Comments on: Word math

By: Meghan Ward

Meghan Ward — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:26:54 +0000

Kristan – Great guest post on GLA! I think my book qualified as New Adult, but I completely missed that contest. I hope they publish yours!
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By: Mike Chen

Mike Chen — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:54:29 +0000

I saw the first paragraph on GLA without realizing who it was. I thought “This sounds familiar”…duh! Nice guest post. Let’s hope NA takes off, for both of our sakes!
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By: Kristan

Kristan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:15:52 +0000

Daniell-
Thanks! I’m glad it resonated with you. And yeah, I write YA right now (other than Twenty-Somewhere) but lately I’ve been turning over a few NA ideas in my head…

Shelli-
Good question. The best answer I can give is what I wrote in the article: ideally it would get its own shelf (or shelves) but for now it will probably go wherever it best fits… So if it’s got a more literary voice, it will probably go in General Fiction. If it’s a scifi story, it will probably go in Scifi. Etc.

By: shelli johannes wells

shelli johannes wells — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:46:42 +0000

new adult is an interesting genre – where will it be shevled?

By: Daniell

Daniell — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:52:13 +0000

Hi Kristan!
I found you through the blog about New Adult, and I think it was great. That first paragraph about where home is to a young twenty-something was amazingly dead-on. Every sentence = me, lol. I can’t wait for New Adult (which I’d actually never heard of but just realized have always been looking for on book shelves) to find a place in Barnes and Noble. Maybe I’ll try my hand at writing NA someday (I write YA now).

PS – I live in Florida, and the forecast is calling for snow flurries tonight…I’m pretty excited.

By: Kristan

Kristan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:24:30 +0000

Jessica-
I made it here, and I’ll take 42, lol! That’s twice what it is in Cincy.

Dara-
Hi! Yeah, I thought about entering a real teen entry, but all my journals were at Houston-home instead of Cincinnati-home, so I had to do like usual and resort to fiction. ;P

Woot Dayton! A guy who is freelancing for the company I work for lives in north Dayton. We let him stay home today, hahaha.

By: Dara

Dara — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:38:40 +0000

Hey, I found you through Natalie Whipple’s blog. Your entry for Nathan’s contest was much better than mine! Mine was silly and loosely based off of one of my own journal entries from my teen years.

You live in Cincy? I’m up in Dayton. We got a little more than four inches here–here’s hoping your traveling went ok!
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By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:04:42 +0000

So I live in Houston and I just went for lunch and it was not bad at all. No more rain, no ice on the roads and a brisk 42 degrees. I hope you have a safe flight and enjoy your time in the great state of Texas!!!

Jessica
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By: Les

Les — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:03:50 +0000

I like word math, it's the only math I'm good at =) .-= • Recent post by Les: Vacation Overdose =-.

By: Kristan

Kristan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:36:52 +0000

Rachele-
Me too. Maybe I’m biased since I AM a New Adult, but I feel like this such an interesting and important time in life, and I would definitely enjoy reading more stories about it.

Eric-
Thanks. I don’t care that much about winning (that sounds worse than it’s supposed to) but deadlines always help motivate me.

Michelle-
Yeah, fortunately the wedding’s not until Sat, but as Maid of Honor I do have some things I need to do beforehand… :\