I'm a 15 year old teenager. I am almost done with the first draft of my novel, and my intentions are to get it published, but I'm not certain of a few things. One of them is advertising. Apart from a blog, advertisments, posters, etc. I would like to know other effective methods of advertising. I was thinking of giving various local newspapers and magazine a copy of my book to review before its release. Secondly, do you think it would effect the sales of my novel if readers knew I was a teenager?
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I'm a teenage author. I have a question about advertising?
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When you get your book published by a real publishing house, you won't have to worry about advertising because the publishers have whole departments to do that. They'll do posters, web campaigns, getting it reviewed and so on. You may have to do some signings in book shops and things, but you won't be organising anything.
It does help with marketing if you're very young, how old are you? It's not so unusual for anyone over the age of 15 to have written a novel, any younger than that is impressive. But at the end of the day, whilst being young will be a good novelty your success will be all down to the story. But you knew that already. I just wouldn't make a big deal out of your age if I were you, leave it to everyone else.
It does help with marketing if you're very young, how old are you? It's not so unusual for anyone over the age of 15 to have written a novel, any younger than that is impressive. But at the end of the day, whilst being young will be a good novelty your success will be all down to the story. But you knew that already. I just wouldn't make a big deal out of your age if I were you, leave it to everyone else.
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Only if your novel is based on your own life, which allows it to be sold as "a true story of teens. Take a novel like Curtis Sittenfield's Prep. The age of the author is what got it picked up, as it is an honest, first person look at life in an eastern boarding school. So the author's age was an added value, provenance, if you will. The same goes for a number of other first person novels.
Now if you're writing a fictional novel aimed at an adult market, that isn't based on your life, such advertising will hurt you, as few adults will be attracted to a teen author. We know that the odds are against your novel being worth reading or to put it another way of being "novel." Outside of their own lives, teen authors rarely have much insight and usually draw heavily off the ideas and style of another author.
There are a number of exceptions to this rule, something non-fictional and local based has to be sold through local advertising.
Now if you're writing a fictional novel aimed at an adult market, that isn't based on your life, such advertising will hurt you, as few adults will be attracted to a teen author. We know that the odds are against your novel being worth reading or to put it another way of being "novel." Outside of their own lives, teen authors rarely have much insight and usually draw heavily off the ideas and style of another author.
There are a number of exceptions to this rule, something non-fictional and local based has to be sold through local advertising.
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Only if your novel is based on your own life, which allows it to be sold as "a true story of teens. Take a novel like Curtis Sittenfield's Prep. The age of the author is what got it picked up, as it is an honest, first person look at life in an eastern boarding school. So the author's age was an added value, provenance, if you will. The same goes for a number of other first person novels.
Now if you're writing a fictional novel aimed at an adult market, that isn't based on your life, such advertising will hurt you, as few adults will be attracted to a teen author. We know that the odds are against your novel being worth reading or to put it another way of being "novel." Outside of their own lives, teen authors rarely have much insight and usually draw heavily off the ideas and style of another author.
There are a number of exceptions to this rule, something non-fictional and local based has to be sold through local advertising.
Now if you're writing a fictional novel aimed at an adult market, that isn't based on your life, such advertising will hurt you, as few adults will be attracted to a teen author. We know that the odds are against your novel being worth reading or to put it another way of being "novel." Outside of their own lives, teen authors rarely have much insight and usually draw heavily off the ideas and style of another author.
There are a number of exceptions to this rule, something non-fictional and local based has to be sold through local advertising.