Finding a Market
Posted on June 20, 2010
Filed Under Writing Process - Panix, novels, submissions |
So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, especially after 6 rejections for Panix. I thought it was a pretty good query letter, but I don’t think the concept is thrilling agents. I know, I know my writing is still evolving, but I do want to sell a novel. I remember speaking with James Dashner at Conduit who said the hottest market is YA and that crossing age groups is nothing he’ll do for some time.
I talked to my married daughter who is a voracious reader. She said that YA is hot and female main characters draw in the full range of female readers from YA on up. My wife reads it and she’s… well let’s say she’s older than my daughter.
So, I’ve recast Bellian into a YA novel, but he needs to stay male. I’m thinking about my motes and meddles novel. Its tone is more appropriate, but it requires quite a bit of gender bending. So my approach will be to rewrite motes and meddles into a female MC as a YA. Luckily I’m only into it 30,000 words and I can still make the plot work with a young heroine.
My writing style just doesn’t come out dense enough for exclusively adults. I write with a bit more simplicity and my plotting is somewhat straightforward. So I’ll give it a try and see what happens.
I’m going to continue to query Panix to the rest of the agents on my list, but my next novel project will be Motes & Meddles. I put together a sample cover.
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