Young Adult

Lessons Learned Switching to YA

Posted by Our Special Guest | Mar 9, 2022

Keeping It Clean: How to Avoid Swearing When Your ...

Posted by Laura DiSilverio | Jan 25, 2019

Paying it Forward with YA Fiction

by Our Special Guest | Nov 21, 2018 | Life, Young Adult

Through fiction writing, author Claire Needell’s attempts to repay a lifesaving debt to trailblazing YA authors.

Using YA Secrets to Unleash Adult Fiction

by Our Special Guest | Oct 5, 2018 | Young Adult

By writing YA fiction, Eileen Goudge learned the “dirty little secret” to writing adult fiction.

Revising Your Attitude about Revision

by Our Special Guest | Aug 31, 2018 | Craft, Young Adult

Revision is more than changing “happy” to “glad,” or correcting a few comma splices. It can require tearing your novel apart, finding a new focus, and rewriting from scratch. If the book is important enough to you, as Mariko Tatsumoto’s was to her, you’ll put in the necessary work to take your novel from okay to important.

Writing for T(w)eens: A Beginner’s Guide

by Our Special Guest | Jul 30, 2018 | Young Adult

Interested in writing for tweens or teens but don’t know the difference between middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) fiction? Middle grade writer F.T. (Fleur) Bradley gives pointers on crafting an engaging MG novel that will delight tweens (and the people who buy books for them).

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