tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post2884067665642497016..comments2023-10-30T00:51:36.361-11:00Comments on Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman: Do publishers patronise teen readers?Exmoorjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09230395732150659356noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-72762610018088633682011-08-24T02:49:48.852-11:002011-08-24T02:49:48.852-11:00This is exactly why when I was a teen, I read adul...This is exactly why when I was a teen, I read adult books. My life wasn't all about proms and football games. I couldn't relate to the Wakefield Twins of Sweet Valley High. One of the things I love about current YA lit is that it is starting to deal with more realistic issues. Authors like Jackie Morse Kessler & Laurie Halse-Anderson address real problems in the lives of teens and give them hope that they will make it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09671439141193804688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-20239116237756349372011-08-24T02:34:25.267-11:002011-08-24T02:34:25.267-11:00Well, I can't speak for books, I read adult bo...Well, I can't speak for books, I read adult books my entire life ;) But I do recall as a child finding the sanitized families on the popular television shows more depressing than uplifting - teens need more than anything to know that any bad things happening in their lives are NOT just happening to them, it can be comforting to realize you aren't so unique after all. I say be true to the story and the teens will lap it up!Sessha Battohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15569927397738788073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-63101561859029592602011-07-11T20:53:34.323-11:002011-07-11T20:53:34.323-11:00How did my teenage daughter escape your trial read...How did my teenage daughter escape your trial read?? Sounds fascinating and yes, they do seem obsessed with keeping it in a very tight arena....Fingers crossed and toes then for the edit x<br /><br />Lxfamily affairshttp://familyaffairsandothermatters.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-33594088260605984962011-07-11T08:22:09.976-11:002011-07-11T08:22:09.976-11:00As another commenter said, I wonder if it's be...As another commenter said, I wonder if it's because they worry about the parents' reaction rather than the young adults themselves?<br />I once worked as a script editor on a<br />drama strand for teens at the BBC. We adapted Stone Cold by Robert Swindells (about a serial killer of homeless kids) and Junk by Melvin Burgess amongst others. It was always the parents who wrote in to say how disgusting/immoral/ etc the stories were. Good luck with Samael.alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09338687691871813019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-18987191387577597322011-07-11T05:54:21.704-11:002011-07-11T05:54:21.704-11:00How young are YA? 13 upwards, by that time I was r...How young are YA? 13 upwards, by that time I was reading all sorts and most of it adult. Come on guys this was where I learnt that life wasn't all cosy as it was in my family. It helped me to grow up, understand and consider another's point of view....Tattieweaslehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723634612274763884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-65591424067398136682011-07-10T23:06:57.974-11:002011-07-10T23:06:57.974-11:00Go for it, my dear. Don't sanitize. I want to ...Go for it, my dear. Don't sanitize. I want to read the whole dark-and-dirty story. I'm sure you have the marketing grunt to make it work.Gretahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06011218229698210595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-58201947323755111682011-07-10T12:30:59.719-11:002011-07-10T12:30:59.719-11:00Well Jane, as you know, I don't have any child...Well Jane, as you know, I don't have any children, so must travel way back in time to think about what I was reading in my teen aged years.<br /><br />There was no fiction category marketed directly at my age, and I had not reason to think that there might be.<br /><br />So...as a voracious reader, I just continued my borrowing from the library, working my way through the classics of English literature, and then plunged into what was then current adult fiction.<br /><br />Glad to report that my parents never forbade any of my choices ... funny but I think that they might not have ever read what I was checking out.<br /><br />As always, best wishes to you. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-60816773462686209462011-07-10T10:52:48.474-11:002011-07-10T10:52:48.474-11:00Whilst you may have a point, cannot help but feel ...Whilst you may have a point, cannot help but feel that it's just because life is so bleak that I think books for YA folk should hold off all the realism. They're a long time living: let them be children for a bit longer? Just what's wrong with that. As a member of the Third Age, perhaps I'm being too wistful.Isobel Morrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562228276170917504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-2798031064085189252011-07-10T09:12:13.216-11:002011-07-10T09:12:13.216-11:00Hurrah for Jane!!
despite being so old YA didn'...Hurrah for Jane!!<br />despite being so old YA didn't exist when I was a kid, I shall be buying this one the moment it comes out.<br />I do believe it is the time to kick the gate keepers in the goolies and get on with things.<br />xxxxxxxxxxxxx<br />VivAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-10331201312001920122011-07-10T08:41:26.678-11:002011-07-10T08:41:26.678-11:00I think there may have been YA books when I was yo...I think there may have been YA books when I was young? Though by the time I was thirteen or fourteen, I was ripping through Harlan Ellison and Stephen King as fast as I could lay hands on them. <br /><br />I don't think teen novels are being sanitized for the kids. God knows you'd have to get beyond debauched to even come close to the dissipated parties of my (pre-college) youth. I think it's so parents don't get offended. In the litigation happy US, I can totally see one of the "pro-family" groups suing a publisher for corrupting the delicate youth. Libraries have been sued, so it's probably happened already. I just live under a rock and missed it.Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02011180576782676523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-86739070178417295692011-07-10T07:52:47.927-11:002011-07-10T07:52:47.927-11:00It's funny that there are those particular rul...It's funny that there are those particular rules for books, however if you look at films for the 12 or 15 age bracket and compare the content surely they combine the fantasy with realism in those! Why so different for books I wonder?mum in meltdownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16460316200342594004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677133322409652783.post-73468972885885712952011-07-10T04:40:53.070-11:002011-07-10T04:40:53.070-11:00Oh, pleeeeeze; let us not sanitize the world til i...Oh, pleeeeeze; let us not sanitize the world til it no longer Bears any resemblance to what we see every day (or every other day)!<br />Kids know a fraud when they see one.<br />I'm with you, Jane.Rob-bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00171692478879522588noreply@blogger.com