But, just as there’s people out there who can’t tell the difference between love and sex (Issac Hayes, I’m looking at you), there will certainly be publishers who will jump for the easy buck. My only hope is that they don’t taint this frontier too much before it has a chance to blossom into something amazing– a new voice for a desperate, regressing “kidult” generation.

My own book was going to be a “new adult” sort of thing, before I chopped it in half and ended it in high school, thereby making it a “YA contemporary fantasy” but the tone and language is still more mature than most YA books, so maybe it could still be labeled as “new adult”. I suppose these limits will find themselves, as the rules for the genre are eventually agreed upon.