My gut instinct to this was a resounding YES. Just write the thing and if it truly something you’re interested in pursuing, the question becomes how to pitch it and/or tweak it to make if truly FIT one genre over another. There is a “market” and audience interest for all 3 of these fantasy novel forms so I wouldn’t worry about it. If your fantasy novel deals with sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll and centers teen characters it would probably be YA. If your fantasy novel is a pure fantasy novel it would either be an (adult) fantasy novel or a middle grade fantasy novel. Middle grade novels TEND to center on children 8-12 and YA almost invariably centers on teens and young adults (duh), and adult novels tend to deal with adults… but nothing is mutually exclusive. YA is a genre/publishing category, not a reading level and not necessarily a question of the age of characters, either. Your middle grade novel or adult novel can still center on teens without being YA. YA is a new category specifically created to deal with “teen” issues, creating a market for an emerging set of teens in GenX and beyond who thought they were too “mature” to keep reading middle grade novels but based on the numerous failings of schooling as a whole simultaneously were not ready or interested in reading adult novels, which were too complex. Middle grade novels can be adult novels by the writing level, but with a child or teen at the center (basically every old timey/classic book written about a child fits into this category)… those are middle grade novels. But overall, my interests lie in adult books and middle grade novels. There are a few YA books I adore, but they tend to be ones written in prose or as epistolary novel or graphic novel form or have some other norm-breaking interest. Depending on what other YA content stuff your novel may explore (drugs, suicide, addiction, etc.), your book without romance or teen-specific drama would either be classified by a publisher as a middle grade novel or an adult novel. I’d assume that a fantasy novel centering on teens without a romance subplot would be classified as a “middle grade” fantasy novel. Just found this so I’m gonna copy and paste what I wrote to you separately in case it is of consequence to others…
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