I'm working on a novel and I've just been rereading as I edit the close-to-final draft. I think it's lit spec fic, but at this stage it might fit best as YA. I'm a bit worried because I wanted it to be literary and if it's YA that's a (lower?) more pop - less critical, class of writing?
On Writing : Decisions, decisions - packaging/presentation by PolyD Flynt
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paul jennings, roald dahl, r. l. stine, diane hoh, the hobbit, narnia, harry harrison, the bromeliad trilogy - great company I keep tho
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Hey PolyD, this is Ashley from the Stage 32 team. I just wanted to let you know I moved your post from OTT & Transmedia to Authoring & Playwriting, as it fits much better there. Let me know if you have any questions, and all the best to you!
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I'm curious as to why you care how your novel gets categorized. I write hyper violent dystopian sci-fi that Amazon says is YA and all stores in the UK mark as "Mature readers only." Same story. Same words. And I couldn't care less. Buy my books, put your kids into therapy, I don't care. Just buy my books.
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Bill McCormick I love that. I guess it's my packaging mentality, I'm trying to get my stories as finished, the finished ones, into the suits who read them and make the decisions. I know my writer-self, and my critical-self. I'm still struggling with the packaging/presentation self. some agents, etc. won't read YA and some will and it's a entirely different kind of agent/reader. You're right I don't care how they're presented in the market. But I'm trying to position myself correctly for the right reader, so that when a professional reader reads it, I guess I'm not confusing them too much?
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or so much that they won't consider it
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I'm curious if you ever want to write something that isn't "hyper violent dystopian scifi" and if so how would you go about packaging it?
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PolyD Flynt my way of dealing with this, and it's not for everyone, was to come up with generic, but intriguing, covers that tied the titles together. Basically, you get the idea of what's inside without being beaten over the head with it.
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yeah that's cool!