Writing Middle Grade & YA | Trad Pub Talk LIVE STREAM! 

Great discussion! Thankyou all. Lindsay, speaking as a parent of used-to-be-MG-readers ... my kids LOVED audiobooks. We generally bought them on CD (8-10 years ago) or borrowed them from the library and listened to them in the car, or at bedtime, or whilst playing Lego. Amongst homeschoolers, audiobooks are very popular, as we parents get sore throats doing all the read-alouds. I found there weren't enough good quality audiobooks to satisfy our demands. That may have changed now.

This was super helpful! One of my WIPs sort of straddles the line between middle grade and YA, so it's given me a lot to think about.

I’ve watched this through twice now. It’s really given me a good steer on my MG WIP. Thanks for arranging such a fantastic, intelligent panel. This was such great help

What a wonderful panel!!! Thanks so much to everyone. Would you ladies ever think about talking about what happens at a school event? Like, itinerary wise? What do you do foe the length of time you are there?

Thanks for getting together for the live stream. And thank you all for answering my questions. ❤

That was reallt fascinating! So true about school visits. I remember meeting the author Peg Kehret when I was about 12 and reading all of her books afterwards

For the record I would totally read a book called don’t put seventeen year olds in charge of children😂

Really glad to get to see some of my RU-vid favs together.

This was so useful! Thank you so much!

This was very helpful for me. Thanks Alexa

In comment to middle graders and audio books... I can't speak for all of them, but my middle grade sister listens to a lot of audiobooks through her Alexa, especially at night.

YA romance discussion is so fascinating to me because I was that teenager who never dated... Anyone. And most of my (good) friends were too. Maybe it was just my small, devout Christian friend group, but still. We talked and though about falling in love for sure, crushes, but I really didn't understand the stereotype of crazy hormonal teenagers. I was so shy I couldn't even talk to a cute boy I liked, and if a guy I didn't like tried to talk to me more than twice, I'd run for the hills for fear I was leading him on somehow.

This was great! Thank you!

I really wanted middle grade, middle grade, middle grade. YA takes over everything.

Alexa is me. I enjoy reading MG but writing it seems like a giant puzzle to me.

yall should do a Podcast

I love the Bone Houses!

Oh no one commented here lol anyways hi

I'm new on this scene. Too many abbrviations, I feel like a little kid listening to grownups talk in big words. Please honor the rookies and de-code.

I was enjoying until the conversation went to sneaking things past parents. As if a writer knows better than the parent.