An Englishman now living in an obscure corner of New Mexico, Brian Dolton has traveled widely. He’s watched the sun set over Saharan dunes from the back of a camel; he’s played volleyball on a sandbar in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; he’s stayed in a Buddhist monastery on a sacred mountain in Japan. Occasionally, between all these distractions (and the need to do dull things with computers to pay the bills), he manages to write.
- Listen to his short story, entitled “Where the Dacouvri Died.”
- Visit Brian on Goodreads.
To me, the essence of any good young adult story is two-fold. First, there is the element of an innocence that is being broken open and exposed, a young person sidling up to adulthood without all the trappings of wisdom, experience and baggage that we adults have. And second, there is an aspect of rebellion, of throwing off what we've been taught, or told, or been held to as children. Our parents, or guardians, or society say "No" and we say "Hell yes!" and we go for it. 
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