Writing a Series by Jennifer Conner
Writing a series can be just as much fun for the
readers as it is for the writers. As a reader, I love books that don’t end when
you turn the last page. My favorites often continue with the same characters. My
favorites are Clarie and Jamie from the Outlander books or Eve and Roarke from
Nora Roberts In Death Series. Both married couples who argue, make mistakes and
are madly in love after MANY books.
I may not have started with the concept of making a
story a series, but as I wrote, I started to think of story lines with
brothers, sisters, or best-friends who were introduced. What was there story?
Was it worth telling?
Sometimes my stories are stand-alone with the tread
being a concept. In The Love List, I am writing with 3 other writers, but with
a common story thread. With my Dog Tails series the characters in the various
stories are not related, but have a common thread, they are all dog owners.
Book one, Central bark at Christmas addresses abandoned pets and shelters, Book
two, Christmas Gift that Keeps Wagging, covers trained seizure dogs and a
single dad with a special need little boy. Book three, Dog Tags, will be an
Army man with a dog he is trying to get home that he rescues in Afghanistan.
But in my Regimental Heroes series, they are all
friends who suffer from PTSD in Victorian England. Best-friends, and then his
brother and another friend with dyslexia. All brought together by the common
thread of war and the era that does not understand what they are going through.
What do you like to read? Stand-alone stories or if
you enjoy it, do you want it to go on and on like I do?
Bio:
Jennifer Conner is a best-selling
Northwest author who has forty short stories and books in print. She writes in
Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Paranormal Romance, Historical
Romance, and Erotica.
She has hit Amazon's top fifty authors
ranking and her books have been #1 in sales.
Her novel Shot in the Dark was a
finalist in the Emerald City Opener, Cleveland, and Toronto RWA contests.
Jennifer is an Associate Publisher for
the indie e-book publisher, Books to Go Now who resides in the Seattle area.
They pride themselves in helping new authors get their foot in the door with
well-edited manuscripts, professional covers, and platforms uploads.
She lives in a hundred year old house
that she grew up in. Her semi-small town holds an interesting mix of resident
hillbillies, yuppies and Navy Seals. And of course Seattle, only a few miles
away, is the birthplace of Starbucks so coffee is always on the check list. She
blows glass beads with a blow torch, (which relieves a lot of stress and people
don't bother you) and is a huge fan of musicals.
About Books To Go Now: (www.Bookstogonow.com)
Books to Go Now's Mission: Support our Authors. Promote their Works. Help them to Achieve Success.
Our staff works one-on-one with our authors to help them to create wonderful works of fiction. Upon publication we use a successful multi-platform strategy to promote and market their work. Our staff has helped many authors become International and Domestic Bestsellers.
Books to Go Now offers professional editing, cover design, multiple book format file creation, and most important—publicity. Our staff works to help make our author books a success one book at a time.
Books to Go Now's Mission: Support our Authors. Promote their Works. Help them to Achieve Success.
Our staff works one-on-one with our authors to help them to create wonderful works of fiction. Upon publication we use a successful multi-platform strategy to promote and market their work. Our staff has helped many authors become International and Domestic Bestsellers.
Books to Go Now offers professional editing, cover design, multiple book format file creation, and most important—publicity. Our staff works to help make our author books a success one book at a time.
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