Braidee Otto

like it's a little bit tied into the way that female fantasy authors used to, or like their work used to be always categorised as young adult, when really it should have been categorised as an adult kind of book.

But because it's written by women and because it kind of has a female protagonist, they're like, oh yeah, we'll just put this over in the young adult section.

And I think something very similar is kind of happening within the romantasy space because I'm seeing a lot of romantasy being categorised as new adult, which is kind of like this in-between kind of genre.

Yeah, so it's really interesting to see all of this play out and I'm glad that there are a lot of conversations kind of emerging about it online.

I don't think so.

Like I think in my mind I read a lot of adults so I kind of was looking at adult but then I think it's also there's a lot of maybe like a lot of misinformation but also not enough information online about what determines what genre it is because I know like for me my characters are like they're between 20 and 30 depending on which character you're looking at.

So that could fit within that.

the new adult or the adult, but then there's also the content that is in the story wouldn't be suitable for a younger audience to read.

So I think that's why I've landed with adult.

At the time of writing it, though, I was completely offline, so I wasn't really...

I suppose across everything that was out in the market.

Like at the time I was just kind of writing the story that I wanted to read and I wanted to tell.

And then at the end I was kind of like retrofitting things like genre and tropes and all of that.

So yeah,

I feel like it could fit somewhere between the new adult and the adult.

it's so important that people be able to pick and choose to read what they want I think yeah yeah and I mean like you know you go into a bookshop and nobody's going to be asking you for an ID to check your age if you're buying an adult book so I think like you know as long as it's categorized like new adult adult young adult correctly in terms of the content um people can choose what they want to read nobody wants to know what I was reading when I was 12 years old

Oh, we've all got those.

It was definitely not age appropriate, but there was no one standing there and telling me that I couldn't, so I did.

It was a three-year gap, me reading all the young adult titles, and then all of a sudden I was in the adult section at the library.

Yeah.