My first mystery series, The Outsiders, has three published books, while my other two series have only one published book each. I have another book planned out for each of those series, and they’re all tugging at me to write them. I know the characters extremely well, and even without a full outline, I can anticipate much of what will need to happen in those books to get the characters from Point A to Point Z.
That’s not so with the book I’m currently writing, The Handyman. It’s the first book in a new mystery series. The book is set in a troglodyte village in France, similar to the village in my Outsiders series, but the characters are new. I’ve done a lot of background work–I know a great deal about each character. But a writer (at least most of us who don’t create full outlines beforehand) can’t really…
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