In reading the New Adult genre article in Publisher's Weekly, I was happy to find that there is thought going into this sliver of the targeted reading public.
New Adult may be a lame tag but it may help when we get the just-out-of-college-so-now-I-can-read-what-I-want people.
I got a few title suggestions from the Christian Science Monitor's article.Yea! bigger piles!
I am often one of the tired-at-the-end-of-the-day adult readers who wants something well-written, easy, satisfying...
YALSA - The next big thing
Adult authors are getting in on the act and writing teen books.
Blogs
Teenreads blog is one of the Book Report Network's eight blogs. President is Carol Fitzgerald.
From what I can tell they have alot of different reviewers and the Teen Board gives a bird's eye view of what the Y in YA want.
Successful enough to have 24 on their teenboard. Thse kids probably have alot of friends and family...
John Green blog written by... John Green!
Recently he was communicating with his brother solely through videologs and there is a link to the vlogbrothers blog (vlog?)
He has devoted fans. and some who aren't very nice so, all in all, I'd say his blog gets around.
Imprints
Harlequin Teen - romance, of course.
Lots of fantasy stuff and a bit of dysfunctional or family tragedy stuff.
Happy endings are key and doesn't look like that's going away anytime soon.
MacMillan - History remains popular.
Classics, still going strong.
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