Brooding Ya Hero

SOCIAL MEDIA SENSATION: @broodingYAhero started as a parody account on Twitter in February 2015 as a means of lovingly mocking the stereotype of the swoony, bad-boy love interest of young adult fiction. Since then, the accounts amassed a followership of over 45K, gaining around 1K new followers ever [...]
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SOCIAL MEDIA SENSATION: @broodingYAhero started as a parody account on Twitter in February 2015 as a means of lovingly mocking the stereotype of the swoony, bad-boy love interest of young adult fiction. Since then, the accounts amassed a followership of over 45K, gaining around 1K new followers every month Tweets regularly have 600 retweets and 40K likes per month.TUMBLR, TOO: An analogous Tumblr account has posts that have been shared over 20K times.BIG NAME FOLLOWING AND SUPPORT: Endorsements from Jodi Picoult, Stephanie Garber, Sandhya Menon, and Jessica Cluess are already in.A MEDIA PLATFORM TO LAUNCH FROM: Media coverage for the account has included MTV, Bustle, E! News Vogue. Cosmo, Buzzfeed, The Mary Sue and more.A BOOK FOR THE YA LOVER WITH CROSS-OVER APPEAL: Whether it's the target YA reader (12-18), or the YA writer who not-so-secretly consumes this age level like bonbons, DiRisio's tongue-in-cheek telling captures all the things we love about YA fiction, while prodding at all the cliches we love to hate and shedding light on the many areas in which the market still needs to improve.SAVVY MARKETING AUTHOR: DiRisio's background is in digital marketing. She'll bring her immense savvy and contacts to the promotion of this book.A STORY TO HOOK YOU AND INTERACTIVE COMPONENTS TO KEEP YOU ENGAGED: Featuring a light narrative of Broody's challenge to pen this tome in the face of opposition from his evil ex-girlfriend, and peppered with fun engaging content like teen mags, the book will include charts, quizzes, and even a cookie recipe, to keep readers hooked.The book will have select black and white illustrations by Linnea Gear throughout to enhance the material and keep the content engaging and fresh.