Anyway, back to the reason I'm writing this post. Everyone knows I'm an avid reader of Scott Westerfeld's books and blog. Apparently WSL went on some kind of rant on how YA novels were too dark and scary and causing teenagers to become cutters. When I first started reading about this on Scott's blog I was just waiting for Scott to shoot out all the reason they were wrong. And while he did do that, he also brought out a valid point, what about the parents?
He basically was saying that teens and parents need to talk about what they are reading if this concerns them. I thought it was a great post and I really appreciated it. Grant it, I'll be the first to say there there is some YA lit that I wouldn't recommend reading.....just like there are plenty of PG-13 and R rated movies I won't go see or recommend seeing, or parties I wouldn't' recommend going to, or whatever. So if you want to read what Scoot (and all the other comments [which a lot of parents were commenting!]) just go to Google and type in Scott Westerfeld blog and look at the July 7th post.
P.S. I already put this same post on my other blog because I felt it was important to put on both.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Queries
Okay, so it's been a long time and I've been busy. I finally just got the guts to send off my first round of query letters to five agents off of my long list. Cross your fingers for me and hope for representation! (My birthday is in 13 days so it would make an awesome present. ;] )
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