[ SECRET POST #1978 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1978 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Friending Meme if people want to add each other on DW!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Redwall? Mistmantle? Guardians of Ga'Hoole? One for Sorrow, Two for Joy? The Sight/Firebringer? Watership Down? Nimh? And that's not even including fictional animals--Age of Fire, anyone?

Erin Hunter hasn't cornered the market. "Animal story" is far too wide a category to be cornered by a single author, even if that author is actually a collective.

Focus on your own writing. Come up with a creative, unique idea and hone your writing skills. If your book is good enough, "Erin Hunter" can publish a hundred animal books and it won't matter.

same anon

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, and if you don't believe me: http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-editors-have-bought-recently-young.html

From a well-respected literary agent, one of the most recent sales she's heard from editors is "animal character middle grade fantasy."

People still want animal kid books, and they want them from people other than Erin Hunter. You've got a shot at it. Just write the best story you can.

[(Anonymous)]

The Wild Road, Tailchaser's Song, and Plague Dogs, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Couldn't get through Plague Dogs--odd, because I loved Watership Down.

But now I'm gonna go find The Wild Road and Tailchaser's Song. Thanks for the recs~

[kitty_wake]

The Wild Road has a sequel, called "The Golden Cat". Personally I think the writing style in those books is a little overdone, a little purple, but if you can live with it they're pretty engaging.

[(Anonymous)]

I had to skip the human bits of The Plague Dogs; I love Adams' writing style but sometimes he just goes ON and ON.

[(Anonymous)]

mercedes lackey black griffon trilogy for fictional animals

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing series.

Watership Down is not a kid's book

[zogblaster]

It's a book that some children read, which is not at all the same thing. Someone expecting Erin Hunter style adventures, and instead reading graphic rabbit genocide? Not a happy 8-year-old.