply. NA characters are often portrayed :. experience college living away from home for the first time, military deployment, learning, a first steady job, a first serious relationship, etc. "
for more information on what NA is all about, check out their full" Qu'est- New Adult what? "page, which has a great explanation.
Even more interesting than the actual definition of the class, for me, was the opinion of people on NA (which range from we do not need to , where have you been all my life? ), and people's expectations from where NA will go from here.
now, NA has been pretty focused on novels contemporaries such as Cora Carmack s Losing It and Faking It Jamie McGuire s Beautiful Disaster and Tammara Webber s Easy , which is fine, but I'd love to see it expand to other genres and I really believe he has the potential to do so.
But as an extraordinary agent Suzie Townsend said in his post about New adults and different kinds , where the category will depend entirely by readers. And for me, this is an exciting prospect.
The eighteen to one twenty years the segment has always been difficult to break into-much the reason why most of the characters I've written about until recently are about seventeen. Many editors believe that readers do not want to read characters in this age, and it was largely ignored for a long time.
But now the self-publishing has changed. The massive success of NA self-published novels drew attention to the previously unmarketable age group, and now people are starting to pay attention.
In essence, the players have created new adults, and whether or not it changes and develops depend much of readers' reception of this new category.
And for me, that is something very special.
What do you think? New Adult is a fad, or will it continue to grow and change? Bites
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