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By the Numbers: YA Titles (Update!)

I was looking over the title sample from my last post, and I realized that even though I removed “series” and “novel”, most of the top words were showing up most often in the parenthetical series names that followed the actual titles. So, just for fun, I removed all of the subtitles and series identifiers and ran the word cloud again. Here’s the new image:

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Source: Wordle

Turns out Shadow and Clockwork are still leaders, but “Chronicle” fell off completely and “Dark” dropped down a few tiers. Th...

By the Numbers: YA Titles

The other day I came across a pretty old, but very cool post about YA covers that was linked to from a book review on Grantland. In the post, author Jillian Audrey does a visual analysis of recent YA covers and points out a few pretty pervasive trends (the mope is my favorite–if I see another bedraggled looking girl in a dreamy prom dress I may scream). It got me thinking about titles and covers, and since I just saw my own cover for the first time, I thought it’d be fun to follow Jillian’s l...

Goodreads

Nothing better than having this unexpectedly show up in my inbox as part of my usual Goodreads update:

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Thanks, Valerie!