Thursday, September 27, 2012

P10 TALKS: Diversity in YA Literature and CONTEST!

AND YES, with every P10 Talks post (one per month) there will be a contest and giveaway! This month, it's a signed hardcover of Tempest and Vortex ARC (one winner, two books). Read through the post and enter the contest at the bottom if you'd like. Open to International ENDS  OCTOBER 20, 2012

Today, the Perfect 10, my awesome teen panel and guest panelists, are talking about a topic that I’ve been thinking about lately and wondering if I’ve done enough or too little regarding this subject. The subject is Diversity in Young Adult literature. How the P10 Talks post works is, I ask the same questions to each teen and they can answer as many or as few as they’d like and I don’t insert my own opinions. I don’t tell you what I think because I’m the writer and what I need to do is listen. Listen to what my readers and my target audience are looking for in a YA novel and ask myself whether I’m the right author to provide that for them.  

"I'm a closet lesbian and a judgmental bitch, which means one thing—I have awesome gaydar."--GLEE 

The first question I asked them was: