From Writer's Digest:

This book takes readers through every stage of writing for the YA market. Aspiring writers and established authors hoping to move into this flourishing genre alike will find instruction on writing for this special audience as well as tips on getting published. The book covers everything from plot, setting, characters and dialogue to revision and approaching publishers.

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Ages 8 & up

When Evie reluctantly moves with her father to upstate New York where he has bought an apple orchard, they dismiss rumors that the trees haven't borne fruit in decades because the town is cursed. After all, Evie doesn't believe in things like curses or fairy tales anymore. If fairy tales were real, her mom would still be alive. But then Evie receives a mysterious seed as an eleventh birthday gift and meets a boy who claims to be dead. When planted, the seed grows into a tree before their eyes, but only Evie and the boy can see it-or go where it leads.

The Garden of Eve mixes eerie magical realism with a deeply resonating story that beautifully explores grief, healing, and growth.

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Young Adult - Anthology

In this unique collection, acclaimed yound adult novelist and longtime poker enthusiast Pete Hautman has compiled ten stories exploring the great American game of poker. From an Internet poker scheme gone wrong to a midnight game with the devil, from a humiliating display of poker ineptitude in front of a girlfriend's family to the scholarship game to pay for college, these stories reveal how poker can both irrevocably affect and eerily imitate teenage life.

Be sure to check out KL's contribution titled, "Poker For the Complete Idiot".

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Young Adult

When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell. His mother has gone off, his father is stoned on the couch, and because the phone's been disconnected, even the  social worker can't get through. So he leaves a note, and goes out into the world to make something of his life, but that's not so easy when you're only sixteen, live in public housing, have no skills and your only friend, Mo, is a pot-smoking, law-school drop out who's thinking about joining the Hare Krishnas. But Iggy is Iggy, and he's got the kind of wisdom that lets him see things no one  else can.

In the week leading up to Christmas, Iggy travels all over the city, finding himself in the lap of luxury, the grayness of a never-ending drug party, the haven of a chapel, and finally at the door to a choice that will change his world forever.

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Ages 8 & up

Gabriel King believes he was born chicken. He's afraid of spiders, corpses, loose cows, and just about everything related to the fifth grade. If it's a choice between graduating or staying in the fourth grade forever, he's going to stay put; only his best friend Frita Wilson won't hear of it.

With wisdom and clarity, K. L. Going explores the nature of fear in what should be an idyllic summer for two friends from different backgrounds. For them, living in a small town in Georgia with an active Ku Klux Klan, the summer of 1976 is a momentous one.
It's the summer they figure out what courage is all about.

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Young Adult - Anthology

Bold, innovative, and eclectic that's Rush Hour, the place for thought-provoking work from today's most distinguished voices, both established and new. Face is the captivating theme of Volume Three, and it goes far beyond skin deep to probe perceptions and reality, secrets and revelations.

In Rush Hour: Face, 20 writers and artists peer beneath the masks we wear in public and in private with startling results. You'll find striking stories by Aidan Chambers and K. L. Going, poetry by Marc Talbert and Jen Bryant, a graphic story by Eric Shanower, art by Harry Bliss and William Steig, and several rising stars here you won't want to miss.

Young Adult

His name is Troy, but to the world--and in his internal dialogues— he is the Fat Kid. Really Fat. Almost 300 pounds of sweating,  unhappy insecurity. Then out of a moment of despair comes  magic. As Troy considers whether to splatter himself on a subway track, Curt MacCrae, a charismatic punk rocker/homeless kid/dropout, comes along and stops him. For the price of a meal, Curt befriends Troy, and he sees something under all those layers: a potential musician, a friend, and someone with the ability to see through life's bull.

In an outstanding, funny, edgy debut, K.L. Going presents two unlikely friends who ultimately save each other.

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