October Novel Prep Challenge

I'm intrigued about having a target market that includes young girls and grown women. If this book were to get published and had to be shelved somewhere on bookstore and library shelves, where would it go? In the tween books, where emerging independent readers are picking their own reading material, and where topics usually aren't as sophisticated as in teen books? Or in the adult books, which often deal with more sophisticated topics and are generally longer? It's impossible to be in both sections, and next to impossible to truly market to two extremely different markets.

Or, are you betting on mothers picking up their daughters' books and enjoying them? You made the comparison to Harry Potter. Harry Potter was marketed to tweens and teens (as it progresses through the books, it actually goes from middle grade reading to YA reading, as the storyline gets more complex and the adventures darker and scarier) but it just so happened to be one of those series that had a growing adult following, partly because parents read it with their kids. . .)

Also, when you approach an agent or publisher about this novel, you need to make sure that person accepts the genre you're writing in. Ultimately, where you book ends up on the shelf depends on how the publisher defines and markets it. So, I would urge you to think twice about having such broad parameters on your market. Even if you don't plan to have your series published now, how you write it should be influenced by who your ideal market is. Without knowing anything else about your series, I'm having a hard time imagining how your marketing would work.

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