{"id":10188,"date":"2013-01-04T12:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=10188"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:59:47","slug":"new-adult-romance-the-in-between-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/new-adult-romance-the-in-between-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Giveaway: New Adult Romance \u2013 The In-between Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\">Have you ever read a book that didn\u2019t seem to fit in either Young Adult (YA) or (Contemporary Romance) Adult fiction? It might have been about someone who has just moved out of home to go to college. Or someone who\u2019s just finished school and now is trying to prove herself in her first professional job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s not news anymore that young adult books are appealing to readers well beyond their teens. But is there a new genre that fits in between young adult titles and traditional adult fare? <strong>St Martin\u2019s Press<\/strong> coined the term called \u201cnew adult.\u201d While it seems to mean different things to different publishers, many agree that it\u2019s a group title for books that are more mature than young adult titles \u2013 a literary category that may serve as a stepping-stone for readers moving beyond the young adult genre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The transformation from child to adult doesn\u2019t happen overnight\u2014just ask as anyone who is a parent to a teenager. But the transition from teen to adult doesn\u2019t happen overnight either. There\u2019s a period of time where adulthood feels like playing house; fake. The expectations of and self-sufficiency are alien, and doesn\u2019t feel real. \u00a0New Adults are the people who have just begun to explore playing grown-up and playing house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Adult heroes and heroines are mostly likely in the range of 18 to 26 years old. College, first jobs, first relationships, there\u2019s a lot that can happen when you\u2019re 18-26, But the fact is, those same events feel very different at that age than they do at 12 or at 40. Kids and teens focus on the present, while adults draw on their past experience to inform their present and future decisions. New Adults are somewhere in between, the distinction might seem subtle, but it comes through crystal clear in the voice of New Adult fiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m excited about this growing trend. I was introduced to this genre when <a href=\"http:\/\/beverleykendall.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beverley Kendall<\/strong><\/a> started writing her New Adult book, <a href=\"http:\/\/beverleykendall.com\/wheninparis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>When In Paris<\/strong><\/a>\u2026, which I thoroughly enjoyed! I can\u2019t wait to read some other highly recommended and bestseller books:\u00a0 <strong>Easy<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/tammarawebber.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tamara Weber<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Slammed<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Hopeless<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/colleenhoover.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Coleen Hoover<\/strong><\/a>. So this genre kind of blends what I love most about both (contemporary) adult romance and YA together. 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