Paul Tobin
Well, after saying goodbye last week, here I am again. Turns out that Night Shade had a wee bit more free space for my compatriots and I to share our thoughts, and I couldn’t pass up a chance to talk about this week’s topic of writing stand-alone books vs. writing a series. It’s something that’s been heavily on my mind as I consider how I’d like the path of my career to evolve, and it’s a monstrously huge decision.
Let’s make up a series, here, for the benefit of this post. Maybe something with a werewolf. A female werewolf. In Regency times. A lesser noblewoman with a curse. Okay… the Hirsute Heiress. Boom. We’ve got our book. Now, as I plot out the adventures of the Hirsute Heiress, I’m envisioning an arc that lasts between five to seven books. The first book will be of how she’s sold into a form of slavery with a traveling carnival, and then how she grows to command them into an underground army of thieves and ne’er-do-wells. In the second book she tries to regain her family fortune, but the criminal Jonathan Wild has cheated them into the poorhouse. It’s time for a Newgate prison break! This will be great… I could write on this for years.
But… should I?
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