Blowfish trotting off to YA literary fest on the South Bank: What they’re calling a ‘weekender’. Looking forward to the Dystopian Book Club and to doing something called ‘chilling’ in the reading den. It’s curated by young people living in London and is recommended for people under 25. Eek! Could maybe pass for 48… It’s odd when you look for YA festies online and you’re greeted with a whole raft of goodies from across the Atlantic. If I fancy a ‘weekender’ for YA lit and I’m

BTW: I love this from Chuck Wendig at www.terribleminds.com: IF YOU SAY THE WORD “GENRE,” I’M GOING TO TEAR GAS YOUR MOTHER Young Adult is not a genre. I hear that often — “the YA genre.” You’re wrong. Don’t call it that. Stop it. Young Adult is a proposed age range for those who wish to read a particular book. It is a demographic rather than an agglomeration of people who like to read stories about, say, Swashbuckling Dinosaur Princesses or Space Manatee Antiheroes or whatev