Since I just turned in book two of a series, my editor has asked me to start thinking about series titles. It's really hard! At Cerridwen Press we can't officially title a series until book three, but she wants to get in there and reserve something. It's tough! The first thing I have to decide is whether I want one series or two. The obvious first series is about the three Bellair siblings. I wrote about the youngest first (One Juror Down, coming in July), then the middle child (my editor will be reading it next weekend) and then there is the oldest sibling, John, whose marriage has just fallen apart. I have to decide if this marriage can be saved or if he'll get a new love. I rather think I'd like to save his marriage, but his wife Andrea has gone way off the deep end, and just deserted him and his two kids, plus said terrible things about his sisters. Something must really be wrong...
   Additionally, the middle child's significant other owns a bounty hunter agency, and I briefly introduced four new characters in the new book, the hero's employees/contractors. And there's the Seattle suburb-based drug gang that has been far from vanquished. So I can easily extend the series or start a new one with all these other cool characters.
   What is a writer to do?

 

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