YA is thriving, but it's become a diverse genre, linking books widely spread across more traditional classifications like mainstream literature, fantasy, mystery and romance. What these books often ...

Writing is a strange thing. For some it’s just a bunch of words strung together to create sentences. But for others, writing fuels every fiber of their being and opens up incredible worlds from the ...

Scott Westerfeld's latest book is about a teen who writes her own YA novel. Westerfeld alternates chapters about her life with chapters of her... YA is thriving, but it's become a diverse genre, ...

In Scott Westerfeld's latest novel Afterworlds (Simon Pulse), the Uglies author goes all meta on his young adult readers. His story is essentially a book within a book, switching back and forth ...

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This fall, Uglies and Leviathan series fans will have something new to get amped up about: a standalone YA novel by Scott Westerfeld. Published by Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s ...

Darcy Patel, the protagonist of Scott Westerfeld’s “Afterworlds” (Simon Pulse: 640 pp., $19.99, age 14 and up) writes a novel at 17 during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) that lands her a two ...