Writers Life | Writing in series – the whys and hows

When you think of fiction, almost immediately book series come to mind. Whether it was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie books, or  Agatha Christies’ Hercule Poirot detective stories, or Harry Potter. Series grip readers’ minds and are much easier to market. One of the difficulties nowadays with traditional publishing is that many …

Fiction Friday | What Are Multi-Author Series?

Do you read multi-author series? Most book series are the work of a single author, and were relatively short with trilogies being probably the most common length. But the rise in the popularity of ebooks, the resulting increase in the number of self-published authors, and the introduction of the Kindle Unlimited subscription programme has meant …