I s2g Anne McCaffrey must have mixed up her How to Write Romantic Fantasy and How to Write Romance Novels notes at some point
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
Actually now that I think of it it is just about time now with the YA publishers all tying themselves up with drama for SF publishers to win the demo back with a neo-70s “wow I was how old when I read this?” romantic fantasy vogue starting with a blockbuster series about a girl who rises to power in a complex, highly political world with the aid of her fluid bonding-based psionic powers