101 Topic by penang

(41 replies, posted in Young Adult Writers)

A running record of Marketing ideas, including marketing sites that have had a positive impact on your sales.

Riffle - $22.50 - $25 (if used with TNBW discount code)
Thunderclap - Free (set up a campaign, get people to support you - Thunderclap it facebook group helps)
BookTweeters - $51 for 3 days of tweets (have other packages) gave a small boost
Booktweeter (not to be confused with booktweeters) - $5 package of 100 tweets spread out - waste of money
Facebook (paid ads per click) - you set the length of campaign and the daily or lifetime budget - Not worth it
The Fussy Librarian ($14) - Not worth it for a Sunday promo. Might try a different day of the week.

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102 Reply by penang

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njc wrote:

Question for Sol: When you make something available on 'the internet', does the reader have to click on something acknowledging that the work's copyright is held by the author?  If not, might any work made visible in that way later have its copyright challenged?  Does the site put up any warning to the author?

There is a note at the bottom of your posted writing that say copyrighted by you (your username)
Also, you don't have to make your work public to the internet. I have mine available only to my connections and groups. That way everyone who is a member of TNBW Premium can see it as well, but it's not just out there for anyone. (At least that is my understanding of how that works)

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103 Reply by penang

(21 replies, posted in Young Adult & New Adult)

Susan Stec wrote:

Also Ang, don't you think it is very important to tag your book properly when self publishing? I have had reviewers who tell me my Dead Girls YA series is NA just because of a bit of cussing and one very small scene sexual in nature. Yet they take my New Adult (Purgatory) series which has sex (not erotica), death, a hooker character, and some cussing, and have occasionally said it's borderline (what ever the hell that is) YA because it's not explicit enough.

I do think it is important to tag it in the blurb or tagline. Sometimes on Amazon I see very obvious erotica showing up on the Teen lists, or even non-romance books showing up on the romance lists. I guess people are trying to find new readers, but that will only get people frustrated that your book doesn't actually fit the genre they want to read.

Your example is exactly what I was saying about NA being so much harder to label, some people see it being about explicit sex/language, while others see it as the age of the characters or the experiences they face. I personally would put the Dead Girls series as mature YA.

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104 Reply by penang

(21 replies, posted in Young Adult & New Adult)

Crap I think I accidentally reported a post when I really meant to quote it!!!!

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105 Reply by penang

(21 replies, posted in Young Adult & New Adult)

Susan Stec wrote:

I wonder, since you have opened a YA group, should change this to just New Adult?

I think it's okay to keep this a crossover group smile

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106 Reply by penang

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I would join a romance group. I write mostly write YA, but have been thinking about working on a non-YA romance series. I also love reading romance smile

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107 Topic by penang

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I started a group for YA Writers. I know there's a group for YA/NA crossover and a kid's group, but as a purely YA writer I figured I'd see if anyone else was more of a YA only kind of writer smile Feel free to join and post!

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108 Topic by penang

(21 replies, posted in Young Adult & New Adult)

The YA and NA genres are relatively new categories of books. So what makes a YA book a YA book? What makes a NA book? I think answer the first question is much easier as it is the YA genre is a bit more established. 

YA - as defined by me smile
- main character is a teen
- deals with issues that teens typically deal with (leaving home, death, firsts -love, sex, etc., loss, self discovery, bullying, etc.) regardless of the fictional elements (paranormal, fantasy, sy-fy, historical, etc.)

NA is much harder to define. I have noticed that NA is simply a new title for erotica with twenty-something characters. Of the NA titles I've read the majority simply claim the NA label because their character is 21. Issues common to 18-22 year olds are rarely addressed (college, first job, first serious relationships). However, if the character's age is all that makes a YA book YA or NA a NA book, then a huge portion of romance and erotica are YA and NA.

How do you determine your book is YA or NA?

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109 Reply by penang

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Hey Sol, is there any way to get a feature that would sort the published books into some kind of order, such as alphabetical or by publication date. Right now everything is just mixed up and not even in the order it was added to the list. I also put the links to my other 3 books in the forum post on the old site and you posted that everything had been added that was in the thread, but they aren't appear here. Is it just taking time to catch up, or should I submit them to you again?

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110 Reply by penang

(12 replies, posted in Young Adult & New Adult)

I think we should just go with the flow smile

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111 Reply by penang

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I received an invite to a group from Susan Stec, and the message has a link to view group, but clicking on the link gives and error message: The requested URL /group-YA/New+Adult+crossover+-16 was not found on this server.

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112 Reply by penang

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I am sooooo excited that this has finally happened! Thank you for all of the hard work you put into updating the site and giving us the features we kept asking for!

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