Young Adult

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Good Websites

 

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

Resources

Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies  

 
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

Writing for The Young Adult Audience

Secrets and Contradictions 

The Top Five Do's of Writing YA Lit

How Do You Write for Teenagers?

I'm a Teenager and I Don't Like Young Adult Novels. Here's Why

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

YA v. Adult: What's So Different Anyway?

Writing Realistic Teenagers in YA

How to Write a Young Adult Novel

Six Tips for Writing Young Adult Novels

YA Authors Talk Booktok: Boon or Burden?

Writing a YA Thriller? Read These Books!

Verse Novels


Novels in Verse (list) 

Writing the Young Adult Verse Novel

The Industry


Writing for Young Adults - A Look at the Numbers

The Key Differences Between Middle Grade vs. Young Adult

YA is Leading the Way

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?

Is My Novel Upper YA or New Adult?


Marketing


How to Promote a Young Adult Novel on Social Media