Yeah

... uh, that has just gotten really difficult.

And so obviously, there will always be those kids who are reading, who wanna read, like, the four-inch thick fantasy books, but, um, but more and more we've been hearing, you know, really short, accessible middle grade to keep those readers hooked into, you know, developing a lifelong love of reading.

So I feel like that's what we've heard most often in middle grade.

And then in YA, I feel like I keep waiting for the romantasy bubble to burst, and it's not.

Like, everyone, like, I was just looking at the bestseller list, and it's just so fantasy, like, romantasy heavy still.

And so we've been talking a lot here about, you know, what's next, like, looking beyond romantasy, like, trying to look ahead, and I'm not sure what that looks like yet.

We even publishing insiders struggle to get that crisp logline.