My first YA novel very deliberately had an old-fashioned and somewhat Lovecraftian "voice", and it was one of the positives editors mentioned most frequently when my agent was shopping it. Wooden and voiceless or just plain terrible writing might be easier to digest for some readers, but it's definitely not a requirement for selling a book to a publisher, or the public, where YA is concerned.
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My first YA novel very deliberately had an old-fashioned and somewhat Lovecraftian "voice", and it was one of the positives editors mentioned most frequently when my agent was shopping it. Wooden and voiceless or just plain terrible writing might be easier to digest for some readers, but it's definitely not a requirement for selling a book to a publisher, or the public, where YA is concerned.
Thank you. I'll take faith in this.