Writing And Selling The Young Adult Novel
admin | Dec 02, 2009 | 5 comments
- ISBN13: 9781582975153
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This book takes readers through every stage of writing for the YA market. Aspiring writers and established authors hoping to move into this flourishing genre alike will find instruction on writing for this special audience as well as tips on getting published. The book covers everything from plot, setting, characters and dialogue to revision and approaching publishers.
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Writing And Selling The Young Adult Novel
Filed Under: Books Today
Somewhere in the detritus is the good advice to respect the YA reader, not to “write down” to the audience. Yet the author herself “writes down,” resorting to a hackneyed gimmick on which she structures the book. All she gives is a how-to for writing and selling any kind of book. So when the confused and embarrassed reader looks for specific, concrete guidelines on the teen market, its preferred content, etc., the offerings are too vague to be useful.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve always known that Charlie Byrd was a classically trained guitarist, but this album demonstrates that fact more clearly than any other I’m familiar with. It’s a beautiful Christmas album…and for those of us who like Christmas albums that are all carols, it’s perfect.
Rating: 5 / 5
K.L Going’s book is definitely useful–it sheds some light on the YA audience and industry, and acknowledges the pain and terror of writing. The book provides basic writing advice without getting bogged down with every element known to literature or writing.
Two complaints: First, throughout the book Going continually relies on “the Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘theme’ as….,” or whatever the Important Word is. Constantly. Isn’t that, umm, pretty rotten writing? Just thought a book about writing was sort of a bad place to use such cheap tricks.
Second, Going uses an obnoxiously labored metaphor of a school day to illustrate writing a book. It doesn’t work, it’s juvenile (our audience, perhaps, but not Going’s), and adds absolutely nothing to the informative value of the book. It’s just a gimick.
That said, not much is lost by these two mistakes. The book is still worth buying.
Rating: 3 / 5
Lots of excellent advice and examples specific to the YA genre, especially POV. A worthy purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5
I found this book to be very helpful and I think it will be useful for teens who want to write for other teens and for adults who want to write YA novels. There is a lot of information in here and its easy to find what your looking for. Plus it was not boring like so many how-to books. I know an adult who read this too and she liked it also.
Rating: 5 / 5