Ok, I was curious after reading through this thread about the background to the name. I found this recent article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex...ing-trend.html. It was interesting to me, as I had not heard the term before or I hadn't paid attention to it.
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Sex in Young Adult fiction – a rising trend?
With the publication of one of the UK’s first ‘Steamy’ novels imminent, Alice Vincent reports on the rise of sex in Young Adult fiction and the readers who can't get enough.
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Steamies are better known in the trade as New Adult Fiction. The genre was coined in 2009 by the Manhattan publishing house St Martin’s Press to reflect a slightly older group of readers who were indulging in teen, or Young Adult, fiction. Goodreads.com, which has 14 million members, is an American social networking website built around users’ reading habits. They first noticed users labelling books as New Adult in May 2011, and since creating a New Adult genre page in September 2012, 14,000 titles – a 500 per cent increase in two years – have been listed as such.
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