I wrote a YA fantasy series that explored the lives of young adults in a imaginary faith community. It was designed to give secular teens a view into the lives of religious teens, and give religious teens a chance to be the 'cool' ones. I totally failed in to find an agent who was interested. Now I'm planning to self-publish but I want to make sure I'm not cutting myself out of the market before I start.
When I thought it would be published by a mainstream publisher, I wrote the characters speaking as they would in real life. The secular ones use swear words (sparingly when I thought there was no way they would have said anything else) in one place they refer to drug use, it is assumed the main characters are sleeping together although not stated explicitly.
Is this going to prevent my book being read by Christian teens? (I'm not a Christian and in my own community such things would not be acceptable.)
Thanks for the help.
When I thought it would be published by a mainstream publisher, I wrote the characters speaking as they would in real life. The secular ones use swear words (sparingly when I thought there was no way they would have said anything else) in one place they refer to drug use, it is assumed the main characters are sleeping together although not stated explicitly.
Is this going to prevent my book being read by Christian teens? (I'm not a Christian and in my own community such things would not be acceptable.)
Thanks for the help.
