| Re: Sci-fi for the teenage market
I'm interested in this too. Is the boundary between "Young Adult" and "Adult" fantasy that well defined? Knowing from personal experience I read material from both genres, and there's often quite a lot of overlap.
YA readers may not necessarily be "young adults" themselves, either. I've also read the likes of George Orwell and Stephen King when I was little...
At the moment I am working on a series that may also fit in the YA catagory. The protagonists, for instance, are all in their teens, and there are a number of aspects that have given the series a natural leaning towards the YA market.
Book lengths are a different issue though. K.T. (book one) is 92k words, and I am planning to extend it given the wide discussions on the subject. Book two looks to topple the 130k mark.
Perhaps I should post a few snippets of book one and two for people to judge for themselves?
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