Author Archives: Wren James

(BACKDATED POST) In July I went to the London Comiccon, which hosted the first YA convention. It was brilliant, and I met lots of people, quite a few of whom had read my book and knew who I was?? It was a bit surreal and I felt like a huge imposter. I got to go toContinue reading “Young Adult Literature Convention thoughts”

So Alexia Casale, yet another member of Claire’s coven, tagged me in the writing process meme! What am I working on? Uhhhh my masters thesis currently……eep. But fiction wise, I should really be doing my edits for Book 1, which are due in June. I’m also messing around with Book 2, which I can’t really doContinue reading “Writing process meme”

When I started writing my first novel I had no idea it would be a Young Adult book. I was eighteen, and I just wanted to write a story. I wrote it about people my age, about characters who were like me, with jokes that I thought were funny and ideas that caught my interest.Continue reading “The difference between writing YA as a teenager and an adult”

I want to talk a bit about trends in books. My novel is about reincarnation, which when I started writing was a very rarely seen concept in fiction- which is why I wrote it. In recent years, however, it has become a lot more common. It’s a bit frustrating, that something I wrote thinking wasContinue reading “Trends in YA”