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I want to thank Jackie Gamber for stopping by and talking today about this phenomena of Young Adult fiction. From Harry Potter, to Twilight to this seasons blockbuster hit Hunger Games, which is #1 in the box office and at the book store, Young Adult, or YA as you probably have seen around, is something EVERYONE is reading, not just your tweens and teens. There are more soccer moms sporting “Team Edward” shirts (or tattoos), Dads going to Cons wearing Griffondorf Colors or budding executives sporting a Mockingbird Pin (among other accessories) then the young adults themselves.
You’re only as young as you read: Why adults like YA, too
by Jackie Gamber, author of Redheart and Sela, Books One and Two of the Leland Dragon Series.
I’ve often said that when I first began writing the Leland Dragon Series, I didn’t know it would be classified as a Young Adult story. I just wrote from my characters’ lives. From their hearts. From mine. I gave my characters fears, and hopes and dreams. Then I set about to tell their journey.
Early on, whenever people would ask what I was writing, my answers often varied. “Fantasy”, I’d say. Or, on a different day, “Kallon Redheart. He’s a dragon.” Or maybe, “A novel about a province where humans and dragons once worked together, but now they’re suspicious and fearful of each other.”
Oddly, although my writing descriptions varied, the feedback rarely did. Commonly, I got, “Oh, you write children’s books?”