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Confessions of a YA writer

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Naomi Kanakia
Oct 25, 2025
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For the first ten years of my professional career, I was primarily a writer of young adult novels. Sometimes people ask me how this happened. The truth is that there was a YA boom at the time (2014-2024), and when there’s a boom it just naturally occurs to you that it’s easier to sell a book if you market it as YA.

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