Entertainment has changed over the decades and every decade has its own top performer. The new millennium, it was believed, would dent the reading appetite of the new generation as short videos and ready Internet accesses pervaded the scene. However, the success of YA books and Fantasy genre has proven this wrong. But writing to this new generation is very different from what most writers learn in School or other courses. In The Young Adult Writer’s Journey, Janet Schrader-Post and Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds give wannabe authors a step-by-step guide to write for this population and the very successful new genre.
The Young Adult Writer’s Journey – An Encyclopedia for YA Writers
Authors: Janet Schrader-Post, Elizabeth Fortin-Hinds
Hardcover: 234 pages
Publisher: Tell-Tale Publishing Group, LLC (November 8, 2018)
ISBN-10: 194405698X, 978-1944056988
The Young Adult Writer’s Journey
The Young Adult Writer’s Journey is an all-inclusive book on young adult fiction must-do, don’t do and how-to. If you want to write a young adult novel, you need to read this book first.
Coauthored by an award-winning YA author and an acquisitions editor, both experts on kids and what they like to read, this encyclopedia contains all you need to start or improve a career as a YA fiction author.
From an examination of the market, genre and its sub-genres, to mechanics and the business, everything is at your fingertips. This amazing writer’s resource is written in a relaxed and interesting style, with plenty of contemporary references and examples for clear understanding and easier application.
The Young Adult Writer’s Journey Book Review
Anyone who has ever tries to write a novel of novella faces many question about how to begin? You think you have an excellent idea set in the fantastic imaginary world where you hero and heroine is on a adventurous journey that you are sure to engross the reader.
But writing a successful novel involves much more than just an idea. The authors take you step-by-step journey where you are forced to ask relevant questions and widen you horizon about things you ought to ask.
Whether you are writing for the first time, or are a fairly successful author who wants to jump into a new genre, this YA writing guide will give you the information you want. It is important to analyze and know you audience before you can write something that they like. In the first couple of chapters, the authors give you a glimpse into the readers world and tell us what they like to read and the kind of prose they prefer to read.
For new writers, the authors deal with how to define your story universe and everything you must think of address before you actually begin writing your story.
But writing success is as much about getting you book out there are it is about the idea and the text. In the last part of the book, you will get more information about how to impress the agents and what they are looking for from authors. The book falls short on information about self-publishing or how to go on your own all the way, but then it is about writing YA for YA.
Overall, whether you are a new writer or someone looking to enter in writing for YA audience, this book has enough information to get you thinking in the right direction and prepare for your first YA book.