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Deborah Halverson is the award-winning author of Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies and the forthcoming Writing the New Adult Novel: How to Write & Sell New Adult Fiction, as well as the founder of the popular writers’ advice website DearEditor.com. Deborah edited young adult and children’s fiction with Harcourt Children’s Books before picking up a pen to write the teen novels Honk If You Hate Me and Big Mouth, the picture book Letters to Santa, and three struggling reader books for the “Remix” series. She speaks extensively at workshops and conferences for writers and freelance edits adult fiction and nonfiction while specializing in teen fiction and picture books.

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Deborah’s “State of the Children’s Book Market” Zoom Event

When you’re creating children’s books, you don’t find out “current trends” in order to jump on the trend wagon. By the time your book is made, that trend may be over. You learn the trends to understand the industry in which you operate. Those and broader market must-knows are on my agenda for June 26, 2025, when I will present a Zoom event called “The State of the Children’s Book Market” for SCBWI

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	Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies by Deborah Halverson (Goodreads Author), M.T. Anderson (Foreword) 4.17 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing New Adult Fiction: How to Write and Sell New-Adult Fiction by Deborah Halverson (Goodreads Author), Sylvia Day (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.07 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honk If You Hate Me 3.38 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Mouth 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters to Santa by Deborah Halverson (Goodreads Author), Pauline Siewert (Illustrator) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies by Halverson, Deborah (2011) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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