Comments on: Check your ego here http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/ About the craft and business of genre fiction Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Danielle http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-63148 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:32:24 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-63148 I'm so sick of the prejudice against YA books. Several of my favourite books are included in this genre - The Obernewtyn Chronicles, Wildwood Dancing and Cybele's Secret, the Twilight series, even the Hobbit! They are just as complex and well-written as any adult book I've ever read. To all writers of YA works out there - don't let the man keep you down! I’m so sick of the prejudice against YA books. Several of my favourite books are included in this genre - The Obernewtyn Chronicles, Wildwood Dancing and Cybele’s Secret, the Twilight series, even the Hobbit! They are just as complex and well-written as any adult book I’ve ever read.
To all writers of YA works out there - don’t let the man keep you down!

]]> by: astrothsknot http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61783 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:38:31 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61783 I guess it's like all things, horses for courses. There's no point in a kid who likes action books being made to read books about boarding schools. My son loves non-fic, but reading fic will make his eyes glaze over. I don't know many adults who won't give you an honest opinion of a book if you ask. I guess it’s like all things, horses for courses. There’s no point in a kid who likes action books being made to read books about boarding schools. My son loves non-fic, but reading fic will make his eyes glaze over.

I don’t know many adults who won’t give you an honest opinion of a book if you ask.

]]> by: Felicity Pulman http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61322 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:17:12 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61322 Hi Sophie What a great post! I often wonder where those literary critics (who want us to write 'real' books) think that adult readership comes from?? To hook a child into a story, to take them to another time and place, to stimulate their imagination and make them THINK is a far greater reward than any so-called 'literary prize'. So I feel sorry for all those 'real writers' out there who will never be told by a child: 'you made me laugh, you made me cry, I stayed up all night reading your book.' Hi Sophie
What a great post! I often wonder where those literary critics (who want us to write ‘real’ books) think that adult readership comes from?? To hook a child into a story, to take them to another time and place, to stimulate their imagination and make them THINK is a far greater reward than any so-called ‘literary prize’. So I feel sorry for all those ‘real writers’ out there who will never be told by a child: ‘you made me laugh, you made me cry, I stayed up all night reading your book.’

]]> by: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61314 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:42:26 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61314 <i>“How did you know what it is like to be me?”</i> That last comment would've made me feel the most rewarded! You definitely can't please all of the people all of the time, but I think it must be especially gratifying to please a child. Thanks for the post, Sophie! “How did you know what it is like to be me?”

That last comment would’ve made me feel the most rewarded!

You definitely can’t please all of the people all of the time, but I think it must be especially gratifying to please a child.

Thanks for the post, Sophie!

]]> by: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61268 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:17:25 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/02/20/check-your-ego-here/#comment-61268 Oh lordy, aren't kids painfully honest? My kid doesn't have the faintest idea how devastating she can be. But they can be the most faithful readers in the world, bugging us parents to buy title after title in a loved series. No wonder publishers have figured out that multi-book series are the way to go. A kid's loyalty is astonishing. And how lovely is it that you've touched young readers so much they couldn't put your novel down, Sophie! That's the best tribute any writer can have. Great post! Oh lordy, aren’t kids painfully honest? My kid doesn’t have the faintest idea how devastating she can be.

But they can be the most faithful readers in the world, bugging us parents to buy title after title in a loved series. No wonder publishers have figured out that multi-book series are the way to go. A kid’s loyalty is astonishing.

And how lovely is it that you’ve touched young readers so much they couldn’t put your novel down, Sophie! That’s the best tribute any writer can have.

Great post!

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