Odom's latest venture into Buffy 's universe is the original novel Revenant . But it's the longest stand-alone, and it's going over really well. I've done five Sabrina novels, and I've been contracted for another one. I've got more fan mail over Sabrina , believe it or not, than I do Buffy . Basically, the YA stuff, I don't write beyond the kids.
Sex is taboo, and really violent gory death is taboo because a lot of publishers are afraid of that.
But the kids that are out there are all very familiar with violence. The YA Buffy that I did, Unnatural Selection , that I got a lot of fan mail on was the choreography of the fight scenes. Not fighting as much, but there's running and moving and things like that, and some of my editors have looked at my YA stuff when I first started out and going 'Hey, you're so descriptive with this stuff. So I try to write very visually. Eighty percent of the people out there are visually oriented.