{"id":126,"date":"2009-08-13T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chloeneill.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2009-08-13T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:06:00","slug":"great-post-on-yamg-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Great post on YA\/MG writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varkat.livejournal.com\/\">Lucienne Diver<\/a> posted a great blog yesterday on writing for the young adult and middle grade markets&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, at the Willamette Writers Conference, I heard more young adult and middle<br \/>grade pitches than ever before.  I sincerely hope this is because these are<br \/>the stories calling to the writers and not that they&#8217;ve decided to jump into the<br \/>cool pool, because here&#8217;s the reality: the YA\/middle grade market is just as<br \/>crowded and as difficult to break into as the adult market.  It&#8217;s simply<br \/>been getting a ton more press with the runaway success of Twilight, Harry Potter<br \/>and all that jazz.  If you are writing for young people because you love<br \/>it, here&#8217;s some things to be aware of in the writing and in determining which<br \/>market your work best fits . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/varkat.livejournal.com\/111955.html\">Click to continue reading<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucienne Diver posted a great blog yesterday on writing for the young adult and middle grade markets&#8230; Now, at the Willamette Writers Conference, I heard more young adult and middlegrade pitches than ever before. I sincerely hope this is because these arethe stories calling to the writers and not that they&#8217;ve decided to jump into<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=126\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,60,59],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lucienne-diver","tag-writing-tips","tag-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}