Patreonyms
Sep. 17th, 2015 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperance"You're not really writing YA, of course. I suppose it's middle grade."
Me, I always stumble over these divisions, because I didn't grow up with 'em - we used to read children's books, until we were let into the adult library at twelve (or until we started filching our elder brother's adult library books five years earlier), after which we read both children's and adult books, as indeed I still do.
But then I double-stumbled over this one, because I have not thought of the Crater School books in terms of writing for children at all. My only notion of an established market is the grown-ups I know who still love the Chalet School books. If kids these days read 'em at all, I struggle to imagine it.
So I was thinking about that; and then I thought no, what I'm actually doing? I'm writing the books Josephine M Bettany (first pupil of the Chalet School, and a proud authoress in her own right), Joey Bettany her own self would have written, if only she'd written science fiction. She'd have loved these.
And in related news, you yourself could be the very person to tip the Patreon project over the $50 mark. Might be a door prize there. Might want to hurry...
Me, I always stumble over these divisions, because I didn't grow up with 'em - we used to read children's books, until we were let into the adult library at twelve (or until we started filching our elder brother's adult library books five years earlier), after which we read both children's and adult books, as indeed I still do.
But then I double-stumbled over this one, because I have not thought of the Crater School books in terms of writing for children at all. My only notion of an established market is the grown-ups I know who still love the Chalet School books. If kids these days read 'em at all, I struggle to imagine it.
So I was thinking about that; and then I thought no, what I'm actually doing? I'm writing the books Josephine M Bettany (first pupil of the Chalet School, and a proud authoress in her own right), Joey Bettany her own self would have written, if only she'd written science fiction. She'd have loved these.
And in related news, you yourself could be the very person to tip the Patreon project over the $50 mark. Might be a door prize there. Might want to hurry...