Writing And Selling The Young Adult Novel
K L Going
Language: English
Pages: 250
ISBN: 1582975159
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Writing & Selling the YA Novel offers a complete lesson plan for writing and publishing fiction for teens. Structured like a day of high school, award-winning young adult novelist K.L. Going takes her students through every stage of YA writing.
Learn how the YA genre has developed in History class. Toss around ideas during Gym. Create authentic teen characters in "English class". Craft convincing plots during Lunch. Add it all up in Math as you learn about agents and contracts. Along the way you'll find plenty of "homework" exercises to help you hone your skills - as well as input from actual teen readers.
At the end of your school day, you'll have all the knowledge a young adult author needs to write a book that speaks to teen readers - and get it published.
your reader's view of the world you've created. his football coach. You could now write two scenes—one that takes place in a poor inner-city school where football is barely funded and therefore the coach is desperate for every player he can get, and another that takes place in a rich suburban environment where the football team always has the best, cleanest, newest equipment and the role of football player is reserved for the school's elite. You could choose a modern time period in which
the characters themselves might still be unaware of. Another book popular with teens that uses the omniscient point of view successfully is Douglas Adams's The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In this book the omniscient voice adds to the humor as the narrator jumps from the viewpoints of his characters—Arthur Dent, a muddled human being dragged into an adventure he wishes he wasn't having, Ford Prefect, an alien who was stranded on Earth for fifteen years posing as an out-of-work actor, and the
characters, that will affect your reader's ability to get drawn into the plot. Maybe part of the reason the main character doesn't come alive is because we never see her talking to anyone else and never get a sense of what she would say or how she'd interact with others. By adding more active scenes, suddenly her motivation becomes crystal clear. As the main character steps up to the plate, you'll find you're turning those pages with enthusiasm again. In a good book, everything is woven together
are almost always unbound, Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, black ink on white paper. By submitting something in a different format, you're not only failing to gain an advantage; you might be giving someone a reason to return your book unread. If an agent or editor does read your self-published book and likes it, you'll have questions to answer that you wouldn't have had to answer otherwise. During my time at Curtis Brown, Ltd., we sold one self-published book, in part due to the
numbers might stack up? Good agents should be able to negotiate back their fees and then some. They end up costing you nothing. And even if you do eventually pay them out of your profitable sales, the service they offer is an important one that's worth the money. Agents make sure your contract doesn't rope you into something you might later regret, and they will act as your advocate if you hit a bump in the publishing process, such as a disagreement with an editor, cover art you hate, or a change