please allow me to introduce myself
So New Adult is a genre that is a) just being recognized, b) super duper 'in' right now, and c) kinda my jam. And probably a lot of your jams too, because it's the bridge between Young Adult and Adult Adult, the 20-somethings out of high school but still figuring out how to walk on their own two feet.
To make me more familiar with the genre, A friend in writing club suggested I read 'Losing It' by Cora Carmack. Which, I gotta tell you, READS LIKE FAN FICTION.
Sick of being the only virgin among her friends, Bliss Edwards decides the best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible - a one-night stand. But her plan turns out to be anything but simple when she freaks out and leaves a gorgeous guy alone and naked in her bed with an excuse that no one with half-a-brain would ever believe. And as if that weren't embarrassing enough, when she arrives for her first class of her last college semester, she recognizes her new theatre professor. She'd left him naked in her bed about 8 hours earlier
Each and every one of us has read this fic at some point in our lives. Maybe in more than one fandom. (maybe some of us have even written it.)
I haven't gotten very far in the book yet (I keep having to put it down because hoooboy is my second hand embarrassment acting up) but so far it's pretty decent! I mean the romance prose is a wee bit purple and she keeps having dramatic asides with herself, but eh! Nothing I haven't read in fic.
What I'm saying is, it's a really exciting time to be a book-lover in your 20s/30s. And a REALLY exciting time to be a novelist. (Hopefully.) And as always, it's a fantabulous time to be a fic reader. :DD
in other news: WHO ELSE IS WATCHING SLEEPY HOLLOW IS IT NOT THE BESTTT