LeeFlower said:This might be a bad idea, but my first instinct would be to open chapter two with the classic "FIVE YEARS LATER..."
That's actually the one option I wanted to avoid most.
LeeFlower said:This might be a bad idea, but my first instinct would be to open chapter two with the classic "FIVE YEARS LATER..."
James D. Macdonald said:You can get a copy here: http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Apocalypse-Door_W0QQprZ1696625QQtgZinfo
aertep said:By the way, "The Historian" is told in the first person, but there are several "first persons" telling the story, and most of them are not female.
Allynegirl said:I don't ever remember reading a book in first person that ever moved that 1st person view to someone else.
Allynegirl said:Here I am trying to catch up to the end of this thread and I come across this lightbulb moment. I don't ever remember reading a book in first person that ever moved that 1st person view to someone else. hmmm, interesting.
James D. Macdonald said:Sell just the one book. That book needs to have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
If that first book doesn't sell it won't have any sequels.
I understand a lot of editors feel this way. But a "series character" where each book is a stand-alone and subsequent volumes keep the same cast of characters with a different plot is, I think, a different story. Many editors are on the lookout for a book with that potential, since readers can be very loyal to a particular cast of characters, esp in mysteries and urban fantasy.James D. Macdonald said:Just recently I was chatting with an editor at Major New York Publisher (and not the one you're thinking of, either). The editor said, "I'm sick of trilogies! I never want to see another trilogy! If you can't tell your story in one book I don't want to see it!"