A children's author shares her strategies for promoting her picture books on Pinterest — as well as what
adult fiction marketing techniques haven't worked for her.
If juvenile books can bring the numbers closer to
the adult fiction market, indie juvenile sales will boom.
BookScan data indicates that the trilogy has captured twenty - five percent of
the adult fiction market in recent weeks.
The adult fiction market saw spectacular e-book growth in 2011, up from 2.8 % of purchases in the four weeks ending 26th December 2010 to 12.5 % in the four weeks to 27th November 2011.
Romance Writers of America, a nonprofit organization, reports that the romance genre makes up 13 percent of
the adult fiction market, with women comprising 84 percent of romance buyers.
Not exact matches
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fiction book format, including self - published, independents, small and medium publishing houses, in all genres whether for the children's or
adult market.
Centralized reporting of direct - from - author sales is tougher to come by, but by all anecdotal measures the independent
market has taken off, notably in the also - still - large category of
adult fiction.
Karen is specifically looking for literary and commercial
fiction, primarily for the
adult market.
And although I work mostly in children's literature, I want to talk today about how supplemental educational materials can assist in
marketing any book, be it geared toward
adults or children,
fiction or non-
fiction.
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Fiction Non-
Fiction — Creative Personal Growth Photography Poetry Reference Regional -
Fiction Regional — Non-
Fiction Religious — Christian Inspirational Religious — Christianity Religious — General Religious —
Fiction Religious — Non-
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Adult (12 - 18)
Fiction Young
Adult (12 - 18) Non-
Fiction
Random House Mondadori's divisions publish
adult and children's
fiction and nonfiction in print hardcover, trade, mass
market paperback, and ebook formats, with such imprints as Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo, Lumen, Mondadori, Debate, Sudamericana, Montena, Beascoa, and Rosa dels vents, among others.
Adult non-
fiction made the leap above juvenile
fiction to be the top selling genre in 2013, but that's to be expected since the kids»
market hasn't had another Hunger Games to fill that gap.
A bestseller at home in the U.K., he has written everything from speculative
fiction for
adults and teens to nonfiction books on digital
marketing.
Some surprising information from Nielsen Book Scan has showed that, not only has the young
adult genre grown by 24 % in the last year, but that 80 % of the
market for young
adult fiction is actually made up of
adult readers.
For indie authors trying to self - publish young
adult fiction and access the YA
market, physical copies are a must.
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My advice comes from my personal experiences on writing
fiction for
adult and teen
markets and what has worked for me.
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Fiction Juvenile Nonfiction LGBTQ
Fiction LGBTQ Nonfiction LGBT
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Adults Leadership Legal Thriller Literary
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According to the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group's annual survey, children and young
adult fiction have been the fastest growing category of ebooks in a
market worth $ 2.8 billion US.
Nearly one in five
adult fiction books purchased for women in June were from the 50 Shades Trilogy,» said Jo Henry, Director of Bowker
Market Research, a service of ProQuest affiliate Bowker.
Main
market segments of interest to the consumer: children's & young
adult, educational,
adult fiction & non-
fiction.
Main
market segments of interest to the consumer:
Fiction, Children's & Young
Adult, Practically Oriented Literature *, Teaching Books for Schools & Universities * hobbies, household and interior decoration, cooking, psychology, medicine, esoteric.
Italy has an English - language book
market worth over $ 3.1 Million USD Main
market segment of interest to the consumer: professional,
fiction, children's and young
adult
If you wrote a young
adult fiction,
market to young
adults.
One of the hottest topics in commercial
fiction is the New
Adult market.
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fiction is the New
Adult market.
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Barb writes romantic adventures for teens and
adults in the Christian
fiction and Mainstream
markets.
Popular genres in the
market will be young
adult fiction,
adult fiction, and fantasy.
Hyperion, founded in 1991, publishes general - interest
fiction and non-
fiction hardcover, trade, and mass -
market paperback books for
adults and includes the Voice, ABC Daytime Press, Hyperion East, and Miramax imprints.
Like the
adult book
market, YA
fiction has countless varieties and popularity waxes and wanes — coming of age in a distinct time and / or culture (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill A Mockingbird); drugs and gangs (Go Ask Alice, Rumblefish, The Outsiders), vampires and paranormal (the Twilight series), dystopian (the Hunger Games and Divergent series), contemporary (The Fault in Our Stars, Eleanor & Park).
In this workshop you will learn what young
adult fiction is, how it's more than just stories with younger characters, and how to successfully craft a novel aimed at the young
adult market.
Some
markets really require a high degree of specialization — science
fiction, for instance, or young
adult — and an agent who has never represented a book like yours before may not have the right contacts to be effective — even if that agent has a strong track record in other
markets.
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In a previous blog post I discussed a report that gave the following information about ebook
market shares: romance 16 %, paranormal 15 %, thriller 12 %, mystery 12 %, fantasy 8 %, science
fiction 7 %, young
adult 5 %, comedy 4 %.
If you want to learn more about
marketing YA
fiction, join the group I set up — the Young
Adult Author Alliance (over 750 writers already)-- and find out how you can leverage my platforms to get more traffic to your website or books.
Cast of Wonders is a young
adult short
fiction market, open to stories up to 6,000 words in length.
After years of helping authors design, publish and
market their books, in 2016 I'm focused on publishing my own young
adult fiction.
Random House Mondadori's divisions publish
adult and children's
fiction and nonfiction in print hardcover, trade and mass
market paperback, and e-book formats with such imprints as Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo, Lumen, Mondadori, Debate, Sudamericana, Montena, Beascoa y Rosa dels vents, among others.