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The Writers Panel

Maureen Johnson

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Tv & Film, Tv, Writing, Movies, Hollywood, Screenwriting

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The author of such young-adult novels as The Name of the Star (first of the Shades of London series), 13 Little Blue Envelopes, and Suite Scarlett talks about writing and writing and writing...


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0:00.0

Now entering nerdist.com

0:04.8

It's the nerdist writers panel and it's hosted by Ben Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now so this will be the end of the theme.

0:13.9

But I don't know, these audiences are very interesting to me.

0:16.9

It's a thing that comes up now and again on these podcasts because we are, you know, so many of us are creators who have direct interaction with our fans.

0:26.6

And it's part of how we sell our product and it's part of how we get to keep doing what we do.

0:31.8

So it's a complicated relationship.

0:34.2

I mean, you're writing primarily young adult fiction.

0:38.3

For now, yeah.

0:39.3

Yeah.

0:40.1

And so this is the audience that you've grown.

0:44.6

What is your audience like?

0:47.3

Who makes them up?

0:48.8

Are they teenagers?

0:50.1

Are they adults?

0:52.5

Who responds to your work specifically?

0:54.9

I do...

0:55.7

Well, I think it depends on if you're talking about the books

0:57.8

or if you're talking about online stuff.

0:59.7

And the online...

1:00.7

I feel like my life online is much of what I do.

1:06.1

And the young adult books, I'm assuming, are mostly probably people of around college age or just like teen, high school college.

1:20.5

With, there is a lot of adult YA readership now as well.

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