Why YA Authors Should Spend Less Time in Bookstores
I have a confession: I don't read much YA fiction off the shelf.
My writing colleagues are surprised when I tell them that. They're convinced I've broken a cardinal rule of the business. I have to read the all new stuff every year, they say, or I won't know what agents are buying.
In most categories that's true ? but YA is a very different animal, and the usual rules have less relevance.
This blog post was originally published on Critique Circle in the year 2012