“He wears a leather jacket, he skips school to look pensive leaning against walls and he’s always carrying a deep secret. This is Brooding Young Adult Hero — a parody account that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and insightful as its protagonist calls out the all too common tropes of YA fiction. Brooding Young Adult Hero’s amazing creator, Carrie Ann, is a writer from Pittsburgh who originally created the account as an inside joke and then watched in awe as it gained more than 20,000 followers. She’s also a social media/marketing intern for an amazing indie film called Progression! I caught up with Carrie to talk about how Brooding YA Hero came about, some of her personal pet peeves in YA books, being followed by Jodi Picoult and the awesome qualities of fanfiction…”
We talked to the genius behind the Brooding YA Hero parody Twitter account.
Posted by HelloGiggles on Sunday, December 20, 2015