Betty Jo is teaching a new YA writing class. Come join her for a fun writing adventure. Sign up here.

Audience becomes a more than usually important consideration when drafting a young adult (YA) novel. In this course, we’ll familiarize ourselves with the genre and audience of the YA novel, learn specific strategies for improving the core components of your YA book—such as character, plot, and setting—and, finally, unearth the mysteries of querying agents and editors. By focusing on specific writing techniques—and using K.L. Going’s Writing & Selling the YA Novel—you’ll learn how to turn your idea for a YA novel into a finished, and saleable, novel.

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TITLE: Gracie's Holiday Hero
AUTHOR: Betty Jo Schuler

It's the first day of December, snow is in the air, and Gracie
Singleton Saylor's shopping for a Christmas tree when she runs smack into Merett Bradmoore, her high school hero. She can tell at once he's not the happy-go-lucky guy he used to be.

Fifteen years ago, Gracie's family faced a holiday without food or
gifts and the handsome high school senior came to their rescue. Gracie, a freshman, fell a little in love with Merett that night and she's
believed ever since that dreams do come true. Seeing that Merett,
widowed with a seven-year-old daughter, has changed, Gracie is
determined to return his gift of optimism. But can she return his hope
without losing her own?

Enter the zoning board, an old enemy, and the personal problems of her two sisters Hope and Faith. Mix in a mischievous cat named Spook, a huge furry mutt named Dumbbell, and a man who's showing the spirit of Scrooge, and you wonder. Can holiday magic triumph?

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Betty Jo Schuler writes at her central Florida home, where she collects teddy bears, glass paperweights, and what her grown kids call “Betty Jo-isms—sayings you have to think about twice. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got,” is one she likes about writing.

“I suppose that’s why I write in several genres,” she says. “I like trying something different.” And she must, since her fifteen published books run the gamut from romance novels to anti-bullying non-fiction and range in audience age from early chapter books to adult fiction.

Betty Jo, who has a B.S. and M.A. in elementary education and taught school for twenty-three years, instructs online courses, “Fundamentals of Writing for Children” and “You can Write a Romance” for Writer’s Digest.”