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So I've been waffling for a long time on how to market my current book. The characters are all in their early 20s, which at its most basic definition places this in New Adult. I would like to market it as NA, since my target audience is college aged readers. However, a major expectation that a lot of people have with New Adult books is some explicit sex, which my book does not have (and I have no interest in adding it, as it doesn't work with the plot). I don't think I want to market it as adult because it has themes that are very YA/NA (eg. figuring out your place in the world as a young person). Do you think readers will be upset if I advertise it as NA and then there's no spiciness? Should I just call it Young Adult instead?