Young Adult
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Good Websites
2015 MG and YA Debut Authors community of MG and YA authors debuting in 2015
Adventures in YA Publishing A website run by YA authors giving tips, running contests and giveaways, and other publishing information
DiversifYA site with tools for authors to include and promote diversity in their YA work
Adventures in YA Publishing A website run by YA authors giving tips, running contests and giveaways, and other publishing information
DiversifYA site with tools for authors to include and promote diversity in their YA work
DiversityinYA - celebrating diversity in YA
YA Lit site listing upcoming YA releases
YA Highway - YA writers celebrate YA books & provide writing and publishing tips
YA Reads reading recommendations for YA books
The Oral History Podcast - podcast examining the craft of writing about sex and romance in YA novels
The Oral History Podcast - podcast examining the craft of writing about sex and romance in YA novels
Resources
Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies
List of 200+ YA Agents with Links A huge list of 200 + agents and agencies looking for YA. List contains links and contact names blog by Sirra.
Just Write for Young Adults! Emma Walton Hamilton's 14 week course on writing YA
Secrets and Contradictions List of 200+ YA Agents with Links A huge list of 200 + agents and agencies looking for YA. List contains links and contact names blog by Sirra.
Just Write for Young Adults! Emma Walton Hamilton's 14 week course on writing YA
Good Articles
25 Things You Should Know About Young Adult Fiction
How to Write YA
The 8 Habits of Highly Successful YA Fiction Authors
How to Write YA
The 8 Habits of Highly Successful YA Fiction Authors
The Top Five Do's of Writing YA Lit
A Chat with Emma Dryden
How Do You Write for Teenagers?
Accidental Outdated Slang in YA
Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: Writing Edgy YA Part 1
Kid Lit Can, with Susan Hughes: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll, Writing Edgy YA Part 2
Why We Need YA Novels with Unlikeable Female Protagonists
The Key Differences Between Middle Grade vs. Young Adult
Ultimate Guide to Ya Fiction
Complexity in YA
What Am I Writing? Young Adult vs. Middle Grade
YA v. Adult: What's So Different Anyway?
Writing Realistic Teenagers in YA
What's Trending in YA: Library Edition
Writing a YA Thriller? Read These Books!
Verse Novels
Novels in Verse (list)
The Industry
21 Publishers Seeking Young Adult Manuscripts
Writing for Young Adults - A Look at the Numbers
The Key Differences Between Middle Grade vs. Young Adult
The Difference Between MG and YA
Craft Books
Writing Great YA, by Regina Brooks
The 21 Best YA Books for 2013
New Adult (NA)
New Adult Roundup of Links compiled by Deborah Halverson
Is it YA or NA?
Marketing
How to Promote a Young Adult Novel on Social Media
Verse Novels
Novels in Verse (list)
21 Publishers Seeking Young Adult Manuscripts
Writing for Young Adults - A Look at the Numbers
The Key Differences Between Middle Grade vs. Young Adult
The Difference Between MG and YA
Writing Great YA, by Regina Brooks
The 21 Best YA Books for 2013
New Adult (NA)
New Adult Roundup of Links compiled by Deborah Halverson
Is it YA or NA?
Marketing
How to Promote a Young Adult Novel on Social Media