Popular Young Adult Urban Fantasy Books.

Karen Healey recommends five YA urban fantasies and talks a little about the genre at Booknotes Unbound. YALSA’s The Hub did a genre guide to urban fantasy in 2013. Kirkus has a list of 17 YA urban fantasy titles with reviews. All Things Urban Fantasy is chock full of information, reviews, and discussion on urban fantasy, including lots of YA.

From Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies. By Deborah Halverson, M. T. Anderson. The elements of storytelling are the same for young adult fiction and adult fiction, but writers of young adult fiction must come at those elements with a wholly different mindset.

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In the last couple of decades YA fantasy has become an established market, urban fantasy has blurred the boundary between horror and fantasy, paranormal romance has put urban fantasy in a corset, the new weird did to fantasy that the new wave had previously done to science fiction (only the new weird was generally better behaved), steampunk (in.

This index consists of Tropes commonly found in the Urban Fantasy Genre. For more information on the genre, please visit the Urban Fantasy page. The genre itself is closely related to Alternate History, Dungeon Punk, Gothic Punk, Horror, Magical Realism, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal Investigation, Supernatural Fiction and Supernatural Thriller.

Habitual crime fiction readers (many urban fantasy novels are mysteries of some sort) also read urban fantasy. People who watch the True Blood and Vampire Diaries TV shows subsequently pick up the books they’re based on and then perhaps go on to others in the same vein (pun intended). Readers of YA urban fantasy migrate to the adult shelves.

Women Destroy Urban Fantasy: An Interview with Carrie Vaughn and Kelley Armstrong. by Sandra Wickham. I’m a big fan of Urban Fantasy. I read it, I write it, and I admire many of the authors in the genre. Urban Fantasy has been around for a long time, under different names, with varying surges and dips in popularity. I wondered if women writing in this sub-genre felt targeted by those who.

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So, I have this problem when creating fantasy worlds. I'm currently trying to write a story that involves a lot of historical themes (Let's say, the European colonization of the Americas or the Crusades) with a huge brush of fantasy. I thought about making just 2 continents at first, but since the plot moves a lot around religion, culture.

The Future of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Michele Acker. Yes, but when urban fantasy became hot, I saw a lot of authors jumping on that bandwagon as well. I think a lot of authors simply have more ideas floating around than they possibly have time to write and when something skyrockets like YA has, they may choose to focus on those ideas that previously might not have had the best chance.