11 Book Sequels You Probably Didn't Know Existed

Sometimes after you finish reading a book you just can’t wait to read the sequel, or the next one in the series. Finding out it’s a year away from publication, or even worse, that the author hasn’t written it yet, can be horrible.

Even worse, of course, is when Hollywood makes a sequel or a spinoff that is so bad you wish you could unsee it.

Mental Floss has compiled a list of eleven sequels to famous books, but these are sequels that either people have seldom heard of, or that pretty much no one read.

How many books about Tom Sawyer do you know about? Have you read the sequels to “Little Women”? Find out all these and more at: http://mentalfloss.com/article/12764/11-book-sequels-you-probably-didnt-know-existed

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Record Keeping or Building a Bible of your world

I’ve spoken before about the importance of keeping records especially when writing a series. It’s often termed building a bible of your world. That way your heroine will maintain the same eye color throughout the book, Tom won’t turn into Tim in chapter six, and the green planet orbiting your world won’t suddenly become blue.
Flavorwire has assembled copies of nine famous authors’ handwritten outlines for their books.
It’s fascinating. Enjoy.
http://flavorwire.com/391173/famous-authors-handwritten-outlines-for-great-works-of-literature


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Consistency within a series

Authors don't always plan to write a series, but a secondary character demands their own story, or more ideas keep coming, or the world is so engaging readers request more stories, and a series is born.
The author may have forgotten the placeholder name she used for some minor character, or the hair color of a child, or insignificant details of the world. Unfortunately the readers will not have forgotten and the author will be in trouble if facts have changed between book one and book three, unless there is an excellent reason which is explained in the book.
I recommend keeping a series "bible". This may be as simple as a spreadsheet with character names and defining characteristics on it, or as complicated as a book with every detail included. That's up to the author.
What is essential, however, is that Tim does not become Tom, a blue flower does not miraculously turn red, and the poisonous snakes that terrorised the villagers in book one do not suddenly disappear from the series without a convincing explanation.

Helen Woodall

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