Granted, yes, but from a writer’s perspective, if this is a first response to *all* YA stories, it comes across less as a reaction to that story’s potential specifically and more as a particular agent’s reluctance to work with that genre/demographic.
I think I’d summarise it as: where the mainstream lacks diversity, then pragmatism to succeed *easily* as mainstream is going to count as erasure. There are diverse exceptions in the mainstream, but they get there because people fight to put them there.
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And I’m suggesting (or trying to) that we fight to put those diverse books where they will sell best, which might be as adult books. That’s all. Not sure I understand what you’re saying here.
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I’m saying that if some books aren’t sold or marketed as YA that the writer meant as YA, then some teens will be discouraged or prevented from accessing them, and if the difference between that book being YA and not isn’t based in content but ease of pitching, then that’s a loss.
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