Saturday, May 19, 2012

Young adult fiction

  • The Year of the Gadfly, Jennifer Millers second book and first novel, seems informed by her career as a journalist and by the work that went into her acclaimed Inheriting the Holy Land.
  • (Atlantic Online)
  • With The Hunger Games movie coming out in March, the frenzy for young adult (YA) fiction has reached an all-time high.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Since the late 1990s, Cambridge author M.T. Anderson has been crafting smart, often dark books for teens that have drawn adult readers.
  • (WBUR)
  • So much of today's publishing industry, especially in the categories of young adult fiction and fantasy, is interested in the three-book deal. Trilogies reign; trilogies are the norm.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • When I set out to get blurbs for a young adult novel with fantasy elements that I sold development for an author steeped in roleplaying games and genre fiction — canonical critical acclaim.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Included in this year's Atlantic Book Awards were two Newfoundland Book Awards: The Ches Crosbie Barristers Fiction Award and The Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award.
  • (St. John's Telegram)
  • With the rising popularity of The Hunger Games, Young Adult dystopian fiction has emerged as a powerhouse genre.
  • (Examiner)
  • As a judge in this year's Costa Book Awards, I have spent the summer with the cream of fiction for children and young adults. Although such intensive Even in the spy and war books, adult males are hard to find.
  • (Daily Telegraph)

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