It’s very important for your protagonists to be 'different' because today's youth despise the sheep mentality and so they all strive to be unique. So instead of aligning herself with the shallow, mean and popular crowd, she aligns herself with the shallow and mean loners. She also has the ability to perceive someone's personality through the colours that define them. Her protagonist, Ever, was incredibly popular at her old school and has decided to be an outcast because she feels that she can't be accepted due to her psychic gift. Noel's method is different yet in a similar spirit. Now, Meyer's approach of the goose-turned Swan-but was really still a goose, Bella, associated herself as 'different' and a 'loner' only to arrive at her new school and be immediately popular and accepted by almost everyone. So whilst you can't have your main character associate herself with being cool, it still has to be obvious to your audience that she totally is. It's important that your primarily female teenage audience can relate to your main character. Does that sound too convenient? Well, it's unbelievably easy to do if you follow my quick and easy program! How To Write Popular YA Supernatural Literature AND Defile Your Spirit!īased on the popular YA novel, Evermore, and aided by countless more like it, I have compiled an easy to read and follow list of rules for writing a popular series and being able to sell out your soul at the same time.

STEALING INFINITY- Optioned for TV by Valhalla Entertainment - available now!įIELD GUIDE TO THE SUPERNATURAL UNIVERSE - Optioned for TV by producers Charles Matthau and Michael Zoumas with Andrew Orenstein and Matt Hastings attached as show runnersīorn and raised in Orange County, California, she’s lived in both Mykonos and Manhattan and is now settled in Southern California. RULING DESTINY- book 2, in the STEALING INFINITY series She is best known for THE IMMORTALS series, THE RILEY BLOOM series, and SAVING ZOË, which was adapted into a movie now available on Amazon.

With 9 NYT bestsellers and millions of copies in print, her books have been translated into 36 languages, and have topped the NYT, USA Today, LA Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Wall Street Journal, NCIBA, and Walmart Bestsellers lists, as well as several international bestsellers lists. I only add books I loved, hence all my ratings are 5 stars.Īlyson Noël is the #1 NYT best-selling author of many award-winning and critically acclaimed novels for readers of all ages. *Note to readers: I'm slowly adding to the long list of books I've read, books I'm reading, and books I want to read.

Evermore by Alyson Noel