For the YA writers here, Trends for 2015...

[Katie-Ellen]

via oh no, huff puff, The Huff Post.

Crims and cons, and great re-tellings of old stories, quirky and moving and dealing with loss looks like it, in a nutshell....

ARTICLE HERE

 

[Diamond]

An intriguing selection, but I'll never write off vampires and dystopians.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Young adults will never tire of vampires and alternate versions of reality, especially including an apocalypse of some kind.

 

[1408]

Thanks, Katie! The book I'm currently pulling out of my trench coat and creeping up to agents with "Would would like to see me wares?" does deal with death, but it's not the driving point of the story (it is for one character, but not the story). The one I'm currently writing I can't see fitting these themes, but, ah well! At least I'm planning to keep the word count in check this time. Again, thanks as always for sharing what you find.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Heh, have fun frightening those agents, you writer stalker bunny, you.....

 

[1408]

Ah hahaha! I think I picture myself more like this though:

Much less intimidating!

 

[Richard Sutton]

Glad to hear YA readers are finally tired of the same-old, same-old. KTLN's news brings some fresh air into the room!

 

[EPHahn]

Yay for the John Green effect!

 

[Richard Sutton]

Yes, EP! Indeed! Wait... I dunno what that is... please edjicate me...

 

[EPHahn]

The whole "quirky and moving and dealing with death" part... John Green leads the YA pack in those types of novels and teens adore his stories!

 

[Richard Sutton]

Thanks!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Well, I know the name now, thanks Erin.

 

[Jay Aitch]

Sorry to disagree, but vampires have surely had their day ... or night ... or twiglet. Now if there were stories about mutated chimeras with a fetish for cheese, you might be onto something.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Heh, Oedipus getting the answer wrong, trying to buy the sphynx off with Stilton.

 

[Jay Aitch]

Simon Stilton and the Secret of the Sphynx Spy?

 

[EPHahn]

Sorry to disagree, but vampires have surely had their day ... or night ... or twiglet. Now if there were stories about mutated chimeras with a fetish for cheese, you might be onto something.

Surely they have, but someone needs to tell that to these agents I am querying...

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Best to stick to dragons, they come in several breeds like my 'defender' black and white dragon, black left side, pure white right side....