Young Adult

Fantasy vs. Reality in Y.A. Novels

by Michael Kinch on November 24, 2011

I have a love-hate relationship with Fantasy. I loved the world of fantasy as a child. Dragons, witches, ghosts, werewolves, things that go bump in the night. But I also got kicked in the teeth when I discovered the world of fantasy and magic lay beyond my flesh-and-blood life. When I discovered Santa was not [...]

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What’s Going to be the new Trend in YA?

by Michael Kinch on November 13, 2011

When I wrote the first book in my Blending Time trilogy, the agent liked it because the dystopian genre was wide open. Little did I know that The Hunger Games would open a Pandora’s box of dystopian of dystopain novels. At the time my agent said he was getting to many queries about vampire and [...]

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