YA Deals By The Numbers

Last month I broke down

YA deals from the past year by genre

. Per your suggestions, today we're looking at a few more statistics, including this very simple question: How many YA deals last year went to debut authors?

Interesting coincidence: The number of six-figure deals reported across all genres was also 17%.

I assume the majority of those unreported deals fall into the "nice" category. You can see, however, why I didn't bother breaking down deal size for debuts. There's just not enough data.

Another commenter wanted to know how deals broke down by size-- not monetarily, but by number of books sold.

Single deals still rule the school, although next time I'll try to break down single vs multi-book deals by genre, and I suspect we'll see some interesting trends.

Any other requests? :)

Disclaimers:

1. I'm terrible at math.

2. "Debut" includes only deals that specified such in their blurb.

3. Any deal that didn't specify two or more books sold was counted as a single title.

4. These figures were taken from Publisher's Marketplace deal reporting. I didn't download any statistics from their website.

   • I had a request for top YA agents and publishers, but those are stats PM provides, so graphing them would likely be a breach of my subscription terms.

   1. Some agents and editors choose not to list deals in Publisher's Marketplace, which means neither chart is a full representation of YA publishing.

   2. I haven't included the selling of foreign rights in these numbers.

   3. No really. My five-year-old is better at math than I am. I'm not exaggerating.

   4. Thanks for reading! :)