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A quick question regarding Genre

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Slapdaddy:
 I never even considered YA. Interesting.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Starbeam on January 20, 2010, 01:53:26 PM ---Sounds possibly more along the lines of YA than genre.

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YA is a genre.

Starbeam:

--- Quote from: neurovore on January 20, 2010, 04:41:24 PM ---YA is a genre.

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Yeah; I just tend to differentiate because YA encompasses everything and isn't broken down into different genres of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, fiction, thriller, etc, like adult fiction tends to be.  Although that does tend to vary from store to store.

Kris_W:
Genre could easily be called 'Audience' or 'Sales Target'. It is really more important to marketing, rather than writing. As your story is about Young Adults you might be aiming at the YA audience. However, oddly enough, authors of almost all of the best selling YA novels do not claim to be writing for that group.

Bottom line - Write the book you need to write and don't worry about genre until you have the book finished, polished and ready to send to an agent. 

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Kris_W on January 20, 2010, 06:03:07 PM ---Bottom line - Write the book you need to write and don't worry about genre until you have the book finished, polished and ready to send to an agent. 

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..sort of.

To the extent that, well, if you are thinking it might be nice to sell to younger age groups at all, it's probably worth not having explicit sex or too much of a downer ending in there.

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