I didn’t catch the age of the cover models until I read your description and then went back, looking for cues, which is the wrong way for a cover to function. Showing people in an embrace - especially headless people, which takes away most age identifiers - is definitely going to hit the WRONG audience for this.
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In short, this is only a rough draft, and I need some advice on how to refine and caption it. romance, but the story’s a bit more mature (as in, it would probably get a PG-13 rating if it were a movie) and a lot longer (as in, slightly upward of 100,000 words) and more in-depth than any Y.A. As for the title and byline, I’m not quite sure what kind of lettering to use: see, I’m pitching this sort of like I would if it were a Y.A. You may notice I haven’t put this title or my byline on the cover yet, and the art’s a bit rough.Įxplanation: this being a first draft, I haven’t actually spent any money on higher-resolution copies of the stock images I used here yet. Title: I’m tentatively going with “Cooties” for now, though I’m open to suggestions. Target audience: anyone who likes “puppy love” romantic comedies like Melody (1971) or Little Manhattan (2005) or Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Twist: uh, did I mention these schoolkids are ELEMENTARY schoolkids, or that they’re, like, ten? (“But going on eleven!” they’ll tell anyone who looks askance at them and asks just how old they are when they say they’re dating.)
Will their love be able to overcome these obstacles, or was it never meant to be? Romance ensues, but they face some major hurdles to their getting together, as not everybody around them at their school and at home approves of their relationship. OK, so this is a pretty standard plot for a romantic comedy: schoolboy meets schoolgirl, schoolgirl likes schoolboy, schoolboy likes her back.