Adults may be unfamiliar with this 26 year-old author of "light novels" – a genre of short, accessible fiction pioneered in Japan – but youths adore her. Stories written by Yu Wo, whose real name is Chen Wen-hsuan, usually appear online first, before being printed as low-priced paperbacks with manga-style illustrations, and they sell like hotcakes. In just a few years, Yu Wo has become as popular among Taiwanese tweens – young people in late childhood and early adolescence – as essayist Lung Ying-tai is among Taiwanese adults.