The children's/YA label hung around my neck like a millstone and I really hated it. But as a label to stick on a book, I'm inclined to think that it does more harm than good, because people take it too literally.īecause YA fantasy is now a big deal, it's not nearly as much of a problem as it used to be 20 or 30 years ago when it was, I think, a bit of a nightmare.
I understand that some form of genre labeling is necessary for people who are in a hurry or people who don't themselves like fantasy and want to give a gift to a twelve-year-old niece or nephew. Is Huckleberry Finn a YA novel? I don't think so. What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly. I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made.
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