Gay YA literature and the wrath of the Internets

[owlmoose]

I had thoughts on the article about the agent who asked two authors to de-gay their YA novel (a story which has now come under dispute by the agent in question; my thoughts on the resulting pushback are best summed up in this tweet by Scott Westerfeld, but I digress). It turns out that renay also had thoughts, and we bounced those thoughts around and off each other, and we posted the results over on ladybusiness:

http://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/15574.html

Your thoughts on our thoughts welcome!

Comments

[owlmoose]

Definitely. And I find it disappointing that the agents made it into something personal, when the authors did such a good job of trying to keep the focus on the big picture, which is a real problem regardless of what may have happened in this particular instance.