Teens with novels published?

Forestqueen808 · Jan 16, 2010

I know its possible, but you know with like Eragon and Chris Paolini his parents were in the company, so it was easy for him...but what about the others? What other books are big that were written by teens? (Besides Eragon and Swordbird)

BriMaresh · Jan 16, 2010

Amelia Atwater Rhodes was 14 when her first book Demon In My View came out. She's pretty much published a book a year since (though she's no longer a teen NOW). They recently published two of her series in omnibus editions, and her new book comes out in February. I know at the time her first books were published, she was featured on the Rosie O'Donnel show, amongst other things.

bclement412 · Jan 16, 2010

Break by Hannah Moskowitz-- she's a member here as well.

AryaT92 · Jan 16, 2010

The Outsiders

D.U.F.F

Sage · Jan 16, 2010

I believe Ally Carter was a teen (maybe still is) when she started The Gallagher Girls series.

bclement412 · Jan 16, 2010

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I think (but am not sure) that she was 19 when she wrote it.

DonnaDuck · Jan 16, 2010

Dan Elconin with Never After.

Kaleb Nation with Bran Hambric.

Steph Bowe, an Austrialian teen author and her soon-to-be-published book just got picked up in the US.

Momento Mori · Jan 17, 2010

Helen Oyeyemi was (I think) 18 when she wrote The Icarus Girl and either 19/20 when it was published.

Catherine Banner was 15 when she wrote The Eyes Of A King and I think around 18/19 when it was published.

Kit Downes was 19 when he wrote Zal and Zara and the Great Race of Azamed and about 20/21 when it was published.

MM

Danthia · Jan 17, 2010

Sage said:
I believe Ally Carter was a teen (maybe still is) when she started The Gallagher Girls series.

She wasn't actually, and isn't now. She had other books out before she ever wrote the GG series.

Parametric · Jan 17, 2010

Our own Blind Writer is teenage author Kody Keplinger, who sold her debut YA novel THE DUFF at auction and also sold film rights.

vwyler · Jan 17, 2010

Peter S. Beagle was 19 when he wrote A Fine and Private Place. A masterpiece.

deltay · Jan 17, 2010

Flavia Bujor was in her early teens when her book Prophecy of the Stones (or something like that) was released. Isabel Kaplan wrote Hancock Park when she was 16 and got it published June of 2009 by HarperCollins (at the age of 19, I believe). She's also at Harvard, which is very impressive.

eyeblink · Jan 17, 2010

Jane Gaskell - wrote Strange Evil at age fourteen, published at sixteen. (China Miéville apparently rates it highly.)

Catherine Webb - same ages for writing and publication of Mirror Dreams.

Both have gone to have careers as novelists as adults.

S.E. Hinton was 17 when The Outsiders was published. (ETA: AryaT92 has already mentioned this novel.)

AryaT92 · Jan 17, 2010

Hopefully in a week I'll be a published teen

*knocks on wood*

Kathleen42 · Jan 17, 2010

vwyler said:
Peter S. Beagle was 19 when he wrote A Fine and Private Place. A masterpiece.

He was nineteen when he wrote it? Damn. It's an incredibly beautiful book.

deltay · Jan 17, 2010

AryaT92 said:
Hopefully in a week I'll be a published teen *knocks on wood*

Whoa you're on sub to pubs? Awesome, good luck!

AryaT92 · Jan 17, 2010

Thanks!

*knocks on wood*

Shady Lane · Jan 17, 2010

my first book came out when i was 18, and the next one will come out either right before or right after I turn 20, I don't have a date yet. And the third will be when I'm 21. Unless another one butts its way in there, we'll see.

vwyler · Jan 17, 2010

Shady Lane said:
my first book came out when i was 18, and the next one will come out either right before or right after I turn 20, I don't have a date yet. And the third will be when I'm 21. Unless another one butts its way in there, we'll see.

Go, Shady, go!! :hooray:

Shady Lane · Jan 18, 2010

thank you

ChimeraBell · Jan 18, 2010

I remember reading one book that was published when the person was seventeen but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called TT-TT

Glenakin · Jan 18, 2010

Shady Lane said:
my first book came out when i was 18, and the next one will come out either right before or right after I turn 20, I don't have a date yet. And the third will be when I'm 21. Unless another one butts its way in there, we'll see.

Are you going to give us a little hint about your next book, or will you let us salivate?

Shady Lane · Jan 19, 2010

Glenakin said:
Are you going to give us a little hint about your next book, or will you let us salivate?

haha! there hints all over the place. it's called INVINCIBLE SUMMER, and it's a family saga over four years of summers. the main character goes from 14 the first summer to 17 the last. you don't see what happens during the year, only what happens over the summers.

shaldna · Jan 19, 2010

i wrote my first book at 16 and published it at 19.

Forestqueen808 · Jan 19, 2010

i wrote my first book at 16 and published it at 19.

Which book is that??? I should read it!

Teens with novels published?

Forestqueen808

What can I say? I'm a writer

BriMaresh

New kid, be gentle!

bclement412

AryaT92

Sage

Our Lady of Parentheticals

bclement412

DonnaDuck

My Worlds Are Building

Momento Mori

Tired and Disillusioned

Danthia

Parametric

vwyler

deltay

eyeblink

Barbara says hi

AryaT92

Kathleen42

crushing on fictional characters

deltay

AryaT92

Shady Lane

my name is hannah

vwyler

Shady Lane

my name is hannah

ChimeraBell

The chimera's mistress

Glenakin

Shady Lane

my name is hannah

shaldna

The cake is a lie. But still cake.

Forestqueen808

What can I say? I'm a writer