What's Better Than a Great Novel? A Series of Them! Series are popular in most genres and can help boost your visibility as an author. But how do you create one? How do you come up with an idea that will generate multiple stories in the same story world? This book explores all the factors that go into making a successful series, from testing your characters and story premise for series potential to tracking details as you write to ensure continuity. Content Series vs. Story - A New Mindset Types of Series - Episodic, Serial and u0026 Hybrid Soaps and u0026 Serials Creating a Series Premise or Story Engine Genre and u0026 Iconography Setting or Story World Themes Plots and u0026 Story Arcs Characters with Series Potential Character Development Arcs Protagonist vs. Antagonist Plots Romance Plots and u0026 Subplots Buddy Movies and u0026 Odd Couple Plots Friends to Betrayal and u0026 Revenge Plots Creating and u0026 Maintaining Suspense in a Series Creating a Series Bible Writing the First Novel in a Series Ending a Series and u0026 Extending a Series Spin-Offs and u0026 Shared Worlds Batch Writing and u0026 Rapid Release Writing a Romance SeriesIn these pages you will see how plot and character arcs can be used to tie novels in a series together, what to do if your series doesn't perform as well as you'd hoped, and where to go next if it exceeds expectations. By the author of Plot Basics, Character Creation and the multi-volume Genre Writer series