A Friendly Challenge to My Fellow YA Authors: Be Crazy, I Dare You!

With all the big awards and Best of the Year and Best of the Decade lists that have come out in the last few weeks, I'm reminded of just how awesome and diverse the Young Adult genre is, and how lucky I am to be a part of it.  When I was a teenager, there were very few books I felt I could hold onto as mine, books that told my story from my point of view.  Now the field is so full, there's something for everybody: from vampires to sci-fi, from romance to LBGTQ to historical fiction, from ...