Comments on: Stumbling into YA http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/11/stumbling-into-ya/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Kevin A. Lewis http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/11/stumbling-into-ya/comment-page-1/#comment-36912 Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:58:53 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9513#comment-36912 On a pure flashback level, I have to say I kind of miss the YA horror wave of ’87 to ’94 and the silly sleepover frisson of Fear Street, although even the bad stuff nowadays is usually a lot better written. This market collapsed after too many writers and publishers discovered that you really can blow the bottom out of the lowest common denominator, (and I’ll confess we made lots of fun of it at Borders where I worked at the time) and there are more than a few agencies that have yet to wake up and realize that YA is way more than just a downmarket sideshow these days. It’s also nice that the market now can adjust to an overload in stuff like dystopia and paranormal without going completely kaplooey like it did back then. If anybody recalls, that gloomy period was followed by aboput half a decade of nothing but studio-sponsered novelizations of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, etc., altough the powers that be devoted a couple of years to burning down the Middle Grade market in similar fashion. Ah, the bad old days…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/11/stumbling-into-ya/comment-page-1/#comment-36901 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:19:47 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9513#comment-36901 I have to say that YA is my favorite genre to write…. The emotions are much more “real” and “raw” as they are not corroded by our jaded experiences as adults. You can go back in time to those awkward moments, re-work them and sometimes even live vicariously through the characters you create. Kind of liberating to be truthful:-)

Thanks for posting this Jim and am so glad your happy accident helped create a solid platform for writers and readers in this genre:-)

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