Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Nice! The cadence also reminds me of the first line of Anna Karenina (Garnett's English translation, I believe), so bonus points!

abc - I really like your opening sentence. Seems like it would be very appealing to a curious MG reader.

Here's mine (contemporary YA):
Ten months ago, I was nobody – no one took me on fancy dates or paid special attention to me, but no one wanted to kill me, either.

For anyone out there writing YA, have you shared (or do you plan to share) your manuscript with teenagers for feedback? If so, what kind of feedback are you looking for from them, besides the obvious question of whether they liked it or not? And how/where do you find these teen readers (friends' kid...

EDIT: Found a critique partner. Thanks, Erica75! Hi all, Anyone interested in critiquing a contemporary YA romance with a time travel twist? The manuscript has already been through six rewrites (the next rewrite should be finished in the next week, I hope), so I'd love if someone else had a book tha...