YA
"You need to hit teens right between the eyes with a good book; they'll never get over it."
— Charles Baxter
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"[If I could do it again] I would have found YA sooner."
— Romily Bernard
"I'd written women's fiction, chick lit, and historical romance. Almost every agent I submitted to said, 'Wow, like your voice, but, um, the heroine is kind of ...grouch.' Then, in 2010, I decided to try writing YA. Suddenly, my heroines weren't grouch. They were spunky."
— Romily Bernard
for Creatives | characters, romance, writing, Romily Bernard, YA, women's fiction, genre