Using Zapier I setup a small service that saves tweets with the #PitMad hashtag into a free database at freemysqlhosting.net. As I was set up with a free service I was not afforded all the tweets, but over the course of 24 hours I was able to capture 4k pitches. Using this as my sample data, here some some counts by hashtag.
Hashtag | Description | Count |
---|---|---|
#PB | Picture Book | 230 |
#C | Children’s | 37 |
#CL | Children’sLit | 10 |
#MG | Middle Grade | 175 |
#YA | Young Adult | 616 |
#NA | New Adult | 88 |
#A | Adult | 378 |
#E | Erotica | 2 |
#F | Fantasy | 155 |
#H | Horror | 38 |
#M | Mystery | 45 |
#R | Romance | 39 |
#P | Paranormal | 24 |
#S | Suspense | 13 |
#T | Thriller | 42 |
#W | Westerns | 5 |
I did not remove duplicates, such as tweets there were RT'd.
What really throws me is the difference between young adult and mystery. Is this really where the market is at, or does everyone just see themselves as the big kids writer, while ignoring one of the hotter markets all together?
Eric can be found on Twitter at @elmwriting and at the TypeHammer podcast
Eric can be found on Twitter at @elmwriting and at the TypeHammer podcast
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