child teen ya – Christine Steeves Speakman

Youth/YA: What are the ages?

January 22, 2024 christinesteevesspeakman

Lea, this one might be for you. Everyone, it’s an inside joke. For what age group would Nancy Drew or…

April 24, 2023 christinesteevesspeakman

I have a story with a group of heroes, sounds pretty simple, right? They’re not in the super power league,…

March 27, 2023 christinesteevesspeakman

Is your YA set as a period piece or flashback as memory? Backstory? Being mindful of the language you use…

February 27, 2023 christinesteevesspeakman

…is it a genre or age group. Hold, need to research that. It’s a – category of fiction writing for…

January 23, 2023 christinesteevesspeakman

Have we taken this away from our children, teens, and young adults? I’m not referring to the world with its…

October 24, 2022 christinesteevesspeakman

Nancy Drew enticed me to write my own mysteries, but never did I include parents. Nancy had her dad and…

August 22, 2022 christinesteevesspeakman

Or….do your references match your readers’ I need to put a disclaimer here, my co-worker basically had a brain-burp; however,…

November 14, 2018 christinesteevesspeakman

Should there be life lessons within these stories? Sometimes this is the perfect medium for them. As long as they…

November 7, 2018 christinesteevesspeakman

I’ve already written about reality as a subject matter which would also include language. Those words we don’t like or…

October 31, 2018 christinesteevesspeakman

What’s a better match? Wasn’t this the first genre you, as a teen, snuck to read or watch behind mom…