DiYA is back on Tumblr!

Posted by on Mar 11, 2013 in Blog, Featured, News | Comments Off Remember when we (YA authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo) shuttered Diversity in YA at the end of 2011 because we only planned to do this site for one year? Well … people kept asking us to talk about diversity! (A wonderful surprise!) And we realized that Tumblr is an awesome platform, and maybe we could continue DiYA in Tumblr form. So now we’re on tumblr! DiYA on Tumblr is a little...
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DiYA Comes to an End

Posted by on Jan 2, 2012 in Blog, Featured | 15 comments Malinda Lo: Cindy, can you believe 2011 is over? Cindy Pon: No, I can’t! It is crazy! Malinda: I know! Can you believe Diversity in YA is over? Cindy: Well, that I can. We’d been planning it for so long—it was really great to finally see it all come together. I’m sure I can talk you into doing it again, right? ☺ Malinda:Haha! No comment. You remember when we started thinking...
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A Year of Thinking About Diversity

Posted by on Dec 19, 2011 in Blog, Featured | 5 comments When Cindy Pon and I first talked about launching Diversity in YA, I was motivated by a desire to bring attention to books about non-white and/or non-straight characters in a positive way. I did not want to box these books in as problem novels, as many of them have been positioned over the years (recognizing that the term “problem novel” itself is problematic). I also didn’t...
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Interview with Alvina Ling

Posted by on Dec 12, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Interviews | 6 comments Today I am pleased to welcome Alvina Ling, Editorial Director at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, to Diversity in YA. Founded in 1837, Little, Brown is now a division of Hachette Book Group, one of the world’s largest publishers. LBYR is the publisher of many internationally bestselling books, including the Twilight and Gossip Girl series, as well as award-winning books about people...
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Delia Sherman on The Freedom Maze

Posted by on Dec 8, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Guest Posts, Middle Grade | 2 comments When I began writing The Freedom Maze, back in 1987, I didn’t intend to write a book about race. I intended to write a book about time travel and a shy, bookish girl who learned that adventures are very different to read about than to live. I set it in Louisiana because I like Louisiana and have spent a certain amount of time down there when I was a child, visiting my mother’s family. I sent...
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Interview with Cassandra Clare

Posted by on Dec 5, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Interviews, Young Adult | 5 comments Cassandra Clare is the author of the bestselling Mortal Instruments trilogy, beginning with City of Bones, which introduced the half-angel Shadowhunters who keep the ordinary world safe from demons. Clare’s latest book, Clockwork Prince, is the second in a prequel trilogy, The Infernal Devices, set in Victorian London. The first installment of this prequel trilogy, Clockwork Angel, brought...
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