I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

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