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I really enjoy reading *good* YA scifi/fantasy and would love to see you venture into that field. Good writing is good writing—a well-written YA story is a good adult fiction story, minus the things you wouldn’t want your 12 year old daughter to read. Well, that’s a pretty broad generalization…..some plot lines wouldn’t be suitable for youngsters to read. Given that your work is “clean”, i.e., no four letter words, no explicit sex, your style would seem to lend itself to YA.
I think Robert’s story, beginning when he walked out of Tanyth’s gate, would make an excellent story. Just a suggestion.
Oooo – I like that one!
I can see the argument that Quarter Share is YA, I think part of your issue seeing it that way is that it is part of the larger story.
Which is *not* YA.
If QS were a stand alone or the story continued in a different direction, I could see it being considered YA. But you didn’t write a YA story.
Actually – there’s nothing explicit in the later stories, so the full series really does qualify as YA. I’m not certain of the reading level index, but I don’t recall it seeming very high.
Really, I think some of the content in HS and FS push the boundaries a bit, especially in Full.
and Double Share? Given just what crap was going on aboard that ship and the detail it goes into that is YA?
but then again lots of people have different definitions of ‘YA’.
Hey, readers read everything in sight. I used to get really ticked that the library had a “children’s section” and the rest of the library wonders. I read everything in the childrens and ended up having my mom get me stuff from the rest. Of course, I read dad’s westerns (Zane Grey, Louis L’Amour sp?, Max Brand, etc) and other stuff picked up here and there (Gone With The Wind, The Cardinal,) Yeah, right. If it was not understandable to me, I put it down. Of course, my folks would not have had some things in the house, or if they did, I never found it. The point of this is, I would proudly set your books out on the shelf and if a child noticed and read, they would probably enjoy them very much. More power to them.
PS Harry Potter is not for child wimps.
Harry Potter is a case of split personality mis-fire. But I can rant for some time on the faults of Ms. Rowling’s writing, but this really isn’t the place. She just tried something she didn’t have the chops to pull off. I will admit, though, that the books got a lot of children to read for entertainment for the first time, and *THAT* is a real accomplishment.
I know my YA reading included Poe & King, probably because my parents didn’t realize I was raiding their bookshelves. I did particularly love Firestarter because the main character (in my eyes at least) was a young girl.
I just keep imagining kids who are along on a colonization project stealing a flitter, or crawling around the air ducts in an orbital during a refueling, or pranking drunk spacers on leave.
And, yes, my 8-year-old-Star-Wars-loving boy is frustrated with a lack of good Sci-Fi reading material. Most of what he wants to read devolves into situations that I REALLY don’t want to have to explain to him. I loved Ender’s Game, but I think it’s a little heavy for him. Hmmm, perhaps I should think about buying a locking bookshelf…
Whatever Nate decides, I just hope he has fun writing it and that the words flow easily and quickly from his fingertips!
Lisa
I could see “Quarter Share” passing as YA, but not, I think, “Half Share”!
As far as the second book goes, I think whatever excites you is the best choice. Is the story you read at Balticon considered steampunk? That was hilarious! I don’t know if it would work so well in a written, versus oral, format, but it and the “Amulet” were a blast.
I love that you called it Ravenwood 2: Electric Boogaloo. Everything “2” in this house is also part of the Electric Boogaloo sub-genre. 😉
Just stopping in to see how your Nanoing is going. I’ll be posting a link to your podcast today. So energizing, motivating.
I don’t want to write for 8 or 9 y.o.s, either. As far as YA goes, it really seems like it’s going in the direction of writing a very fast-paced story in the worldview of the adolescent experience, with a teen protagonist.
Steampunk gets my vote, as well!
Everyone’s into Scrivener.
You’re so right. There is no recipe. But speaking of pies, what kind did you make?
I had to get some “life” out of my system yesterday, so I put in a brick path in my backyard, with the help of my team of slave laborers. All-in-all, a good day!
Apple.
I’m not writing this in scrivener and I don’t think I could write this fast if I were.
I’m not sure what that means but I’m glad I got full text word search 😀