Random question, you're the only person who allows anons and might know the answer so: any idea why and when fantasy became...
Random question, you're the only person who allows anons and might know the answer so: any idea why and when fantasy became 'young adult-y'? Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones, both of which started well before the modern YA boom, feel similar to YA in terms of character arcs and point of view and writing style, in a way that older stuff like the Chronicles of Amber or the Black Company don't. Was this one of the effects of the decline of the magazines?
Hm. I mean literary fiction made a thing of being “adult”, anything that trended youthful was going to be “genre”.
R.L. Stine was pretty thoroughly serving this audience from a horror angle, before either Harry Potter, Hunger Games, or Twilight, back when “YA” mostly conjured up Newbery and Caldecott-bait problem books