What Makes YA YA?
May. 3rd, 2008 11:12 pmI've been busy working on the Tam Lin short story (tentatively titled "Don't Let Go") over here, and so don't have much to blog about (although I did recently visit a bookstore and followed
blue_succubus's example of photographing a display for a fellow blogger, whom I will post about when I have a cord that connects my camera phone to my computer). As you may have noticed, there was no guest blog yesterday; next week, if I still don't have a new one (there are several writers out there who have promised me entries, but I'm not sure when they'll come--writers are busy people, after all), I'll post a bit of Campbell or Tolkien, excerpting something about myth from one of their works, so that I don't entirely lose momentum.
In the mean time, there have been some great articles showing up about what makes a Young Adult novel in the YA category, one from Publishers Weekly featuring Sherman Alexie, and the other from Mirrorstone editor Stacy Whitman. Also courtesy
slwhitman comes a new John Scalzi Whatever entry on the YA vs. the adult market. These were all interesting to me, so I thought I'd share them.
And now, back to the Isle of Man.
In the mean time, there have been some great articles showing up about what makes a Young Adult novel in the YA category, one from Publishers Weekly featuring Sherman Alexie, and the other from Mirrorstone editor Stacy Whitman. Also courtesy
And now, back to the Isle of Man.