Help with genre
Posted: July 30th, 2012, 4:47 pm
So I am about 50k words into my roughly 80k word MS and I'm having a tough time focusing on the genre of my story...
The synopsis: Deep in the middle of nowhere lies a hotel/casino where my MC Martin loses everything. He loses his money, his girlfriends money, his bosses money, and struggles with the thought of ending it all. Before he does, he meets some nefarious characters in the hotel...other guests, people that work there, and ultimately ends up helping himself by helping them.
When I first started writing the book I paid little attention to the genre. I just enjoyed writing the story. Now that I'm almost beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I've started thinking about cover ideas (I'm going to self publish), editors I'd like to talk to, and of course what genre to list it under.
The majority of the characters age are in their late twenties, Martin is closer to his mid thirties. The story itself contains some mature content...too mature for YA. But then it is also supposed to be like a fun romp...so not too mature that it becomes a supers serious book.
I was on twitter recently and there was a discussion over NewAdult genre and I'm wondering if this would apply to me. I can assume the audience which would probably enjoy it the most would be New Adults (twenty through twenty nine) so would this classify me as NA? I did some research and most other NA books out there seem to be largely Fantasy or Romance...Mine's neither.
Should I even be concerning myself with this? Should I stop cruising Bransforums and Twitter all the time and get back to writing? Probably, but I'd still like to know.
The synopsis: Deep in the middle of nowhere lies a hotel/casino where my MC Martin loses everything. He loses his money, his girlfriends money, his bosses money, and struggles with the thought of ending it all. Before he does, he meets some nefarious characters in the hotel...other guests, people that work there, and ultimately ends up helping himself by helping them.
When I first started writing the book I paid little attention to the genre. I just enjoyed writing the story. Now that I'm almost beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I've started thinking about cover ideas (I'm going to self publish), editors I'd like to talk to, and of course what genre to list it under.
The majority of the characters age are in their late twenties, Martin is closer to his mid thirties. The story itself contains some mature content...too mature for YA. But then it is also supposed to be like a fun romp...so not too mature that it becomes a supers serious book.
I was on twitter recently and there was a discussion over NewAdult genre and I'm wondering if this would apply to me. I can assume the audience which would probably enjoy it the most would be New Adults (twenty through twenty nine) so would this classify me as NA? I did some research and most other NA books out there seem to be largely Fantasy or Romance...Mine's neither.
Should I even be concerning myself with this? Should I stop cruising Bransforums and Twitter all the time and get back to writing? Probably, but I'd still like to know.