Bonnier’s Five Mile bombshell fails to derail buoyant Bologna | The Bookseller

Though the news was a dampener for some fairgoers, most were enthusiastic about Bologna 2018. Skylark Literary co-founder Joanna Moult called the fair "buoyant", adding: "Submissions are better this year. The quality of the writing is better than it has been, so we are excited. Publishers are more interested, it seems, and everyone is in the mood to do deals-more so than [they were] in the second half of last year." Moult's fellow Skylark co-founder Amber Caravéo agreed: "We are starting to see more interest in YA. For a while it was all Middle Grade, Middle Grade, Middle Grade. Now people want to find good YA. There has been a sea change."