After many months of researching, I have decided that there are many different ways to market the same piece of literature... At first, my story was based on high school students and I had planned on marketing it as YA. But the age bracket just wasn't right for the subject matter, so I re-wrote over half the novel to fit college students just about to graduate and embark on the journey of adulthood. This changed the genre to NA (New Adult for those of you who don't know what that is yet).
Here is where things get sticky...
My story has multiple components. For instance, a large part of the storyline is about things paranormal, and other parts (though they are in current times) are sci fi, and yet, these things do not make up the entire manuscript. What it is mainly about is a character's journey of self discovery. She is deciding who she wants to be in life. The only catch is that the paranormal and sci fi events help her in her choices.
Since the story is about the college student dealing with day to day life as well, falling in love, rejection, graduation, jobs, places to live, friendship, doesn't this also make it fit the mainstream fiction category?
HELP! :-)
Agents and books on writing classify my novel differently. Just depending on what they see in it... Does anyone have any ideas?
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