Comments on: Will the powerful, large baby boomer demographic change popular culture?

By: Claude Nougat

Claude Nougat — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:42:10 +0000

I know, I already submitted the article! And I have plenty of photos, I do some photo-journalism on my blog and I’m a painter too (aside from writing fiction and non-fiction, remember I’m an economist – Columbia U. grad…oh well…)

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:37:05 +0000

Claude,

Terrific. Please check the Submission Guidelines on BoomerCafé.com. Photos are VERY important. You will find the correct email for submitting stories there.

David

By: Claude Nougat

Claude Nougat — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:34:42 +0000

Thanks David, that sounds good! As you have probably already discovered, I’m the author of a Baby Boomer novel, A Hook in the Sky. I just submitted an article to the Café today describing the rise of this new genre in broader, more historical terms than what I put into that comment here, and certainly with no references at all to my novel. I’m not good at all about pushing myself (LOL!) and I really believe that we’re on the threshold of a new genre in literature and that there will soon be a surge in BB novels! I thought it would be interesting to share that information with Café members.

Is it okay for me to follow-up so soon on the article submission with an excerpt of my novel?

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:25:29 +0000

Claude,

Please know that BoomerCafé.com invites baby boomer writers to share an excerpt on this site.

Thanks,

David

By: Claude Nougat

Claude Nougat — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:02:41 +0000

70 million baby boomers, indeed, that’s a lucrative market and a huge one! You talk – and rightly so – about movies…But many (if not most) of these movies are based on books. I predict the publishing industry will wake up to the phenomenon, albeit later than Hollywood (!)and we shall suddenly find ourselves in the middle of a Baby Boomer Literature wave, just like back in the 1960s/70s, when boomers left their teens behind, we had a surge of YA (Young Adults)novels!

The phenomenon has just started and for now, as pointed out by Professor Kelly, it is more focused on romance and building a second life/career rather than on dementia or Alzheimer. Which actually makes for pleasant reading and movies. Indeed, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has been such a success that a sequel is under development!

But more and more Baby Boomer novels are being produced these days: there’s a special thread in the Kindle Fora to list BB novels and a group was just started last month on GOODREADS to discuss BB novels. It’s already got some 50 members, many more friends and 16 BB novels are on its bookshelf, many from well-known, bestselling authors. A poll listing 8 BB novel titles is currently running to select a monthly BB novel for the Group to read and discuss, interacting with the author, in an attempt to better define what BB literature is all about.

For anyone interested in joining the debate, here’s the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/81261-baby-boomer-novels-a-new-genre.

Vote for the book of your choice (poll open till 14 December) and be the first of your friends to participate in the process of launching a new genre which, given the demographics, is likely to become as big a success as YA literature was some 40 years ago!

I’m looking forward to seeing you there, all of you members of this Café!

By: lorieeber

lorieeber — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:16:58 +0000

I predict that there will be more and more boomer-oriented movies. At some point, moviemakers will figure out that the boomers are a lucrative audience.