CMIS Evaluation Fiction Focus

How authors find the time to blog as well as create highly readable YA fiction is a bit of a mystery, but writing is writing, and a few of our favourites have great blogs out there to keep readers up to date with their latest news.

Susan Beth Pfeffer (Life as We Knew It) has a self-deprecating wit that is always a delight to read. Yes, her posts can be a tad long, but invariably contain several gems. Over the past few months we have shared in the gestation of LAWKI’s sequel, the dead & the gone, due here in a few weeks.

Other author blogs worth a look include cynsations, the informative blog of Cynthia Leititch Smith (Tantalize); Justine Larbalestier (Magic’s Child) , while Scott Westerfeld (Peeps) keeps us up to date with his travels, new writing and particularly the many and varied covers of the international editions of his work.

Most YA writers, however, are where their audience is - in social networking sites such as MySpace. John Green (Looking for Alaska), David Levithan (Are We There Yet?) and Ned Vizzini (It’s a Kind of Funny Story) all have their MySpace presence where they connect with their readers.

And LiveJournal has an online community called yawriterblogs, where you will find Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Sarah Dessen (Just Listen) and Alex Flinn (Breathing Underwater) amongst a number of other North American names.

But apart from Justine and honorary Australian Scott, there doesn’t seem to be a huge blog presence amongst local YA authors. If you know of any good ones, please tell us about them.

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