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Now, I’m not going to go play with you and dare to assume that, if you’re a fan or writer or both of YA fiction you’re not reading Ally Carter’s blog, because you totes are, right? Right. But, just in case you haven’t checked in with Ally for a while, I wanted to alert you [...]

Theraquery

God, puns/portmanteaus with the word “query” in them are hard. Lesson learned! Anyway, you know how querying is the first step to getting an agent? Well, sometimes, despite how hard your project rocks or how good a writer you are, your query sucks. Don’t feel bad, so did mine, I’m pretty sure. But the very [...]

Done and overdone

Back in August, YA writer Joëlle Anthony compiled a pretty comprehensive, interesting list of things that are overused in young adult/children’s literature. I’d seen it before, but I came across it again today after it was linked from another blog, and I, of course, did what anybody with an unpublished YA manuscript would do: I [...]