TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH no doubt deserves awards but it's not a YA book—published by adult publishers for an adult audience—and it is driving me nuts how many adult books win the lodestar YA because it continues to blur the age categories which is causing massive problems in kidlit 😭
You’re so right! It’s been awhile since I read that one and I didn’t even think about that. How frustrating — I know it’s a fan nomination process but clearly they need to figure out how to handle that. Maybe bump a book into the novel category if enough people nominate it in general. (Surely some people must have properly categorized it and nominated it for novel too?)
Yeah, I think they could just shift the categorizations, but then the people running the Hugos would also have to acknowledge actual YA books, a thing they seem sort of loathe to do given that how mad they get if you call it "the Hugo YA Award" instead of the Lodestar award.
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TO SHAPE A DRAGON'S BREATH no doubt deserves awards but it's not a YA book—published by adult publishers for an adult audience—and it is driving me nuts how many adult books win the lodestar YA because it continues to blur the age categories which is causing massive problems in kidlit 😭
You’re so right! It’s been awhile since I read that one and I didn’t even think about that. How frustrating — I know it’s a fan nomination process but clearly they need to figure out how to handle that. Maybe bump a book into the novel category if enough people nominate it in general. (Surely some people must have properly categorized it and nominated it for novel too?)
Yeah, I think they could just shift the categorizations, but then the people running the Hugos would also have to acknowledge actual YA books, a thing they seem sort of loathe to do given that how mad they get if you call it "the Hugo YA Award" instead of the Lodestar award.