We have bubblegum and edgy YA threads, but nothing about genre YA novels. This is not a good thing. I like genre novels, possibly because I've always found real life kind of dull... and there's so much crazy in my life that most mainstream novels don't do that much for me.
So here's my story about how I was assimilated into the horde of fantasy writers.
I was reading mainstream YA for a long time. Lots of Judy Blume. My uncle sent me Tamora Pierce's novels Wild Magic and Wolf Speaker, but I didn't pick them up until they had been sitting on my shelf for about two years.
And I read them.
And I was completely blown away by the world, the concepts, the magic, the flying crap-covered bird people (WHY, RIKASH!?) and all that good stuff. It was intense. So I went to the bookstore and I discovered Patrica C. Wrede and Diana Wynne Jones. Then Garth Nix and Libba Bray. Then Orson Scott Card. Then Terry Pratchett.
No looking back. I love fantasy; I love creating my own worlds and playing with concepts.
What about all of you? (Those of you in genre denial can feel free to lurk near the punch bowl and mutter to yourselves.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.)
LOOK! It's an EDIT!
Things that Constitute 'Genre' - A Cumulative List:
Smoochies
Zombies
Consummate Vs
TROGDOR
Crime-fighting Robots
Weird, strange stuff
Lonely, lovesick harpies
Not-really zombies
Evil Overlords
That thing Jordan said on page 2
So here's my story about how I was assimilated into the horde of fantasy writers.
I was reading mainstream YA for a long time. Lots of Judy Blume. My uncle sent me Tamora Pierce's novels Wild Magic and Wolf Speaker, but I didn't pick them up until they had been sitting on my shelf for about two years.
And I read them.
And I was completely blown away by the world, the concepts, the magic, the flying crap-covered bird people (WHY, RIKASH!?) and all that good stuff. It was intense. So I went to the bookstore and I discovered Patrica C. Wrede and Diana Wynne Jones. Then Garth Nix and Libba Bray. Then Orson Scott Card. Then Terry Pratchett.
No looking back. I love fantasy; I love creating my own worlds and playing with concepts.
What about all of you? (Those of you in genre denial can feel free to lurk near the punch bowl and mutter to yourselves.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.)LOOK! It's an EDIT!
Things that Constitute 'Genre' - A Cumulative List:
Smoochies
Zombies
Consummate Vs
TROGDOR
Crime-fighting Robots
Weird, strange stuff
Lonely, lovesick harpies
Not-really zombies
Evil Overlords
That thing Jordan said on page 2
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