Last week I read John Green’s new novel, The Fault in our Stars. This is not a review. After I had read the first twenty-one pages, I told my husband this was going to be the best book I’d read all year. A little while later I went to the bookstore and bought the hard [...]
Posts Tagged ‘YA’
YA or Adult? How to Tell Them Apart
Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, boy book, dystopia, girl book, narrative voice, POV, writing, YA on January 26, 2012 | 8 Comments »
I was talking to a new friend at Epic ConFusion about YA and the difficulties that many newcomers to the genre (especially those writers who started in adult markets) have in identifying it. This may be the reason why we keep getting these awful panels at sf/f cons that devolve into an hour-long discussion trying [...]
If you want to write YA, please read it too.
Posted in Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, Buffy, empathy, MG, Middle grade, reading, teens, writing, YA, Young Adult on December 1, 2011 | 11 Comments »
A friend of mine wrote me awhile back and asked me if I could write a post about resources for the YA writer. I’ll admit, I was stymied. In spite of the fact that I began writing in the YA genre, and as such it is my first true literary love, I realized I didn’t [...]
Not All Teens Are Whiny (or even snarky)
Posted in Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, Backbone Project, stereotypes, teen protagonist, teenagers, YA, YA novels, Young Adult on November 1, 2011 | 30 Comments »
I’m freshly back from the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, where, as expected, I had a lot of conversations about writing. And even some conversations about writing YA (aka teen fiction). At one point, I said, “One of the most critical things in a YA novel is to get the voice right.” And my [...]
Why I Write YA
Posted in Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, writing, YA on June 21, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Ooh, it’s reader question time! I adore good reader questions. Derek asks, “I’m rather curious about the distinction between YA and “regular”/adult fiction writing. What makes you prefer one over the other?” (He actually asked a couple other really good questions about YA too, but I’m going to save them for another post.) I have [...]
YA is different than MG.
Posted in Arts, Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, book love, children's books, MG, Middle grade, writing, YA, Young Adult on March 3, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I have noticed a lot of confusion in the speculative community about the difference between Young Adult (YA) fiction and Middle Grade (MG) fiction. Indeed, some people seem unaware that there is a difference, a problem with which I sympathize, since I had no idea about this myself until a few years ago. So I [...]
Reading YA as an Adult
Posted in Arts, tagged Amy Sundberg, books, female protag, forbidden love, John Hughes, love triangle, POV, reading, teen, YA, Young Adult on March 1, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I didn’t used to read much YA fiction (otherwise known as Young Adult, otherwise known as Teen). But once I decided that I wanted to write in the YA genre, I felt it behooved me to get to know the current marketplace a little better. So around two or two and a half years ago, [...]
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