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at this whole tweet, but the idea that SFF *in particular* doesn’t need to be YA is just, like... what??https://twitter.com/hannahnpbowman/status/1134534824310390784 …
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To put it in comparative terms, if a male agent had tweeted that women’s fiction was largely unsaleable and that it was better to look for cross-market appeal by asking if those stories should be more male-centric, I think you’d see the issue with the premise.
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I do, although I don’t think the situations are exactly comparable. But yes, I was giving the kind of advice I would give a client: “this seems to me likely to be harder to sell as YA. Could it be adult which would be easier, or does it ‘need’ to remain YA?”
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I am reluctant to work in the YA category, for various reasons, one of which is that the market is crowded in ways that concern me. Also that the books most successful don’t seem to be the kinda of stories I represent so it’s not the right fit.
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See, I think this makes more sense: it’s not your bag, and that’s fine! But that seems different to YA itself having issues.
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