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Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Landing a Publishing Deal

10 best books like Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Landing a Publishing Deal (Regina Brooks): Forty Rooms, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, How I Live Now, Safe at Last, Conundrum, The Near Witch, Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society, Writing Irresistible KidLit: The Ultimate Guide to Crafting Fiction for Young Adult and Middle Grade Readers, Growing Up Asian American, Revision & Self-Editing: Techniques for Transforming Your First Draft Into a Finished Novel

Forty Rooms
AuthorOlga Grushin
ISBN1101982330
The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel.

Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating....
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
AuthorCordelia Fine
ISBN0393068382
It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks--we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it, and everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences...
How I Live Now
AuthorMeg Rosoff
ISBN0553376055
"Every war has turning points and every person too."

Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London...
Safe at Last
AuthorMaya Banks
The third book in the beloved #1 bestselling author’s sexy, romantic suspense Slow Burn series…

They say young love doesn’t last, but a girl from the wrong side of the tracks with unique abilities and the hometown golden boy were determined to defy the odds. For Zack Covington, Anna-Grace—his...
Conundrum
AuthorJan Morris
ISBN1590171896
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married,...
The Near Witch
AuthorVictoria Schwab
ISBN1423137876
The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.

And there are no strangers in the town of Near.

These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.

But...
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
AuthorCordelia Fine
ISBN0393355489
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone and not part of culture. Drawing on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology,...
Writing Irresistible KidLit: The Ultimate Guide to Crafting Fiction for Young Adult and Middle Grade Readers
AuthorMary Kole
ISBN1599635763
Writing for young adult (YA) and middle grade (MG) audiences isn't just "kid's stuff" anymore--it's kidlit! The YA and MG book markets are healthier and more robust than ever, and that means the competition is fiercer, too. In Writing Irresistible Kidlit, literary agent Mary Kole shares her expertise...
Growing Up Asian American
AuthorMaria Hong
ISBN0380724189
I had a hard time relating to this book. One of the biases of my review is likely based on that disappointment. Most of the writers are north east Asian and the stories are a mix of funny, heart warming, and some muddled ones that is usual for anthologies. But it lacks the pointedness that drives emotions,...
Revision & Self-Editing: Techniques for Transforming Your First Draft Into a Finished Novel
AuthorJames Scott Bell
ISBN1582975086
Spot and Fix Manuscript Missteps

Don't let the revision process intimidate you any longer. Discover how to successfully transform your first draft into a polished final draft readers won't be able to forget.

In Write Great Fiction: Revision & Self-Editing, James Scott Bell...
Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing
AuthorLibbie Hawker
This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B00UKC0GHA

When it comes to writing books, are you a “plotter” or a “pantser?” Is one method really better than the other?

In this instructional ebook, author Libbie Hawker explains the benefits and technique of planning a story...
Planting Gardens in Graves
AuthorR.H. Sin
ISBN1449487173
R.H. Sin has gained many fans over the last couple of years. His Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel sold out and copies were fetching quite a price. Sin made his name with short poems and used language to make words carry their maximum weight. Since the release of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel two things have happened....
Rogue
AuthorMark Frost
ISBN0552565342
The third and final instalment of the epic Paladin series by Mark Frost, the screenwriter of Fantastic Four and co-creator of Twin Peaks.

Will West is playing a dangerous game. Months after uncovering the sinister Paladin Prophecy plot, he continues to work with the mastermind behind the...
How to Write a Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did
AuthorVic Johnson
ISBN1469025515
"Who Else Wants To Write a Book This Weekend?"

It's easier than you think!

Best-selling author Vic Johnson actually wrote this book in a weekend to prove how easy it is. And he gives you step-by-step detail of everything he did, including the resources he uses to turn out content-rich...
A Call to Character: Family Treasury of Stories, Poems, Plays, Proverbs, and Fables to Guide the Deve
AuthorColin Greer
ISBN0060927879
A Call to Character is a unique family reader that brings together a liberal assortment of voices from novels, short stories, plays and poetry -- both the well loved and the obscure -- to enrich and enliven a child's imagination. The unusual breadth of readings illustrates lives defined by hign standards...
The Paladin Prophecy
AuthorMark Frost
ISBN0375870458
Will West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam.

