Maria Lewis

Here's 10.

Yeah.

And the thing about fantasy as a genre is it's one that just quietly chugs along.

You know, there are perceptions, I guess, that different genres have different trends, different upticks.

We're sort of on the tail end, I guess, of the young adult boom.

Like people consider that to be something that was at its apex around like the mid noughts and sort of towards getting towards 2010.

Right.

That's when young adult people perceive that to be at its peak.

And

It's kind of tailed off a little bit, but different genres have moments of popularity or resurgence.

True crime is probably maybe the dominant genre right now, although I'd argue true crime has always been something that people have been obsessed with, whether that's through Penny Dreadfuls or like tabloid Jack the Ripper stories.

But fantasy has just quietly chugged along forever.

It might necessarily be the genre that is always at the forefront of people's minds, but every publisher has something

not just like one fantasy wing, but usually a few.

They have a few different fantasy imprints, places like Orbed or Goliath or, you know, whatever, places that skewer towards one type of fantasy over another.

And it just kind of keeps the publishing industry chugging along.

I think fantasy and romance are probably...

two of the most consistently successful genres, but oftentimes don't necessarily get a lot of heat directed on them.

And I've often thought, oh, maybe is that because fantasy has a lot of female readers and so does romance, but also a lot of female authors.

But a lot of female authors within the fantasy genre will write under an acronym or like a gender neutral acronym.