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

Decent enough, commonsense advice on how to write and sell books for young adults. The YA genre isn't that different from any other, and most of the advice could apply to all fiction books. Like all "how to write" books, however, this is of limited use -- I think if you really needed a book like this to be able to write well then you might as well not even bother.

The information here is clear and easy to read but very basic. Great resource for someone unfamiliar with current YA.

This book has great realistic advice on how to write YA books. I am writing a YA book and it helped me tremendously! The writing advice is practical. Instead of being a generally boring book about writing, this novel can actually help an author.

The information here is clear and easy to read but very basic. Great resource for someone unfamiliar with current YA.

Often makes it sound like YA readers are sub-par.