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One of my favorite things about YA literature is the way it talks about the unique challenges of teenage life. As people come of age, their entire world shifts and changes around them. YA has always celebrated that change while acknowledging that it can be tough to grow up, whether it’s through the lens of a real-world setting, a spaceship, or a fantastical kingdom. But some books choose to merge the real and fantastical together with compelling results. In my latest book, The Deck of Omens, the five modern-day teenagers at the center of my story must defeat the monster that’s tormented ...

While reading for Locus this year, I kept an unof­ficial list of notes about things I wanted to mention in my end-of-the-year es­say. The biggest word on the list is “WITCHES,” which cropped up in more than one memorable title to cross my desk. From the field hockey team that takes a solemn oath within an Emilio Este­vez notebook in Quan Bar­ry’s We Ride Upon Sticks to the mill workers who cast a life-saving spell for union solidarity in C.S. Malerich’s Factory Witches of Lowell, witches factored largely in 2020 fantasy fiction. The wide variety of class, ethnicity, and circums...

Rick Riordan Imprint Moves into YA Fiction with Daniel José Older By Claire Kirch | Feb 18, 2021 For years, Daniel José Older has been writing novels for middle grade, YA, and adult readers set in multi-tiered worlds in which the ordinary is infused with magic, mystery, and mayhem. Disney Publishing Worldwide imprint Rick Riordan Presents is dedicated to publishing novels that are retellings of myths from around the world. The two are now joining forces as Older, author of the bestselling Shadowshaper Cypher YA series, has negotiated a two-book deal with the imprint...