Exploration

Seeing as how I'm interested in YA literature and publishing fiction for young adults, a good starting point would be to check out other books that have already been published and also try to find out information on publishing.

A few YA books that I have found intersting:

• The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
• The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
• The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
• The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

I did find a few websites that publish books for young adults when I was looking into what it would take to publish the story I was working on over the summer (but had to put on hold for Grad school) and one looked promising--Authorhouse publishing.

Author House is a self-publishing company. You pay X amount of dollars, depending on which package you want and the services you need and then you submit your manuscript. Someone at the publishing Company contacts you on your progress and is basically "an agent" for you throughout the process. Turns out, I have a distant relative that works at Author House. I was also contacted by another company but the services were different and the cost was more. I've yet to find something that is better that I don't have to pay out of pocket to get started.