My Kind of New
Adult
By
Anna Cruise
So everyone knows New Adult is the thing in fiction
these days. Every author on the planet seems to be scrambling to put out a NA
title and for good reason: NA sells—insanely well. And NA readers are
loyal—they like your book, they want another. And another. And another.
I totally hopped on the NA band wagon. For me, it was a
no-brainer to make the leap from what I write under my other pen names to
writing New Adult. I've written YA and I've written “young” contemporary
romance—New Adult seemed to be a perfect complement to what I'd already been
writing for a couple of years.
But, it's funny. As I've written more—and read more—I've
come to realize that there seem to be sub-genres in the NA category;
specifically, when it comes to sex.
I'm no prude. My books have sex scenes. Steamy sex scenes.
What I do not write is erotica.
How do I differentiate? I have a couple of things that
trigger the difference between the two.
·
The story is predominately about sex between the
two (or three...or four) main characters. Honestly, I need a story that
is more than sex.
·
The sex in the book is over-the-top descriptive.
Again, steamy sex is awesome but if I start reading about how people's body
parts taste and/or kinky sex, that kind of crosses the line into erotica for
me.
·
The language used to describe the sex scenes is
graphic. Language never bothers me—ever—but certain words have much more of an
erotic connotation than others.
So there you have it.
My New Adult books have strong characters dealing with
real-life issues. There is always romance and, yep, there is always sex. But
mine don't stray into the erotica side of New Adult. And they probably never
will.
What they do have is good characters, strong plots, snappy
dialogue and steamy fun.
And I'm more than okay with that kind of New Adult.
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