Now Will is being courted by an exclusive...
Alliance
AuthorMark Frost
ISBN0375970460
Readers of I Am Number Four, The Maze Runner, and Legend will love this sophisticated adventure series by the cocreator of the groundbreaking television show Twin Peaks, with its unique combination of mystery, heart-pounding action, and the supernatural.

After exposing the sinister underground...
Home School
AuthorCharles Webb
ISBN0312376308
Finally, the sequel to the international bestseller and one of the most classic movies of all time, The Graduate, has arrived.

At the end of Charles Webb's first novel, The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock rescues his beloved Elaine from a marriage made not in heaven, but in California. For...
Honeybee
AuthorTrista Mateer
ISBN1771681365
You will meet people in your lifetime who demand to have poems written about them. It’s not something they say. It’s something about their hands, the shape of their mouths, the way they look walking away from you. Honeybee is an honest take on walking away and still feeling like you were walked away...
Just One Touch
AuthorMaya Banks
#1 USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks continues her suspenseful and sizzling Slow Burn series with the fifth book featuring the men and women of Devereaux Security Services.

Abducted as a young girl and raised in a strict religious cult, Jenna has no connection to the...
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
AuthorTom O'Neill
”Manson himself had a fondness for the same phrase: ‘I am the man in the mirror,’ he said. ‘Anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free.”


Who is Charles Manson?

This book began as a 5000 word piece for Premiere Magazine with the...
The Boyfriend Experience
AuthorCarly Phillips
He’s the total package.

Except…

Eric Miller isn’t looking for a long term relationship. And he definitely isn’t thrilled when a friend signs him up for The Boyfriend Experience app behind his back. It’s not like he has a problem getting women on his own. But when he gets a...
With Every Breath
AuthorMaya Banks
ISBN0062410172
Eliza Cummings fought free of a monster who terrorized her when she was an innocent teenager and helped put him away for good. She took a job with Devereaux Security Services and devoted every hour to taking down the very thing she’d nearly become. No one, not even those closest to her, know her darkest,...
In His Keeping
AuthorMaya Banks
Arial knows the rules that keep her safe. She's been following them since she was a little girl: Do not tell. Do not show. But in a moment of terror, facing an attacker intent on taking more than just her life, Ari has no choice but to unleash the psychic powers she's been hiding since childhood.
Now,...
Keep Me Safe
AuthorMaya Banks
A sizzling story of a woman who risks her life and her heart to find a wealthy man’s missing sister — the first novel in a sexy new romantic suspense series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks.

When Caleb Devereaux's younger sister is kidnapped, this scion of a powerful and...
The Fall of Crazy House
AuthorJames Patterson
ISBN0316433748
The best dystopian series since The Hunger Games just got better.

Escape is just the beginning.

Twin sisters Becca and Cassie barely got out of the Crazy House alive. Now they're trained, skilled fighters who fear nothing--not even the all-powerful United regime.

Together,...
Dirty Love
AuthorKenya Wright
I’d found God in her eyes and a prayer in the subtle way she moaned. I found my soul, the spirit of humanity between her thighs. Devilish temptress or holy angel, I would have her all to myself.

Nothing could happen to her, ever. Not one scratch. Not one frown on her face.

I would kill to...
The Dating Alternative
AuthorJennifer Woodhull
ISBN1684547695
She's not ready to date. He's happy to offer her an alternative.


MAX


Ever since I met the girl I affectionately call Cheese, I've wanted her.

She was dating a buddy when I was single. When she was single, I was living with someone.

So, when I found out she and...
The Sweetest Hallelujah
AuthorElaine Hussey
ISBN0778315193
An unforgettable story of two courageous women brought together by one extraordinary little girl  

Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie,...
You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want
AuthorSarah Knight
ISBN0316445126
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together comes more straight talk about how to stand up for who you are and what you really want, need, and deserve--showing when it's okay to be selfish, why it's pointless to be perfect, and how...
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