Beyond the Vampire and On to the End of the World

As the market for books for young adults and the YA fiction continues to boom, new trends are emerging that go beyond the vampire story. Teens nowadays have a good amount of disposable income—and they’re spending it on young adult books, from the young adult fantasy adventure romance genre and Harlequin romance style novels for young adults to post apocalyptic books like the Save the Pearls series. Every book publishing company, whether an independent publishing group or small publishing company, is paying attention.

As the popularity of the vampire and young adult fantasy soared, many writers scrambled to approach every small publishing company of young adult novels to submit their take on the genre. But are teens and the market for young adult books just interested in reading books for young adults that are about wizards and vampire romances? What the independent publishing world is now witnessing, including Sand Dollar Press, is a greater fascination with the world of post apocalyptic books and fiction geared around a romantic apocalypse.

Many an independent publishing company is focusing their search on post-apocalyptic fiction as a growing favorite among young adult novels. The range of themes is broad, and this style may include elements of young adult fantasy, though it no longer has to be based in the supernatural or paranormal. These novels for young adults tend to center around societies in ruins due to the failures of adults in a sci-fi setting—often with a sense of impending romantic apocalypse. The youthful protagonists may have the power to save the world, just like Eden Newman in the Save the Pearls series, published by Sand Dollar Press, an independent publishing company.

It seems like a small book publishing company should search for a range of Harlequin romance fiction and young adult fantasy adventure romance novels to post apocalyptic books.