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It's time to write in nominations for our December poll. This month it's BEST Y.A. Author. Maybe they wrote a lot of stand alone books rather than a series. Or maybe they wrote multiple series. Whatever the reason, you think they're the best Y. A. author in the biz.
The Rules
1- As always, I leave definitions up to your best judgement because I'd rather be inclusive. If you nominate authors who are clearly adult authors (No Stephen King or G.R.R. Martin), I'll put the kibosh on it, but I'm not going to get persnickety about where exactly young adult becomes children's books or where exactly they become adult books. If you think an author fits, and they're not grotesquely inappropriate, I'll take it.
2- You are nominating an author's whole body of work. If you loved one book, but not really any others, best save that for the next time "Best Stand Alone Y.A. Novel" rolls back around.
3- I would like to discourage the nomination of authors of a single great Y.A. series. We just had a "Best Y.A. Series" Poll, and I don't want to do it all over again. I won't be enforcing this, but try to pick authors who have either done several stand alone books or multiple series for young adults.
4- You may nominate two (2) authors. (Remember that I am a breathtakingly power hungry despot here at Writing About Writing. To encourage reading and reading comprehension I will NOT take any authors beyond your second.)
5- You may (and should) second as many nominations of others as you wish. No author will be going on to our poll that doesn't get at least one second, and it is not unheard of for a poll to have SO many nominations that I only take the results with two or more "seconds."
6- Please put your nominations here. I will take books nominated as comments to this post on other social media; however, they may not get the seconds you need because no one will see them.
In a couple of weeks we'll get the poll fired up based on your nominations. It's all up to you.
Tamora Pierce and Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
ReplyDeleteSecond Tamora Pierce
DeleteThird Tamora Pierce
DeleteSecond Tamora Pierce
DeleteBeverly Cleary and Judy Blume
ReplyDeleteSecond Judy Blume!
DeleteThird Judy Blume
DeleteIsaac Asimov
ReplyDeleteSecond!
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ReplyDeleteScott Westerfeld
ReplyDeleteJK Rowling
Second Westerfeld
DeleteRobin McKinley and I'll go with Cassandra Claire (despite controversy, I still really enjoyed her books).
ReplyDelete(I got persuaded that Lackey is not YA)
Let's go with some awesome kid horror - John Bellairs
ReplyDeleteOhh and kid mysteries!! So, ok, they're totally a pen name that encompassed multiple authors - is that legit? - Carolyn Keene (if you tell me that doesn't count I'll find someone else, it's cool).
Cory Doctorow and Diane Wynne Jones.
ReplyDeleteI second Diana Wynne Jones!
DeleteI Second Second Diana Wynne Jones!
DeleteAllen Johnson Jr. for the Blackwater Novels series. Loved it. Portrait of boys growing up in 1930s South, lots of adventures.
ReplyDeleteAnd here's the link to the first book on Amazon of Allen Johnson Jr.'s young adult fiction. Check out the reviews http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Story-Blackwater-Novels-Book-ebook/dp/B00HUC1QPO/ref=sr_1_1
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ReplyDeleteUrsula K LeGuin
Andre Norton
Seconds:
Diana Wynne Jones
Robin McKinley
Scott Westerfield
Judy Blume
Cliff McNish
ReplyDeleteUrsula LeGuin
Second:
Dianna Wynne Jones
Roald Dahl (obviously splitting his work to ignore all of the adult-adult stuff!)
ReplyDeleteSecond Roald Dahl
DeleteSecond Roald Dahl
DeletePatricia C. Wrede
ReplyDeleteand I feel like John Green maybe should be on this list.
Second Robin McKinley, Roald Dahl
Second Patricia C. Wrede
DeleteSecond John Green
DeleteI'll nominate Madeline L'Engle. You all have already hit all the other folks on my personal list.
ReplyDeleteNominating Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander
ReplyDeleteSeconding Madeleine L'Engle, Robin McKinley, Roald Dahl, John Bellairs, Tamora Pierce, Beverly Cleary, Judy Bloom, JK Rowling
Silently apologizing to a host of other favorite YA authors
Will Shetterly, Tracy Lynn
ReplyDeleteCan't tell if my comment made it through or is waiting for moderation or something, so apologies if this is a duplicate.
ReplyDeleteHmm... seconding Robin McKinley, Patricia C. Wrede, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander, and Madeleine L'Engle.
And... I'll nominate Laini Taylor and Kristin Cashore. (Also silently apologizing to others.)
I can see it.
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