What I Want to See More Of

Everybody knows what they don't want to see more of in YA writing: vampires and werewolves. I think the world has gotten the message. I personally am getting a little tired of dystopia, which is a little strange since I'm a big fan of the genre. I have Insurgent on my bookshelf and I thought I would just jump at any chance to start reading it, but I find myself going "meh." It took me a month to finish "The Ask and The Answer" by Patrick Ness (part of the Chaos Walking series) and it was an awesome book too, so I don't get why it took so long for me to finish. I guess dystopia's getting old for me.

Dark fantasy and some urban fantasy is getting old too, but I never really read a lot of it. "City of Bones" kind of ruined it for me. I really did not like that book for some reason. Angels are also getting old and I usually HATE the stories (like the Fallen series by Lauren Kate).

I'm not writing to bash other authors though. My purpose to to inform what I as a reader don't want to see more of. Let's move onto what I do want to see more of.

Ghost stories! Have you read "Anna Dressed in Blood" by Kendare Blake? Awesome book! I read it in two days. I am also addicted to the TV show "Supernatural" although it's more about angels now instead of ghosts so I'm starting to hate it. I love me a good ghost story though. I can't wait to read "Girl of Nightmares"!

Good contemporary stuff. My new favorite author, John Green, wrote an awesome book called "The Fault in Our Stars." I read that one in two days. I also want these contemporary books to be "important," which means I want to learn something from this book.

I also want more science fiction, emphasis on the science. A lot of dystopia books are sci-fi to some level, but it's more about government problems. Maybe scientists just terraformed Mars and a few pioneers have to go explore the newly transformed planet. Things that occur in space. That stuff. My teacher just wrote a great sci-fi book, which I read in two days.

Zombies will probably never grow old for me. I don't see a lot of zombie stuff out there except for "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" books (which are amazing!).

Psychological thrillers would also be really cool. How come no one has written "A Beautiful Mind" for teens? Give your protagonist an Annie Wilkes-like boyfriend! The more disturbed the person, the better!

New fantasy concepts would also be cool. Who says you have to write about fantastical creatures already imagined by other people? Throw something completely new at me. One time I wrote a movie script about Nexolins and Lumens, creatures from a different dimension!

Okay, I think that's it for now. I write what I want to read and these are the genres I've been writing in lately. "The Dead and Dying Embers" is a zombie novel. My next novel will be a sci-fi novel taking place in the Degenerative Era of the universe. I'm writing a contemporary novella about a boy with Hemophilia. I've written several short stories that are psychological thrillers, such as "Trick or Treat." That one was about a psychopathic murderer so it was kind of scary getting into his mind. O.o I haven't really written a good ghost story yet, but I've always wanted to.

Hope this helped! I have no idea if agents agree with me, though I have heard that they do want to see more psychological thrillers.

TTFN!