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Welcome to Episode 208 of our lovely award-winning podcast. Being a Monday, we were a day late and several brain cells short, but hey, we survived a sleepover with our young grandchild and we think we made an interesting episode.
Business first: Finding Salvation Part One is still on pre-sale for 99 cents and will be released this Friday, January 31 (yay). On Sunday, February 2, which happens to be Groundhog Day, we’ll be doing the cover reveal for ZOEY on the podcast. The reveal for two covers, that is. You’ll see.
Shameless plug: We are providing books for sale to this week’s Sierra Arts Foundation fundraiser, Brew Ha Ha. This is a worthy cause, so please check it out if you’re in the Carson/Reno/Sparks area.
Writing: CC continues to see the light at the end of the railroad tunnel as she cleans up her “Virginia City Ghost” (working title) manuscript. She might send it out to the Betas in February. She may do her own book cover, too.
Our main topic was writing in the Young Adult (YA) genre which is one of three very successful writing genres here in the Twenty-First Century (zombies and vampires being the others). CC and I happen to be reading YA books at the same time, so we’re picking up common themes:
-YA books are almost instantly relatable because we’ve all been there.
-YA epiphanies hit harder.
-There’s a freshness in experiencing “real life” for the first time that jaded adults don’t enjoy anymore.
-Fifteen year old girls/women can be dramatically different than fifteen year old boys/men.
We talk at length about these and other themes that can shape a YA novel, including poverty and religion. We use The Hunger Games and Pleasantville to illustrate our points, and we manage for the most part to avoid that boy wizard (you know who).
Have a listen and let us know what you think. TIA LYL!
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