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For readers willing to suspend disbelief, Yancey's first novel for YAs is a white-knuckle, page-turning read.
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Rosemary, your question about whether YAs are aware that particular books are published as YA is an interesting one.
Putting the A in YA Roger Sutton 2006
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Over the same period when I was writing YAs I wrote three crime novels for adults.
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By then I felt I'd said all I wanted to in and to YAs.
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YAs, I think, permit this level of writing with wonder, a take-no-prisoners 'tude and not framed in bullshit some adult fiction carries.
Whither YA? Roger Sutton 2009
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I mean apparently, out of 775 YAs from last year, only 2%, TWO PERCENT had black boys or girls on the covers.
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Since I haven't read the book being reviewed (I loved Hoffman's Illumination Night but that's all I've read of her adult books, and I don't think her YAs are very good) I don't know if what the reviewer gave away was a "spoiler."
When writers attack! Roger Sutton 2009
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So: YAs are generally about young people - they're stories of becoming.
MIND MELD: Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too 2008
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AH: Right now, my YAs are all thrillers, which are so fun to write.
Reading Local Interview: April Henry - Reading Local: Portland 2010
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AH: YAs are shorter I normally aim for 50,000 words vs. 80,000 or 90,000 for the adult market, and as a result may have fewer suplots.
Reading Local Interview: April Henry - Reading Local: Portland 2010
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