"And of course fan gatherings of a genre are about books and authors and people who love books, but in a different way. Hmm."
Yeah, I didn't phrase that well, did I? Well, I hadn't really thought it through. :)
I was more thinking (and this is pure speculation, having never been to a genre con) that part of the difference in our experiences may be that the people putting the panels together at your cons consider YA lit to be on the periphery of what fits in that particular con, while the cons I've been to have been about books (and other information holding stuff) in general, and so YA lit isn't really considered as non-mainstream.
The Festival has an entire stage for cooking demonstrations done by TV cooks that have published recipe books, fer crissakes. What idiot is going to question if YA lit is really worthy of discussion after putting that together?
Also, the YA librarians are the kewl kidz on teh block, if that idea can even be applied to librarians, so no self-respecting library con is going to diss YA lit. Noisy teens themselves, maybe. Gaming, sadly yes. But teen lit? no way.
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Yeah, I didn't phrase that well, did I? Well, I hadn't really thought it through. :)
I was more thinking (and this is pure speculation, having never been to a genre con) that part of the difference in our experiences may be that the people putting the panels together at your cons consider YA lit to be on the periphery of what fits in that particular con, while the cons I've been to have been about books (and other information holding stuff) in general, and so YA lit isn't really considered as non-mainstream.
The Festival has an entire stage for cooking demonstrations done by TV cooks that have published recipe books, fer crissakes. What idiot is going to question if YA lit is really worthy of discussion after putting that together?
Also, the YA librarians are the kewl kidz on teh block, if that idea can even be applied to librarians, so no self-respecting library con is going to diss YA lit. Noisy teens themselves, maybe. Gaming, sadly yes. But teen lit? no way.