W7: Not just for Teen Pt. 1 & 2

Week 7: Assignment 1 “What to Read Next”

Love, Love, Love this next reads flowchart from LPL (one of my awesome former libraries!!!). They have great people working there with exciting ideas. We have printed this document and now use it as RA for Teens at the Info Desk.
See how cool they are...here is a pic of a coozie I just receive from them, hehe! ( and some cats I traced. Don't look at the cats, just look at the coozie...Okay you can look at the cats, they are cool.)

 

 

Week 7: Assignment 2

Read any two of the following short articles. Post comments on your blog, and make comments on two colleagues’ blogs.

• New Adult: Needless Marketing-Speak Or Valued Subgenre? Publisher’s Weekly, Dec 14, 2012
• I totally agreed with this article, regardless of the marketing term the core readers/fans will find this genre and read it until their eyes bleed. The main concern for marketing-speak or labels is to make the moneys and bring in more new reads, to again make the moneys. I am all for introducing new readers to genres/authors they may have not know before or some they think are only for certain ages/types, but it really doesn't matter how catchy the term of the genre is, it matters that the books are meeting the readers appeal factors and that hopefully it is good writing.

• The Next Big Thing YALSA; The Hub, Oct 2012
• I enjoyed the 10 reasons why adults are reading more YA Books. For instance, several Adult Fic writers are writing new fiction for teens. Nostalgia, surprise, surprise. Trending themes like the paranormal/supernatural. Savvy marketing tools, for those who can't always think for themselves, I mean, need RA suggestions. And I don't know if they actually mentioned this, but just because the readers age out of YA range doesn't mean they stop reading those authors/books and seek out similar titles.

I also commented on Zeke W.'s Blog & Maureen R.'s blog posts.