{"id":924,"date":"2012-09-13T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:36:09","slug":"wait-so-is-this-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Wait. So, is this a GOOD thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--26P27D0xt0\/UFJPRy3o2yI\/AAAAAAAACxc\/J72ResbO0dc\/s1600\/Adult%2BReaders%2BTeen%2BBooks.png\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/AdultReadersTeenBooks.png\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/childrens\/childrens-industry-news\/article\/53937-new-study-55-of-ya-books-bought-by-adults.html\" target= _blank>PW reports that 55%<\/a> of YA novels are purchased by adults.<\/p>\n<p>In a way? Old news. Who has the list of birthdays and such? Mom and Dad. Who buy you books? Mom and Dad. And Grandma. And your Book Auntie. However, this piece points out that 28% of that 55% were buying for themselves. It&#8217;s a trend we&#8217;ve seen, but I&#8217;m kind of wondering if there are enough adults to actually tip some kind of scales in the YA department. I mean, are the adult readers influencing what kind of lit is written? Gatekeepers already compose such a huge part of how young adult literature is published, and we have an idealized version of teen and young adulthood to contend with from misty, water-colored memories of some of our gatekeepers. Short of having only sixteen-year-olds allowed to pen epics for others of their tribe, is there any way to avoid too much adult cross-pollination?<\/p>\n<p>Just some thinks to think on a Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/wakingbraincells.com\/2012\/09\/13\/55-of-ya-books-purchased-by-adults\/\" target= _blank>Tash<\/a> for the linkage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PW reports that 55% of YA novels are purchased by adults. In a way? Old news. Who has the list of birthdays and such?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7242,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}