If you're feeling really adventurous, pick up a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. If you see vampires are popular, don't write about them. But if you want to deprive your reader of that delicious voyeuristic experience, make both love interests as boring and bland as you see fit.Ĥ. See Hush, Hush, Twilight, and Fallen for abusive love triangles. Make sure that both boys love the girl, but the girl just loves one for no particular reason. And then give the heroine a love-interest that absolutely adores her. If you can, make sure that you give no reason why the romantic leads are in-love with each other. That way if a reviewer says she's whiny and annoying, someone can refute this by saying she has reasons to be whiny and annoying.ģ. Often both parents should be dead and she should have a relative that hates her. It gives her more reasons to angst and whine. Also, make sure she has a best friend that she can envy, and a boy that adores her. That would make her complex and intriguing. We can't have her be interesting or three dimensional. Whether it be loving the ocean, loving books, or loving to whine, make sure it's only one hobby. Make your narrator a selfish, boring girl with little to no life outside of her love interest and one singular hobby. Boring enough to put Plato, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare to sleep.Ģ. Also, make sure your narrator's POV is very boring. It makes the book confusing and fun for your reader to plow through. If you have no idea how to write 1st Person Present, do it any way. Make sure you write the book in a POV that distances us from the narrator.

Instagram: How to Write a Best Selling YA Novelġ. If you're pretty sure you won't survive the zombie apocalypse, you're in good company. If you like true-crime stuff (both fiction and podcasts), check out her upcoming release, Dead Air, a serialized thriller co-written with Gwenda Bond and Rachel Caine. If you or your kids like multi-author, multi-platform series like 39 Clues and Spirit Animals, try Infinity Ring: Divide and Conquer - it's produced by the same publisher (and has vikings and true history!) If you like cold calculated revenge involving hidden identities and lots of secrets: Daughter of Deep Silence. If you like clever, fun adventure fantasy for 8-12 year olds, definitely read the Map To Everywhere series (co-written with her husband, John Parke Davis). If you like zombies, try the Forest of Hands and Teeth series. Latest release (out Aug 2, 2022), perfects for fans of thrillers, serial killers, missing girls, mysteries, unputdownable books: Trapper Road You can keep it that way by reading her books: Carrie Ryan is the New York Times bestselling author of a lot of books.

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