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New Adult is a genre that only emerged within the last few years. It’s a genre where the protagonists and targeted audience are college-aged and, like Young Adult, is being crossed with many other genres. Jasmine Walt is a new author who writes Fantasy married with New Adult and doing extremely well at it! She’s currently ranked within the top 100 authors in Sci-Fi & Fantasy and Fantasy on Amazon. Did I mention she’s a new author?
About our Guest
Jasmine Walt is obsessed with books, chocolate, and sharp, pointy objects. Somehow, those three things melded together in her head and transformed into a desire to write. Usually fantastical stuff, with a healthy dose of action and romance. Jasmine’s characters are a little (okay, a lot) on the snarky side, and they swear, but they mean well. Even the villains sometimes.
When she’s not working on her next book, you can find Jasmine working on her dao sword form, spending time with family, or binge-watching superhero shows on Netflix.
Questions and topics discussed:
- How did you get into self-publishing?
- Tell us about your series and your universe?
- What is your definition of the New Adult genre?
- Are New Adult readers expecting and not expecting?
- sex scenes?
- Violence?
- You seemed to take off like a rocket with your very first release. Was that by design?
- What do you credit for the commercial success you’ve had?
- What was your presence on social media before your first book launch?
- How has publishing and promotions changed your involvement and your reach?
- How did you plan your launch.?
- What’s a typical writing day like for you?
- How do you have so much energy to write, promote, run competitions, get together for writer meetups (and probably a dozen other things)?
- What are the word counts for your books?
- How far in advance do you plan your books (outlines? General Idea? Pantsing?)
- why did you decide to write that amount?
- What’s a typical writing day like for you, and how far in advance do you plan your books (outlines? General Idea? Pantsing?)
- Who does your covers?
- How do you work with your graphic designer (i.e. What’s the process?)
- How did she find her writing partner?
- Question for Jasmine: Some UF authors have indicated that UF is a saturated market. Does she agree?
- Question for Jasmine: How long does she want her writing career to last–to X number of books published, to X dollar value earned, until she can’t write any more?
- Tell us about your latest boxset?
- Do you do any Facebook / Instagram / twitter / google ads? If so how much money a month are you spending on them? What’s your ROI?
- Do you do any Facebook / Instagram / twitter / google ads? If so how much money a month are you spending on them? What’s your ROI?
- Were you working with Rebecca Hamilton before your first book?
- When did you and Rebecca H. decide to work on a project together?
- How did you survive your unplanned night spent in Detroit?
- Why go to NINC? (Novelist’s INC)
Links and mentions:
- Hungry Author <– eBook advertising site
- Genre Crave <– eBook advertising site
- Judah Dobin <– Jasmine’s boyfriend who creates her covers. He’s a storyboard illustrator
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