Dystopian YA fiction really peaked in the 2010s. On the shelves next to Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy and Veronica Roth’s Divergent series was James Dashner’s Maze Runner trilogy, which, much ...

Rachel Sandell is an experienced editor and proofreader with a love for language and storytelling. A graduate of the creative writing MFA program, The Rainier Writing Workshop, she is the author of ...

YA fantasy and science fiction books have been wildly successful for decades, but the genre went supernova with the publication of J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in 1997.