Why Authors Kill Off Characters You Love (and Why I’m Following Suit)

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WARNING: This post contains spoilers from every decent YA novel you probably should have read by now. Do not send me hate mail. 

You probably think writers sit at their computers all day, thinking up ways to make you throw their books out windows and cry (and then cry even harder because you just threw your new book out the window, all in that order). Look at it from our perspective. Do you really think we enjoy this part of the job description? Literary murder is not at the top of our Bucket Lists. Continue reading “Why Authors Kill Off Characters You Love (and Why I’m Following Suit)”