Out with the Young Adult Genre and in with the Old Adult Genre
I was looking up other genres than literary fiction to classify my book ' Eve ' when I came across a blog post that shared in my befuddlement and actually had a great reply! Goes to show, wisdom comes with age. A blogger had been asking how to market his book to old adults and was asking what they liked to read, and the response he got was so funny I almost lost my hat! The old man said, "What do ya think we like to read? We want to read books, good books." Obviously the questioner was a teenager as far as anyone could tell from the preposterous question. "We're people who have lived through all of the experiences that you have lived through and more," the man wrote, "so we've read what you have read and more. I think what you're asking is, what do people like to read?" The old timer had me at hello. After I read through the article I felt that I better understood the workings of the modern book era. Y...