HP's Genre Problem

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 803

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony Elizabeth" wrote:

> "I loved the MS.  However, you're going to have to start your 
> series out with the characters as adults.  Contemporary African
> American fiction *for adults* is hot right now--not teens.  You
> don't want to mark yourself as a juvenile author."  
>   (snip)
> I know one thing.  Just like Terry McMillan's *Waiting to Exhale* 
> proved that African American women actually bought books, HP proved 
> something that publishers never believed before:  adults will read 
> a book with protagonists who are not adults.

I've heard John Cheusse on ATC favorably reviewing some nvoels for 
adults that are about characters who are children. However, they all 
were about abuse of and monstrous evil done by said children, 
sounding to me from his description like LORD OF THE FLIES in 
suburbia, piling further weight on my conviction that I don't want 
anything to do with Literature-capital-L.

> Needless to say, I am still not published.

I am very sorry to hear this.