Marketing and publishing trends can be interesting. For the longest time, it seemed like fantasy written by women ended up being forced into YA. Over the last year or two, there have been quite a few novels that have been marketed as the adult debuts of YA authors. That cross over has always existed (I remember R.L. Stine’s first adult book) but for some of the novels, it’s hard to say what actually makes them adult. The Alchemy of Secrets was one example like that, […]