Writing Young Adult Fiction: An Editor’s Guide to Awesome YA.

I Write Young Adult Novels, and I Refuse to Apologize for It. “Yes, Adults Should be Embarrassed to Read Young Adult Books,” struck a nerve. Not only do I read YA, I also write it.

Josephine Goats is the author of twenty young adult novels: the nine-book Vampire Zombie Ville series, the four-book allegorical King Crawfish quadrilogy, the six-book Ghost Train Express epic, and Touchdown Carl and His Team of Friendship, his first and, to date, only unsuccessful publication.

How to Write a YA Novel.. In sixteen years as an editor of children’s and young adult books, I’ve worked with a wide range of authors — editing their novels, witnessing their methods.

Young-adult literature typically centers on teenagers. But while the publishing industry markets these books primarily to young adults, that’s not always who reads them.

A Closer Look At Word Counts for Young Adult Novels. When you take a closer look at recent data you can see that Young Adult novels vary in length anywhere from 25,000 - 100,000 words in length for many published authors. This just goes to show how there are no rules set in stone when it comes to length.

Winner of this year’s award for Young Adult Fiction, Five Feet Apart poses a heartbreaking question: Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant and Will Newman are discovering teenage love—the most potent kind of love—but due to hospital protocol, they’re prevented from getting within five feet of each other.

I tend to write novels in first person, because I love the intimacy of first person and it is the point of view that allows me to most deeply inhabit the protagonist’s voice.

Many publishers have created a new young adult category for ages 10-14, for books that bridge the gap between middle grade and young adult, and have designated novels with older themes as ages 15 and up. The story, rather than the character’s age, delineates the audience, as in Carolyn Coman’s What Jamie Saw (a 1996 Newbery Honor Book). The.

The best young-adult books provide a portal to characters and perspectives that simply aren't as readily available on the adult reading lists, and the passionate support for beloved titles and.

Young adult novels have spawned some of the greatest franchises in movie history, from Harry Potter to Twilight to The Hunger Games.But book adaptations are rarely good, and the gold rush of teen flicks in Hollywood has led movie studios to give the green light to some real duds, costing millions in box office revenue and disappointing young readers the world over.

In an unlikely combination of genres, UK-based hobby and games company Games Workshop is partnering with young adult authors to write novels aimed at the middle school crowd. The novels will be set in the notoriously bleak Warhammer universes - Fantasy and 40K, respectively - but will probably be a little bit lighter than fans of the tabletop.

The film adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel The Fault in Our Stars opened on Friday, which means that it’s time once again to argue whether adults have any business reading books written for kids. But here’s an observation: Many, if not most, of the essays and think pieces on the subject have been written by women. But what about the men who can’t get enough of John Green.