Where Have All The Young Men Gone?
You might as well hang this sign by the YA section in bookstores these days.
This morning on Twitter, Cindy Pon directed me to a very interesting discussion at Enchanted Inkpot about “boy books” and “girl books” in YA and why there seems to be a discrepancy between boy-oriented fiction and girl-oriented fiction.
The dearth of boy books in YA is an on-going discussion, with question of “Why aren’t there more boy books?” arising again and again.
The thing is, there are a lot of boy-oriented books, but they’re not being bought in the same numbers as girl-oriented ones.
