megwrites

Yeah, I'm sure some (most?) of it is the marketing -- YA is a hot genre so any book that remotely qualifies is shelved there. I see some books in YA that I think might have otherwise gone into SF/F (or urban fantasy, which to me is a sub-genre of SF/F, not its own thing, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) or the general fiction section. This isn't always a bad thing, or I'd have less books to read.