I was going to say I love YA too but I think it's really that I don't disriminate on the basis of genre. If a book catches my eye I don't check to see what section I'm in before I pick it up and start reading.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Laga - Apr 17, 2009 1:59:25 pm PDT #1427 of 6690
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Gudanov - Apr 17, 2009 2:01:54 pm PDT #1428 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov - Apr 17, 2009 2:04:10 pm PDT #1429 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
And she STILL didn't give up, asking if I really thought that a YA novel could compete on the same playing field as an adult novel.
Good is good. I like Harry Potter a lot better than a lot of adult section fantasy and that's in the Juvenile section of the library.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2009 2:11:06 pm PDT #1430 of 6690
brillig
I like Harry Potter a lot better than a lot of adult section fantasy and that's in the Juvenile section of the library.
Plus it's easier to elbow the kids out of the way when the last copy in the library gets put back out on the shelves.
Barb - Apr 17, 2009 2:28:34 pm PDT #1431 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Has she never heard of Jacob I Have Loved or The Chocolate War or The Outsiders?
Not if they came after she ceased being a "young adult."
I had to smack her over the head with the explanation that "young adult" as it's used right now, is primarily a market construct. I mean, when The Outsiders came out forty years ago, there was no such genre as young adult. It was either a children's book or it was shelved with general fiction.
I mean, I'm trying to think of when I first became aware of "young adult" as its own genre-- maybe some of our librarians can weigh in on this one-- I somehow have a sneaking suspicion that the libraries were on the forefront of separating out books designed specifically for the teen market.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2009 2:33:48 pm PDT #1432 of 6690
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm 35, and when I was 12-ish, there was a YA section in my local library. For what that's worth.
Amy - Apr 17, 2009 2:54:58 pm PDT #1433 of 6690
Because books.
I don't remember a YA section in our library when I was that age -- under 12, I mean -- but I'm 42, so. And it was a smallish library. But I DO remember some books being in a teen section of the bookstores then.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2009 3:06:08 pm PDT #1434 of 6690
brillig
Bah. It's been a slow day at work, and the muse stirred her head. I opened a screen to write in--and the clients started showing up. It's a freaking conspiracy.
erikaj - Apr 17, 2009 3:19:24 pm PDT #1435 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
As a lowly mystery writer, I've got two words for her and one of them begins with "F--- Agents are human, too(allegedly at least):) and if the letter attached to the greatest ms in the history of ever sounded as whiny as that, I'd pass.
Barb - Apr 17, 2009 3:20:19 pm PDT #1436 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
if the letter attached to the greatest ms in the history of ever sounded as whiny as that, I'd pass.
BWAH!