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20369913 No.20369913 [Reply] [Original]

Is there still a market for slashers aimed at YA?

Seems like something I could write, albeit not as prolifically as pic related

>> No.20369955

>>20369913
>Is there still a market for slashers aimed at YA?
No, why would there be.

>> No.20369994

>>20369913
Seems like what's more popular now are stories focused on social issues, and the supernatural, but I'm no expert. And neither of those things exclude thriller plots, many Fear Street stories featured supernatural elements.

>> No.20370037

I'd say so. Horror movies are still a successful film genre.

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>>20369913
>Is there still a market for slashers aimed at YA?

Yeah, Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield comes to mind. That seems to have sold pretty well, and there are plenty of YA books with other kinds of horror/thriller motifs.

He's someone with a long public trail of building a horror writing career, btw. You might learn something from him, and/or from the rather different path taken by Keith "Mountain Man" Blackmore, another successful self-made horror writer.

>> No.20370542

Ignore zoomer OPs.

Don't respond to zoomers.

>> No.20370608

>>20369913
Yes, write it like a script/dialogue, get someone to voice act the lines, or do it yourself if voice fits and they'll consoom it like a podcast. Horror is still really popular.

>> No.20370642

>>20370608
True, there's 100 youtubers/tiktokers making a living rehashing the same true crime/disaster/tragedy/missing persons stories.

>> No.20370870

>>20370235
>Yeah, Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield comes to mind. That seems to have sold pretty well,
I'm not sure how because that book was so bad. Like i knew what to expect with YA, but the blind could have seen the "plot twists"

>> No.20371713

>>20369913
No, that market died out a long time ago.

>> No.20371864

>>20369913
you're 42 years late to the party, and about 5 years late to the 80s revival, but if you could manage to stand out, you might rejuvenate a genre in its menopause cougar years.

>> No.20373126

>>20371713
>>20371864
YA books are burgeoning, including horror-themed (and in particular dystopian) YA. They are selling millions more books per year than they did 20 years ago.

YA fiction is flourishing.

https://www.thebalancecareers.com/the-young-adult-book-market-2799954

>> No.20373188

>>20373126
This is thanks to IG isnt it

>> No.20373429

>>20369955
>>20370542
>>20371713
>>20371864
Daily reminder to never listen to crabs in a bucket.

>> No.20373788

>>20369913
incel kino

>> No.20373983

>>20373788
Based

>> No.20374983

>>20373788
There's one with a serial killer who hates women cause his mom wasn't there to stop his dad from abusing him. So he goes from city to city strangling other teenagers, and the main character is this kind of fat girl who is so happy for the attention she dates him while thinking this other vagrant she flirts with her at her job is the killer after an FBI agent warns her. She survives getting strangled by faking her death which she achieved due to years of trombone playing allowing her to hold her breath. RL Stine is a genius.

>> No.20375036

>>20369913
I don’t see why not. A lot of YA books already feature murder and killing so I don’t think the violence would keep you.

>> No.20376021

>>20375036
Name a few.