Deborah Halverson founded the writer's advice website DearEditor.com and was a veteran editor for young adult and children's fiction before picking up a pen and writing the teen novels Big Mouth and Honk If You Hate Me.

• Foreword xxiIntroduction 1Part I: Getting Ready to Write Young Adult Fiction 7Chapter 1: The Lowdown on YA Fiction 9Chapter 2: Targeting Teen Readers 19Chapter 3: Managing Your Muse 35Part II: Writing Riveting Young Adult Fiction 61Chapter 4: Writing the Almighty Hook 63Chapter 5: Creating Teen-Friendly Characters 75Chapter 6: Building the Perfect Plot 97Chapter 7: Creating Teen-Driven Action 117Chapter 8: Setting Is More than Somewhere to Be 133Chapter 9: Crafting a Narrative Voice Teens Will Listen To . . . and Love 151Chapter 10: Talking Like a Teen 175Part III: Editing, Revising, and FormattingYour Manuscript 199Chapter 11: Editing and Revising with Confidence 201Chapter 12: The Finishing Touches: Formatting and Finalizing 219Part IV: Getting Published 235Chapter 13: Strategizing and Packaging Your Submissions 237Chapter 14: Self-Publishing: Is It for You? 269Chapter 15: Mastering Marketing 283Part V: The Part of Tens 311Chapter 16: Ten Common Pitfalls in Writing YA Fiction 313Chapter 17: Ten Facts about Book Contracts 319Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Make the Most of a Conference 329Index 339

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