WSJ Tackles YA, Part 2...

I finally read the Wall Street Journal article on teen books thanks to Flux editor Andrew Karre who was nice enough to pass it along. I said previously that I'd offer an overview of the piece here, but why don't you just check out Andrew's blog--he's sums it up and offers his thoughts. (And you should bookmark his blog while you're there.)

An aside to the WSJ article which discusses the decision to publish certain books with young characters as adult books (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, for example) and not as YA--I interviewed Judy Blume several years ago as she was finishing up Summer Sisters. At the time, she said, her publisher had gone back and forth as to whether the book would be marketed as YA or adult. It was ultimately published as an adult book. That interview took place in 1997, so this discussion is certainly not a new one in the publishing world.