Author Adrienne Kress has a guest post on Nathan Bransford's blog about why she writes for children . Her answer is pretty simple--she writes the kind of stories she likes. Although I haven't been published yet, I've had a couple of people ask me that question as well. They say things like: "Oh Jay, you're so talented. Why don't you write real books?" Or, "I know it's harder to get an adult book published, Jay, but I think you should try." Or even just "You're wasted writing books for kids." Notice how all of those comments have a couple of things in common. The first is that they all incorporate some kind of backhanded compliment about how I'm so awesome. And I am awesome, sincerely, but I'm also not the next coming of Shakespeare or Stephen King. I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination "above" the talent level of young adult literature. And that's the second thing--the idea that somehow au
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