May 25 2013
Dear Ms. Lynn: I’m beginning to think there was a secret ceremony attended by a bunch of NA novelists at which they all swore on a copy of first edition of Twilight to include at least six of the following plot points in their books: 1) the heroine must be, in some way, socially awkward or(…)
May 23 2013
Dear Ms. Sorenson: They first introduction to work with the self published title, “The Secret of Ella and Micha.” I found the writing to be a little problematic and thus I didn’t pick up The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden when it was released or when it was purchased by Grand Central for republication. However,(…)
May 17 2013
Amazon.com: New Adult & College: Kindle Store – Amazon rolled out a few new categories to its bookstore yesterday including New Adult & College and Sports filed under Romance. I think this is a great start and I’m glad to see Amazon move away from the BISAC codes to be more responsive to the consumers. (…)
May 15 2013
Note: The comments are closed for this review. I’d direct you to the Dear Author Book Club pick for May for centralization of comments. Dear Ms. McCarthy: Rory does one thing really well – school. Everything else, particularly the social scene and the interpersonal relationships with the opposite sex, she can’t quite grasp the nuances.(…)
Apr 26 2013
I came across this picture and this video while browsing Reddit. Rajesh Kumar Sharma founded a free school in the slums of India. Their schoolroom is a space under a bridge. Their blackboards are concrete walls. First world problems are anything that doesn’t include having to gain an education under a bridge in a(…)
Apr 24 2013
Publishers Marketplace: The Latest Deals – Publishers Marketplace quietly added a new category to its Deals listing: New Adult. The change did not go unnoticed and some people (agents in some cases I guess) reacted very unhappily, not unlike some readers here at Dear Author. Apparently New Adult must have killed someone’s parents (historical mama(…)
Apr 9 2013
Dear Ms. Evans: When Jane contacted me and said that there was a new book coming out with an underground fighter hero, I immediately requested the book. I love fighters, and the high stakes physicality of them. Your new book, Real, features Remington Tate, a disgraced boxer, who now is fighting on the Underground circuit,(…)
Apr 7 2013
Apr 1 2013
I’m a big fan of New Adult books and so I was excited when Berkley sent me True by Erin McCarthy to read ( A | BN | K | S ). It captured the zeitgeist of the New Adult genre with the college age protagonists and their attempts to not only discover their(…)
Mar 29 2013
Dear Ms. Bale: This new adult book told in alternating first person from Georgia and Ben Lancaster’s points of view. Georgia King is a 20-year-old who is three months off of a suicide attempt trying to cope outside of her mental hospital. She is living with her brother and struggling with her medications. Her brother,(…)
Mar 28 2013
Dear Ms. Grey: Wow, do I like this book. Which surprises me because, prior to reading Take What You Want, your New Adult romance, I’d yet to encounter a NA that did much for me. I had thought I was either too old and cranky and/or too surrounded by actual New Adults to enjoy tales(…)
Mar 21 2013
“Hades and Persephone have a son, and he’s feeling trapped in the underworld. Bion’s one solace is his friend since childhood, Myrinne, a mortal girl who was adopted by Charon the Ferryman. When Myrinne is kidnapped during a jailbreak from the underworld, Bion’s rescue becomes a chance to experience life in the sunlit lands. He(…)
Mar 21 2013
The Fast-Track to Making a Million Dollars From Writing Books – This is what happens when people who don’t read the books try to define the genre. “The book is in a relatively new genre called “new adult contemporary” (read: it’s basically a mashup of romance and erotica — think Fifty Shades of Grey). Publishers(…)
Mar 20 2013
Dear Ms. Hall: There were moments in this book I was really captivated by the pain felt by the hero of the story but in between those emotionally charged spaces, I felt that you asked the reader to make too many jumps and that there may have been too many issues included that were never(…)
Feb 16 2013
Dear Ms. Snadowsky: I was intrigued by this book because the cover is clever, I’m a fan of the New Adult movement, and this book seemed to be right within those parameters. The tagline reads “eighteen-year-old Dominique explores the relationship between love and lust, and the friendships that see us through.” To be fair,(…)
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