Developing your craft

10. So, musicality is one technique for drawing the reader on.

9. Formatting is another.

But the myriad of ways in which this...

How much do you think about the demands of the YA market while you’re writing?

Bridget Collins: Well, while I’m actually writing, not...

What sets YA fiction apart?

Bridget Collins: What I love about it is the intensity, and the freedom – because it’s in the middle of...

What is YA fiction?

Julia Green: It’s a publishing category, really, rather than a genre with particular characteristics, although...

Jane Austen's manuscripts are part of her legend, that she carved herself out a creative space in tiny words, on cramped paper, not...

At the other end of the spectrum, there is a novel like the prize winning Tenderness of Wolves, whose author Stef Penny had never visited Canada...