Writing And Selling The Young Adult Novel
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This guide walks aspiring writers through the craft and business of producing fiction for teenage readers. K.L. Going organizes the material like a school day, with each lesson tied to a different class: the history of the genre, brainstorming, building believable teen characters, shaping plots, and finally the practical world of agents and contracts.
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Readers are given assignments along the way to practise what they learn, and the book draws on feedback from actual young readers. By the end, the aim is for a writer to understand what makes a young adult novel work for its audience and how to bring a manuscript to publication.
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