Oh, and for the record...

[rj_anderson]

With regard to my previous post, I should have explained that I love and respect a great many "children's" and "young adult" books (not to mention having a large personal collection of them!) and that my resistance to the idea that Knife might be YA wasn't due to any lack of respect for that genre. It was more to do with my original ideas and expectations for the book, most of which didn't even make it onto paper anyway, so yeah, I really am a ninnyhammer that way.

So thanks ot all of you who wrote with encouragement and congratulations. I'm really thrilled about this opportunity and looking forward to seeing if and how it pans out...!

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[ravensnape.livejournal.com]

RJ, I've been in the high school setting since 1992. Not much changes. What bothered them in 1992 still causes tears in the halls and lockers slammed in anger today. They still fall in and out of love and think that no one understands. Knife stands on its own as YA, whether today or ten years ago. No matter how hard it is to let go of our 'children' there comes a time to clean them up, dress them up and send them out into the world knowing we have given them every thing they need to succeed.

Eliz.