So I'm now starting to write Book 3 and I'm getting lost in all the 'side' stories. Do my readers just want a focus on the main characters or do they enjoy all the other story lines running along side?
In Book 1 I only had two other romances going as well as Ellie and Nate (The main characters). Sophie and Jack are developed characters that run accross all three books and Flora and Gabriel are very secondary characters that also run across all three books. In Book 2, Rose and Leo are the main characters and just like Ellie and Nate their story is only for their own book and doesnt really run on.
Do the readers want more of the main characters from 1 and 2 in Book 3? Or new characters?
How many other side stories can I put in without drawing away from the main characters?
As Book 3 is supposed to be the last in the series (unless I get a call for more from fans) I'm finding that each time I introduce a character I want to give them a story of their own.
For example, Alex. Alex is the brother of Ellie (Book 1) and the cousin of Rose (Book 2). He doesnt have a big part in either book but he is there. Shall I give him a back story? Shall I give him a happy ending all of his own?
If I keep going like this with all the other background characters then Book 3 is shaping up to be much longer than the first two!
Part of me wonders if the shift from character to character perspective is jarring for the reader. But then I figure that most people watch soaps and other tv shows which usually have several characters with seperate stories all running along side each other. The major british soaps have upwards of 30 or more characters all with story lines of their own and the scenes jump between them with no problem.
Hmm, I suppose that unless I get some feedback to sugget otherwise then I'm going to have to keep letting each character take on a story of their own and just hope that Book 3 gets finished on schedule!
Thursday 13 June 2013
Saturday 1 June 2013
The Flirting Games - FREE FOR 3 DAYS ONLY
Hurrah! Book 2 in Flirting Series went live on Amazon today
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Synopsis: Rose Falcon’s parents had a very good reason when they asked her to stay away from Leo Flanagan, a boy in her year. And for five years Rose managed to keep her distance from Leo. But in her sixth year at Compass Court Boarding School she seems unable to escape the attraction flaring between them. Perhaps no one need ever know. They could date in secret and just let the relationship run its course. But Leo has reasons of his own for wanting to keep their relationship a secret, reasons he won’t share with Rose, but they all seem somehow related to the beautiful Diana Carmel. It’s a relationship clearly doomed to failure, they should go back to staying away from each other, if they could just stop kissing!
And to celebrate - The Flirting Games (Book 1) will be free to download for three days! So get a copy right now! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C14KSH8
More Flirting Games
Synopsis: Rose Falcon’s parents had a very good reason when they asked her to stay away from Leo Flanagan, a boy in her year. And for five years Rose managed to keep her distance from Leo. But in her sixth year at Compass Court Boarding School she seems unable to escape the attraction flaring between them. Perhaps no one need ever know. They could date in secret and just let the relationship run its course. But Leo has reasons of his own for wanting to keep their relationship a secret, reasons he won’t share with Rose, but they all seem somehow related to the beautiful Diana Carmel. It’s a relationship clearly doomed to failure, they should go back to staying away from each other, if they could just stop kissing!
And to celebrate - The Flirting Games (Book 1) will be free to download for three days! So get a copy right now! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C14KSH8
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