Josh Cole asked Tammara Webber:

What separates your fiction from the rest of the genre?

Tammara Webber Hi Joshua - I went back to school in my mid-30s to complete my BA in English Literature. I took a course in Young Adult Lit and fell in love with YA, but I wondered why there were so few books with main characters in the age range of the majority of my fellow students. By 2009, I was an undergrad academic advisor with two kids in college. I began writing the first book I published that year, well ahead of any widespread use of the term "New Adult." My MCs were 17, 18 and 20. (Upon publication in 2011, I classified the book as "Mature YA," and this held true for my first five books, which included Easy.) If nothing else, the fact that I spent years on a college campus, first in school and then in an advisory capacity, may make my viewpoint as an author a little different. (I worked on campus full-time from 19-22 putting my husband through school as well.) I don't view NA as sexed-up YA (as some media reports have termed it). I view it as YA-like with characters who are very much still coming-of-age, as anyone who works with college students or has college-aged children can attest. For me, sexuality is part of the story, not *the* story. That will always be true of anything I write.

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