About You, The Reader

Once you hit highschool, you probably quit reading. The thrill of hounding the Teen section of the library and sifting through all of those upright spines until you found the sought-out title or happened upon a captivating cover. You’d shirk your chores and drown in 2-3 of those books weekly.

Then you grew a little older, highschool or college; you stopped visiting the Teen section and drifted away from reading altogether. Classic books were too bogged down with dated lingo that you would have to rewire your entire brain to read. And other adult books were and are intimidating and your peers weren’t and aren’t reading them either. Some of them were just boring and airy.

The expectations for adult reading take such a dramatic step that it discourages reading altogether. Stephen King, the King of Horror himself, had his writing analyzed and they found that an eighth-grade reading level was perfectly sufficient to keep the pages turning. So why do adult books need to be hard to read?

My stories are for the ones wanting to read something that’s not quite ‘adult’, but definitely a step out of the Teen Section. Though it was for a short time, the books I’ve written had me reading for the sake of reading once again. They’re the books I wished existed in my highschool and college years.