Do you think a youth sci fi novel girl oriented couls sell ?

tigrette
Do you think a youth sci fi novel girl oriented couls sell ?

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Apr 16, 2008 - 14 47

It's half high school angst / half sci fi.

Do you think girls wouls be into that?
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Veronica

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Apr 16, 2008 - 15 12

I think it would sell to both boys and girls, but it seems like the subject would attract more boys. However, there are some girls out there who enjoy reading things other than the fairly formula books for teenage girls who might enjoy this.

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Apr 17, 2008 - 08 59

thank your comments !

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Mai 6, 2008 - 17 47

Veronica wrote:
I think it would sell to both boys and girls, but it seems like the subject would attract more boys. However, there are some girls out there who enjoy reading things other than the fairly formula books for teenage girls who might enjoy this.

YES. I'm a 14-year-old girl. I DESPISE those "I'm popular, preppy and oh-so-hot!" girl books. I wish they would all fall into a burning abyss. (Save the parodies and the ones with comedy that actually end up being truly funny.)

I always end up reading "boy" books- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Alex Rider, The Thief, The Wind on Fire trilogy (read those if you haven't!), and basically all of the action-type books for YA.

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Mai 6, 2008 - 19 38

I think that could definitely work.

Scott Westerfeld's UGLIES series has been hugely popular with both boys and girls. Every time I go to the bookstore, I see more and more YA that could appeal to a large audience. I think it'll only become a bigger genre as time goes on.

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Mai 28, 2008 - 12 42

I think so. I've read science fiction that was clearly written for women (The Neanderthal Parallax, Time and Again)--plus feminist science fiction--and science fiction for teenage girls (Dancing With an Alien comes to mind right away). There's lots of shoujo manga (Japanese comics written for girls) that falls into the sci-fi category.

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Mai 29, 2008 - 09 17

Speaking as a gal who likes Sci-fi, if you kick out the ANGST, then yes, many gals would enjoy it. Just don't over-sexualize or over-butch your FMC and you'll be cool with the SF Ladies.

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I'll be working on a Sci-fi/Fantasy novel with a strong (but not butch) FMC, which will hopefully not melt into my other novels with strong young womem as MCs (used to writing MMCs, I guess it's from the video games I play).

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