I've never been a reader of MG or YA novels. Not even when I was a kid or a teenager. I did read comics and I did watch cartoons as a kid. But I never read any of those kind of books. But since I started writing, a question occurred to me. Are YA and MG novels easier to write? And more importantly, are they easier to get published? Would authors like Stephanie Meyer and JK Rowling, (among countless others,) be published authors had they attempted to write adult fiction instead of fiction for kids and teens?
To be sure, they are very successful writers. But what would have happened had they attempted adult fiction? I wonder if they ever tried. I know of an author who wrote an adult novel first but couldn’t get it published. Then this author wrote an MG novel and bingo, a book deal.
But adult fiction is another baby. I think it is a LOT more difficult to get adult fiction published. I almost buckled and considered writing YA when my adult fictions weren’t picked up right away. I blogged about it a couple years ago. I’m glad I didn’t though. The way I see it, YA and especially MG are little more than cartoons in the form of books. And I’m not into cartoons anymore. I want to write the kind of books I want to read. Gritty realism is what I want to read. And that’s exactly what KILLER OF KILLERS and THE VASE are. Gritty and realistic. And not for kids. Or teens.
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