The Witching Well

Posted By Ardellis on March 4, 2006

I’m reading a lot of writing and publishing blogs of late, because, well, I’m in a phase with my blog reading, and I seem to be coming across a lot of people who are writing/agenting/publishing YA books.

My question is this: How much of YA sales are actually to adults rather than kids?

I ask this because it occurs to me that when I was a teenager, and even when I was a late preteen, I passionately avoided reading anything that was supposed to be “for kids,” and it really seemed that most of my friends who read for pleasure did the same. Honestly, this was twenty-five to thirty years ago, but it was tragically unhip to be seen carrying around any book that was marketed for younger readers. Have YA books gotten more respectable in the age of Harry Potter? Or were all of the kids I knew just odd to prefer Steven King or Robert Heinlein to Judy Blume?

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