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A comprehensive handbook on the art of writing fiction and nonfiction for young adult readers furnishes a helpful overview of the entire writing process, from perspective and dialogue to plot, setting, and character construction, along with tips on how to select an agent and publisher, how to market the finished work, and writing exercises and insider facts. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Deborah Perlberg is a writer and editor who also teaches the art of writing juvenile fiction and creating submission packages that sell. She created the first course on Writing Children?s Books for the renowned Gotham Writers Workshop and has managed such best-selling YA series as The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley and Goosebumps. She has also acquired and edited several Nancy Drew Mysteries and The New Adventures of the Bobbsey Twins.