Notes from the Slush Pile - Candy Gourlay's Blog on Trying to Get Published in Children's Books

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestiere on the YA Fiction Boom

Justine Larbalestiere and Scott Westerfeld appeared on Cult Pop to talk about the why's and wherefore's of Young Audult fiction. Click on the image and go to Cult Pop 13. What Scott said:

Young adults are far more universal readers ... kids are more open to things ... they are less narrow.

Labels: My Favourite Authors, YA Fiction

2 Comments:

Lee said...: Then they haven't met my kids. They're the ones who are far less open - and won't touch YA lit! Talk about reversal of parent-child roles ...

(P.S. I'm the mad American from that lunch who doesn't want to be published conventionally.); 6:06 PM
Candy Gourlay said...: hi lee!

ha! that's funny! but they're missing a wonderful world! maybe when they're older ...

thanks for dropping in on my blog!

candy; 6:35 PM

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Nov 23 British SCBWI's Writer's and Illustrator's Day, Winchester, UK

April 20 Brighton Children's Book Festival, Brighton, UK

March 29-30 SCBWI Before-Bologna Conference, Bologna, italy

March 8 Scattered Authors Society, Coventry, UK

Freebie Alert! Download these web survival tools that I helpfully compiled for my 2007 talk Who’s Afraid of the World Wide Web – on how authors can survive the New Realities of the Internet.

NEWS NEWS NEWS NEEEEWS!

The excellent Anita Loughrey interviewed me in anticipation of my talk in Bologna and here it is on the Cynsations blog.
Undiscovered Voices, the ground-breaking anthology published by British SCBWI in association with Working Partners is out! My novel Ugly City won a place in the anthology at last year's competition. Buy the anthology.

My cartoon is featured on the cover of Simon Morse's The Pregnant Guy: Journey to the Center of the Birth. Simon's book answers previously neglected issues that affect expectant fathers such as "Am I getting fat?". All pregnant fathers must buy this book - it will be a nice thing to read while sleeping on the couch once the baby is born.