Question: My New YA Halloween Novel!?
Confectioners look forward to two days a year more than any others!. Easter, and Halloween!. Candy is a cut throat business, and occasionally CEO's get a little too caught up in the game!. This Halloween Spooky Candies and Treats is unveiling their new special treat, The Costume in a Candy! But something has gone terribly wrong, and instead of changing the skin pigments of the children who eat them into fun animal and alien prints, it's turning the children into monsters!
Across the nation an army of trick or treating, flesh eating monster children are rampaging, and there is no cure except decapitation!. Join Jane and Steve as they battle the nation's youth to the death on All Hallow's Eve, in the new novel by The Vet, "Kids Are Evil Monsters!."
You think that's a good sales blurb for my new YA novel!? What do you think of the concept!? It should sell well right!? I'm think for ages 9 to 14!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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I think it's a wonderful concept!. I would have Jane and Steve use the children's heads to replace all the jack-o-lanterns that were vandalized by the children's older siblings!. It's always so sad to see a whole neighborhood's decor destroyed in that wanton manner!. Real heads would go far toward redress!.
Another thing I would do is to have some children escape and revert to appearing normal so that no one knows if their kids are really okay or not!. That way you're set up perfectly for an Easter sequel!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I think the story sounds orignal and interesting!. I would definitely read it, however I think the whole child-monster/death-by-decapitation thing is a bit mature for 9-11 year olds!. Most kids 13 and under get their books purchased by their parents, and I think most parents would balk at buying their kids a book about child decapitation!. I would suggest targeting a slightly older audience!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
Yes, I think it would be a good book, but unless you were going to work some more morals into it, I would say give it a lower age group!. Maybe 8 - 12!.
But if you work on the buisness side of it, you could make them seem like villans and show that power corrupts!. You could show that children get greedy on Halloween and you can use this as a allegory to show that!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
sounds like a great book but i would suggest ages 6 to 11 Www@QuestionHome@Com
Hey, the Vet!.
I was a long time gone!.
Re: this blurb!.!.!.did you write it!? Usually editors, publishers, reviewers and such 'monsters' as that take care of blurb-writing, at least they did when I was actively writing myself!.
So, what do I think you might do for your own sales blurb!?-- (and it's really the story, as you know, that is "the thing") --Check your punctuation!.
Example: 'Confectioners look forward to two days a year more than any other: Easter and Halloween!."
(Suggestion only, naturally!.)
Reading work out-loud often helps with punctuation-pondering!.
I think it's a kid's story rather than YA (have you read YAs lately!?!), and one thing I agree with you on!.!.!.
Many kids ARE 'evil monsters' on BOTH of the 'confectioner days' mentioned, once that sugar hits!. There truly is no stopping them, at least for a few hours!.
I never considered decapitation at those times, only some form of confinement!.
My own confinement, as in far away from sugar-kids!.
That never did work, at least for a number of years!. Hmm!.
Nice Halloween question!.
Short book!.
Glad you're at work!.
PS!. Still think careful satire such as you do can work for many ages!.!.!.Readers remember what satire is, don't they!? Geez, have I been gone too long!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Great idea!. It would become an immediate best seller!. I really like reader's idea of the set up for a sequel!. Why not go for a series!? (You may even get a movie deal out of it!)
One caution, though: you really have to make sure you keep the story within the realm of possibility!. I mean, Jane and Steve have to battle the ENTIRE nation's worth of youth!? To make it more realistic, you may want to consider limiting the area in which the "fight-to-the-death" takes place!. You don't want Jane and Steve spread too thin (this is the only potential problem area I see)!. If the youth reading the story think it's unrealistic, they may miss the moral completely!. Just a thought!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com