Hey, everyone – this is Becca, with a new post we are doing here on Adventures in YA Publishing, called What’s on Reader’s Minds?Once a month, I send an email out to bloggers, asking them to tell me what’s been on their mind lately. Sometimes they even post a segment from a discussion they’ve had on their blog recently, and then I post their answers right here! Want to be a part of our book blogger panel? Leave your blog name and contact details in the comments below! We’d love to have you!
stuck over and over again in a reading slump. It would take me
ages to read a
book and I found it hard to be ‘wowed’ by much of anything. After months of
this I finally decided to grab a book off my shelf that I had for years
(seriously, it was at least 6 years) and when I started reading it I suddenly
had that wonderful feeling again, that feeling of not wanting to put the book
down. That warm and fuzzy feeling of loving absolutely everything about it. The
book was something totally outside my normal genre (cozy mystery) and I
immediately ordered more of the series as well as several others in the genre. I
found that my taste has changed quite a lot and while I still love YA and read
more of it than anything, I’m absolutely devouring these cozy mysteries.
Particularly the ones with psychics, ghosts or that take place in England in
the 20’s and 30’s. I feel like I’m a different person, as everyone of them I
read I DEVOUR. Like in a day. I can’t get enough. Sometimes we all just need to
remember to venture out of our comfort zones and to try something new, you
never know how it might change your life!
try to pretend like chapter samplers don’t exist. Don’t get me wrong, they do
all the things they’re supposed to do. I can read a chapter sampler and figure
out whether or not I’ll jive with an author’s style, become obsessed over the
story, wail over the ending, and vow to read the rest when the book comes out.
However, I have noticed that I tend to do better gelling with the book in the
long term if my reading experience is consistent.”
been on my mind lately is this: How much responsibility does an author have to
be respectful of religion, or race, or sexism or a myriad of other issues?
on Reading Teen this week and got some very interesting responses.”
Read more here: http://www.readingteen.net/2014/10/on-author-responsibility-in-ya-books.html
“Is YA really written for young adults anymore?Young..by the publishers point of view I mean.The typical YA age group is said
to be in the teens yet _________% of readers are actually older (couldn’t find
the exact number). The topics of these titles also have become increasingly more
risque’ dealing with issues such as rape, drug use, and a whole slew of other
things that used to intended for strictly adult books. I enjoy it since I am in
fact quite older than the teens these days but with the ever exploding boom of
readers are YA book actually becoming more geared to the Adults who read them?”
