How I found critiquers, Part 2

When we last left our protagonist (in How I Found Critiquers, Part 1 ), she had just begun to work on YA novels, having focused previously on literary short fiction. She will now cease referring to herself in the third person, and will continue the story.

I had a bookcase full of YA novels that I read over and over, in between all the other things I read, and I finally decided I should try to write what I loved so well.  I took a class on children's writing with Vivian Grey (author of Moe...