Book Awards: the Young Adult finalists
As part of our coverage of this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, we asked the five finalists of the Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction to interview each other. Here's Erin Donohue, Eileen Merriman, Cally Black, Mary-anne Scott and Gareth Ward on titles, inspiration and why they write YA. Erin Donohue: Why have you chosen to write Young Adult rather than another genre? Eileen Merriman: I find adolescence such a fascinating transition perio