Muse & the Marketplace 2019

If you’ve ever tried writing a child or teenager point of view, you may have heard people in your workshops stumble to categorize it. Who is this targeted towards? they might ask. What’s your audience? Kids? Teens? Adults? Sometimes even you aren’t sure; it’s just the thing you’re called to write. That’s great, for a while, but once you start thinking about agents or publishing you need to know the audience your book is meant for. It’s a more complicated question that you might think, but there are some rules to this game. Together, we’ll look at some published examples across the three categories to see what distinguishes them, and help you work towards committing to one shelf over the other in your own work. There will be a discussion and time for a Q&A.