[conversation that stemmed from teaching English in secondary schools]

We are anxiously awaiting the next Young Adult series mega-hit

We still hasn’t gotten a series with the same level of impact like Harry Potter

Hunger Games came close, but it wasn’t nearly as long-lasting as the meteoric hit of HP

There’s something in the air, you know? And I think something big is coming soon

Here’s a list of things, both traditionally and modern, that will be necessary to fill that literary hole:

(what Y/A hits have always required)

1). Hook the readers in middle school

2). Adaption to the big screen, but the book has to get popular during that adaptation hype-train before release

3). Has to have huge world building that you can RP yourself into

4). The series has to start and end within the length of the reader’s engagement span (HP ran 1997-2007; HG 2008-2010; PJ 2005-2009) probably 4 years max to keep the first wave reading till the end

(what Y/A will require now in the 2020’s)

Some sort of social media component -

a). maybe released in smaller pieces digitally
b). multimodal from the start
c). huge author social media presence