Interesting for those of you who write YA.

[Dawn Judd]

http://www.mommytracked.com/risa_green_marketing_ya_novel

[julieannfelicity]

Very interesting.  Thank you for posting that!

[M.R. Mathias]

I need that for my "The Adventurion" books...   JC Phelps put something up about them, but I am having no luck reaching the younger readers....   

Thats very cool, Thanks for sharing.   

[Joel Arnold]

Thanks for posting that, Dawn. (I hope to be releasing a YA book in the next month or so.)

[daveconifer]

She seems to lean more to Middle Grade but that can work too.  Maybe I'll see what I can do about adding a book to her shelf...

[LCEvans]

Nice article. Thanks. In my case, I'm raising a grandchild and sometimes I wonder if I'm being too strict because I was raised in a more conservative era. It's nice to know that there are moms who agree with my values and that kids' books that are lacking in sex and violence are still welcome. My children's book does have vampires, though not the kind the author of the article worries about.

Linda

[JoeMitchell]

It is an interesting post, but I don't think it's about YA books, really.  I might just have my own definition of what YA means, taking it literally.  Young Adults, as in 15-18 years old.  11 year olds, as much as they'd like to believe it, are far from adults.  Marketing to them needs a new name.

When I was a young adult, between the ages of 15-18, I read more books than any other time in my life.  I ripped through Steven King's novels and short stories, Piers Anthony, Jack London, Robert McCammon, S.E. Hinton, Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Robert Asprin, Tolkien, Zelazny, and others.  i found the books at the library, and at the mall bookstore, and neither of my parents ever had any part in it.  I read some of the books that my mother bought for herself to read, and I occasionally ordered books from book club ads in the TV guide.  I mostly took book recommendations from friends my own age, buying them with my own money or taking them out from the library.

Anyway, mommies buying books for their 11 and 12 year old daughters sounds very odd to me, and not what I would call 'Young Adult'.  Still, I see the value in the article, so thanks for posting.

[daveconifer]

Thanks for posting that, Dawn.  I just sent an email to Mommy asking if she'd consider adding eBully to the site bookshelf...

[Dawn Judd]

It is an interesting post, but I don't think it's about YA books, really.  I might just have my own definition of what YA means, taking it literally.  Young Adults, as in 15-18 years old.  11 year olds, as much as they'd like to believe it, are far from adults.  Marketing to them needs a new name.

That's true, and that's what I think when I think of YA.  I realize the author of the article was targeting a younger audience, but I also know that most of the books that my 14 and 17 year old kids read are ones that I have bought them.  Very rarely do they go buy their own books. (and maybe I should start making them buy their own! LOL)  And the ones they read that I didn't buy them, they got from the library.  So in some cases, it's true with older teens as well.

[Imogen Rose]

Thanks, Dawn!

[Victorine]

Good article.  Thanks for posting that!  I don't write YA but I might sometime in the future.  Actually, I like to think that my books would appeal to a younger audience, as well as an older audience.  I know I read books geared toward adults when I was younger.

Vicki