In the second episode of the All About YA Podcast, Ashley and Mariëlle talk about what YA is exactly, and whether there’s even a universal answer to that question.
This episode is sponsored by Jamie Sands.
Jamie is a non-binary kiwi who’s always been wondering ‘what if’? They write stories about ghosts, monsters, love, and how the world could be. Jamie grew up in Wellington but now lives in Auckland with a wonderful woman and a round cat.
The Suburban Book of the Dead
No one expected the last night of the Summer holidays to be deadly.
Rain and her best friends Rachel and Jackie head to the carnival. Rain's plan was to chat up Jake, who runs the Ferris Wheel, and maybe get a kiss or two.
But then Rachel's killed in mysterious circumstances, and none of them will ever be the same again.
When Rachel returns as a ghost insisting Rain find out who killed her and why, she turns to Jake, who knows more than he seems to. In fact, he's encountered weird stuff like ghosts and monsters before.
So now she just has to grieve for a friend who she's still talking to, try not to fall deeper in love with Jake, keep her family off her back, decide who to trust, infiltrate the funfair and find Rachel's killer. Piece of cake, right?
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Here are the links to the articles we bring up in this episode:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/31/ya-books-reads-young-adult-teen-new-adult-books
https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/living/young-adult-fiction-evolution/index.html
https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/what-exactly-is-young-adult-literature-a-brief-history
For our little test, Mariëlle used the novel we are reading this month for our All About YA bookclub, I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, and Dream Messiah by Randy L. Scott, both of which are available on Amazon. Ashley picked Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris and Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
During next week’s episode, we’ll interview David W. Wright about the difference between writing young adult and adult fiction. See you then!
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