Write what you love?

The part about getting published does bother me a bit, but she's trying something new. That's hard, and I think she deserves credit for that.

Perhaps she didn't mean it so offensively at all. Maybe someone told her that her voice has a teenage feel, and that she might have more success with her work in the YA market, or something like that.

SaronaNalia said:

Perhaps she didn't mean it so offensively at all. Maybe someone told her that her voice has a teenage feel, and that she might have more success with her work in the YA market, or something like that.

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When I wrote my first novel, I just wrote it--I never considered audience or genre. The protagonist was 15, but I thought it was a book for grownups, because I considered myself a grownup (I was 17). But the woman who later became my agent saw that it was YA, and told me so. I was a bit shocked at first, but once I got over myself I saw that, yes, it was YA--just like the books I'd been reading and loving for so long. So it is possible to wind up in a market by accident, realizing only afterward that it's the right place for you.

- Victoria

SaronaNalia said:

The part about getting published does bother me a bit, but she's trying something new. That's hard, and I think she deserves credit for that.

Perhaps she didn't mean it so offensively at all. Maybe someone told her that her voice has a teenage feel, and that she might have more success with her work in the YA market, or something like that.

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It shouldn't bother you. Lots of writers are hired by book packagers in YA to write stories for them, the book packagers give them the idea and gist and they write the books.

Lauren Kate, LJ Smith etc.

At first, I was a bit upset with that quote. But then I began to think about it a bit and I can't say I blame her. I mean, come on. In this day and age it seems like all you have to do to get a YA book published is over complicate a love triangle (usually with paranormal or dystopian qualities) and give the book a black cover and boom! You beat out everyone else vying for shelf space.

What's worse is when what you love to write is extremely popular. I was killing kids in reality TV long before it was cool, dang it!