![]() ![]() Such strictures are tough enough, but a debut young adult novel doubles the difficulty, because the YA genre comes with its own set of perils, all of which are by now well-known: the flat characters, the Curse of the Missing Parent, the prevalence of a “Mary Sue” (a young female character with no training or experience who nevertheless easily outdoes all the adult men in the book), the reality-defining all-important centrality of the Love Triangle … and the list goes on. Debut novels will be intensely trendy, because their trendiness will have been the thing that nudged them into an agent's hands in the first place. ![]() ![]() Debut novels will almost certainly lack an individual voice, since that's usually acquired through practice. Debut novels will trip over their own feet in their eagerness to share their stories with readers, rather than trusting those readers to, you know, read. Debut novels will be lopsided in proportion, like little MFA-crafted voodoo dolls. Debut novels come fraught with their own particular set of perils, as all readers know and as all debut novelists, the poor creatures, are the last to learn. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |