Thinking about how to integrate myself into the young adult fiction community

Many of my notions about young adult writers are drawn from a Diablo Cody movie.

I feel like I'm fairly well-integrated into the science-fiction community, but that's something which happened very organically: I went to Clarion and met 22 other authors and editors; I sold a story and joined the Codex Writer's Workshop, where I met a number of other up-a…