For example, after I read Bill Condon's A Straight Line to My Heartand Fiona Wood's Six Impossible Things, I became determined to read everything else those two authors have written. There are hundreds of previously published Australian YA books that are just begging for me (us!) to read them. Do you know what this means? BACKLOG, people.
I was familiar with many of them but others, not so much, and it's really only been in the past two or three years that I've noticed Aussie YA becoming more popular in the US. When Shirley Marr, Australian author of Fury and Preloved, did a guest post for us on her Preloved blog tour, she made mention of several other writers. (The only one I own is Finding Cassie Crazy, so go ahead and buy me the other three, okay?) I feel like I've written so many odes to Australian YA authors because each one is better than the next. Two of the four pictured to the left I read on book tours, one I read from the library, and it is killing me softly that I don't own them yet. The only negative about them is that they are so hard to find over here. It's a widely known fact, at least in my living room, that I think Australians write the best slice of life stories in the young adult section.
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