[ SECRET POST #1642 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1642 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 238 secrets from Secret Submission Post #235.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[zelda-dragon.livejournal.com]

"the YA section doesn't differentiate between genres"

I loved that so much! I don't browse the YA sections anymore - I tend to keep up with favorite authors and that's it now - but when I was actually, you know, a young adult, I could spend hours looking through all of the books and find something new every time. Having everything all mixed together like that is how I was introduced to fantasy books in the first place because it was right in front of me!

Some of the big generic bookstores around here have pretty decently sized F&SF section, but they're mostly what you mentioned before - LotR knockoffs and "new" vampire stuff.

[kathkin.livejournal.com]

It kind of bugs me that the adult section divides everything by genre, especially as they then tend to have a pretty heavy literary fiction/genre fiction distinction. I think that's partly why for years I didn't realise there was such a thing was adult fantasy. xD

Oh god, my bookshop has a subsection of F&SF purely for vampire fiction now. I have no idea if any of it is any good. It is fiarly decently sized, though - like I said, the bookshops in the city near where I grew up had it tucked in a corner and on the landing respectively, they seemed to want to make browsing as hard as possibly.

[tazthelemon.livejournal.com]

That's one of my favourite things about YA - as a writer, it's easier to write slipstream, rather than feeling FORCED to adhere to the archetypes and themes that are expected of 'your' genre.