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My Turn:
The goal for Project Succession is for adults to read the story. Though as I am writing the story, it could be a YA novel, just lacking romance and teenage characters. Physically, the characters are in their late 20s to early 30s. The characters are different from your average adults. Aeris is a single and child free working adult woman, focusing on herself and understanding her role as a royal.
So, at the moment, I am unsure what demographic to place this story.
I’d rather it not be YA!
Your book sounds like it’s targetted towards adults. Mine is also going to be targeted towards adults, it’s far too mature of themes to be for teens or lower. I think Y/A has a bad rap and had been warped to mean romance more than what it actually is, which is for adults under 30. That doesn’t mean all adults under 30 want to read romance. It’s kind of frustrating to be honest.
(YA is classified as 12-18 and NA is classified 18-30 audience. Honestly when i read NA it reminds me of the books I grew up on with the safety glasses taken off. )
I’ve typically always wanted to write YA just because I wanted to target the audience that I remember being and needing these books the most. But, realistically, I’m at a point in my life where me dampening the language, the violence and the spice level just doesn’t feel authentic.
I’ve decided to split my project into two books to show the two major parts of my protagonist’s character arch. And in theory I could easily call the first book YA but the second is going to be a lot darker and have more adult themes. So might as well send it lol.
In 2009 it actually got redefined. YA is teens and NA is under 30 just less talked about. It got really big for the people who want the YA feel but also want adult themes. YA I think gets a lot of the romance vibe because that’s the most popular genre amongst teen readers. NA i’ve seen everything from straight erotica to scifi to horror. And from what I’ve seen its a lot of the people who grew up on late 90s to early 2000s YA but need something a little more grown-up theme wise. Then normal adult kind of gives me the dryer wordier vibe normally.
My stories are all over the place in terms of intended audience, there’s no particular age group I prefer writing for
Sapphire Wings definitely falls somewhere between older Middle Grade and younger YA, given that the protagonists are 11 years old and does have themes suited for that age group (friendship, family, learning about the world at large, etc.)
Current project is either NA or Adult, not sure where it falls yet. It does have more mature themes, the main characters are 25+, and is less restricted with the violence (and language, to a degree) compared to my previous project.
I’ve also written YA, though I’ve yet to finish one story in that age group
That’s stupid that they redefined it. Teen should mean teen, not young adult. Young adult should mean 20-30 years old. That is the stupidest thing that they’d redefine YA to mean that, because it’s completely inaccurate.
YA 13-18 always, yep. Although, not to say older people won’t enjoy the books
It’s only after editing The Facade of Quad in Nimrod that I realized that one is more suited for 19 and older because of the topic matter. And so, the (Other) World books are for an older crowd, asking questions and having themes that an older audience would understand and may even relate to.
I then wrote another book, Jack Of All Trades, which has some older themes and character, but the idea of finding identity or loss of identity could be for teens as well.
Yup! I seem to have mostly attracted people in the age range of 30-60 (probably because of word of mouth from family lol), but people younger than me (I’m in 20s) have also checked them out. But yeah I didn’t write with an age range in mind. I just wrote a story that I liked and made it the way I wanted it to be instead of trying to focus on what the reader wants or current trends
Honestly, it’s not really that big of a deal. Just because you have a target audience, if you do have one, doesn’t necessarily mean that they were be the main group that reads
