For the past month, Sarah and I have been editing our two YA dystopian novels, The Price of Pandemonium and Darkness, Set Us Free. We’ve both spoken at length on the podcast about the challenges associated with each one.

The Price of Pandemonium, the second book in the series, is nearing completion—I’m doing my final major set of revisions before we send it off to our editor. It is (relatively) error-free, and most of my changes are minor tweaks to paragraphs to enhance the characters’ ...