Teen Book Talk - Determining Your Genre - YA Authors, Cristy Watson, Rae Knightly and Lyndi Allison.

Cristy Watson, Rae Knightly and Lyndi Allison talk about how determining the genre of the book helps with marketing.

Texts referenced

Edward M. Lerner Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction, https://www.tranquiloretreat.com/blog...

Sean Glatch What is Magical Realism in Literature? An Exploration of El Realismo Mágico https://writers.com/what-is-magical-r... Contact info:

Cristy Watson is an award-winning author of eight novels for MG and YA readers. She loves entering writing contests and was thrilled to receive Editor’s Choice in the CV2, 2-Day Poem Contest in 2013, where contestants write a poem using ten selected words, in 48 hours. She also regularly participates in the Poetry Marathon in June, doing the half-marathon where she writes twelve poems to twelve prompts in twelve hours. She also
volunteers at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference, and the Beach House Theatre.

Follow Cristy Watson at https://cristywatsonauthor.wordpress.com and   / watsoncristy  

Rae Knightly is an award-winning, Amazon bestselling author of science-fiction novels for middle-graders and young adults. Her latest release, The Knowledge Seeker, is a dystopian story about a sixteen-year-old boy who lives six-hundred years into the future and is tasked with saving what remains of 21st century knowledge. Rae lives in Vancouver, on the Western coast of Canada, with her husband, two children and a jealous cat.

Contact Rae Knightly at www.raeknightly.com

Lyndi Allison As a tween, Lyndi walked miles to borrow books from the bookmobile and found quiet places to read them. Now she writes stories, like her Summer Triangle Trilogy, for young readers and encourages them to write in a companion writing journal called Creative Constellations. Lyndi moved with her husband to Panama where she hosts writing workshops, tours and retreats, in nature and at Tranquilo Retreat. Ideas often come to her as she walks the beach, swims in waterfall pools, and hikes in the mountains.

Find Lyndi Allison at [email protected] and www.tranquiloretreat.com/books
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