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The
Young Adult Writer’s Journey
Elizabeth
Fortin-Hinds and Janet Schrader-Post
Genre: Nonfiction Reference
Publisher: Tell-Tale Publishing
Group
Date of Publication: November 23,
3018
ISBN: 978-1-944056-98-8
ASIN: B07K3VZ2ZK,
Number of pages: 232
Word Count: 60,000
Tagline: An Encyclopedia for YA
Writers
Book Description:
Finally, an all-inclusive book on
young adult fiction must-do, don’t do and how-to. If you want to write a young
adult novel, you need to read this book first. Coauthored by an award-winning
YA author and an acquisitions editor, both experts on kids and what they like
to read, this encyclopedia contains all you need to start or improve a career
as a YA fiction author.
From an examination of the
market, genre and its sub-genres, to mechanics and the business, everything is
at your fingertips. This amazing writer’s resource is written in a relaxed and
interesting style, with plenty of contemporary references and examples for
clear understanding and easier application.
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/QVcMaGh7cng
Praise:
"The Young Adult Writer's
Journey is a 'Must Have' at your fingertip reference for anyone who writes (or
wants to write) for or about kids. Engaging text with topical and
thought-provoking insights leading from idea to submission . . . and beyond to
populate a story with believable characters young readers can relate to."—Nancy Gideon, Award-Winning author of the
By Moonlight series
“The trouble with “how to” books
on creativity is that they usurp creativity. Not so with this very insightful
guide for YA writing. If it doesn’t become a standard or even a classic among
reference books, it will be an oversight. Janet Schrader-Post and Elizabeth
Fortin-Hinds have all the marinated smarts and credentialed experience to pull
this off, and they do! No dictated wisdom from on high here, no grafted
creativity, THE YOUNG ADULT WRITER’S JOURNEY is accessible, motivational and a
clear map that leaves plenty of room to discover for anyone wanting to explore
their creative side.”-Thomas Sullivan,
Pulitzer-nominated author of THE PHASES OF HARRY MOON
About
the Authors:
Elizabeth
Fortin-Hinds knows kids well. She spent decades teaching teens and adults to
write and improve their reading skills. As a literacy expert and certified
coach, she helped both teachers from elementary to secondary and preservice
graduate students learn to improve reading and writing instruction. She has
taught at both the secondary and graduate level, everything from rhetoric,
essays, and thesis statements, to poetry, short stories, and how to write a
novel. She has learned to use both sides of her brain simultaneously, but
enjoys the creative side the most, learning to play piano, draw and paint, and
find time for her own writing since retiring from her “day” jobs.
A “true believer” in Joseph
Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, mythic structures, she uses that
lens when considering manuscripts for Tell-Tale Publishing Group, a company she
founded with some friends from her critique group a decade ago.
Daughter of a Colonel, Janet
lived the military life until she got out of high school. She lived in Hawaii
and worked as a polo groom for fifteen years, then moved to Florida where she
became a reporter. For ten years she covered kids in high school and middle
school. Kids as athletes, kids doing amazing things no matter how hard their
circumstances. It impressed her, and it awed her. “How wonderful teens are.
They have spirit and courage in the face of the roughest time of their lives.
High school is a war zone. Between dodging bullies, school work and after
school activities, teens nowadays have a lot on their plate. I wrote stories
about them and I photographed them. My goal was to see every kid in their local
newspaper before they graduated.”
Janet love kids and horses, and
she paints and writes. Now she lives in the swampland of Florida with too many
dogs and her fifteen-year-old granddaughter. She started to write young adult
fiction with the help of her son, Gabe Thompson, who teaches middle school.
Together they have written a number of award-winning YA novels in both science
fiction and fantasy.
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