It seems to me that “New Adult” has characters from 18 to 29. It’s people in a time period that is after the perceived safety and narrowness and intimacy of high school, and by intimacy I mean, having a physical place where everyone goes and shares lunch times and has common experiences of classrooms and lunch times. I say perceived, because that’s not always true
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YA librarian supreme Liz Burns in an illuminating School Library Journal blog post about the “new adult” genre, which really isn’t new, as in just-been-created. It just hasn’t been split off from YA lit and slapped with a name before, so it’s kinda like Soho (which used to be just “downtown” here in Manhattan).
It will interest some of you to know that Cloud partner Harlequin has a big stake in growing its new adult acquisitions. See Chelsea Cameron’s My Favorite Mistake (in Cloud, ISBN 9781459231283), originally self-published.
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