Do the titles The Fault in Our Stars, Divergent, Twilight, or The Hunger Games ring a bell? They’re just a few of the most successful YA novels in recent years.
Young-adult fiction, commonly called “YA fiction,” has exploded over the past decade or so: The number of YA titles published grew more than 120 percent between 2002 and 2012, and other estimates say that between 1997 and 2009, that figure was closer to 900 percent. Ask a handful of young-adult fiction writers what exactly makes a YA novel, though, and you’ll get a handful of conflicting answers.
Find out what it takes to write the next best-selling YA novel.
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