New Adult: Expanding Beyond the College Campus

New adult romance exploded on the scene a few years after St. Martin's Press ran a contest.  “Since twenty-somethings are devouring YA, St. Martin’s Press is seeking fiction similar to YA that can be published and marketed as adult—a sort of an “older YA” or “new adult” fiction.” Readers clamored for novels that described the college experience, first full-time jobs, and their first steamy adult romances as people hit their twenties.  NA authors delved deeply into issues such as Tammara Webber’s powerful exploration of abuse in “Easy”, but the novels were always set in college, the drama often occurring in dorms and fraternity parties.
As the new adult romance genre grows, it seems authors are eager to expand the parameters into new themes and settings outside of college walls. Interestingly, many readers of new adult (NA) are not even in their twenties, but all ages. After all, who doesn’t love to vicariously relive (or look forward to) those heady, passionate twenty-something years? That’s all the more reason to break out of narrow confines that squeeze the genre into limited pigeonholes, and breathe new life into NA.

Read the entire article in the October issue of InD'Tale magazine.

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