Joined by special guest Chelsea Sedoti, today we explore the roles of sex, drugs, swearing, and a little rock and roll in writing young adult fiction. And it definitely gets awkward. If you’ve ever sat back from writing a scene and told yourself,

As the conclusion of our series on the querying process, today we discuss sending your query to agents and how to make it out alive. When do you nudge? How many should you send at a time? And for crying out loud,

Today on UpvoteYA, we take an in-depth look at querying. What is a query? What are the important parts? What makes an effective query? We try to tackle these questions and more. As a bonus, after the episode we workshop two queries sent in by Redditors...

In part two of “Agents and Querying,” we discuss common misconceptions about literary agents, as well as what not to do when querying. We also interview agent Renee Nyen of KT Literary, who offers us some insights into her approach,

Literary agents are a big part of the traditional publishing process. So big, we can’t fit it all into one episode!  In part one, we talk about what an agent does, how to find one that’s right for you, and how to know if an agent is legitimate.

Welcome to episode three of the UpvoteYA podcast! Today we’re going to dive head first into the world of pitch and blog contests. We’ll talk about what it takes to win one and what writers should expect to get out of them.

Genre in the YA marketplace, tools for discovering trends, word counts, and approaches to drafting.

An introduction to the podcast and an examination of what draws us to young adult books as readers and writers