Heather Kirchhoff's Blog: Writer, Reader, Reviewer - Posts Tagged "magic-series"

Hey! So recently I've come across a book that I read a few reviews for it to see if I'd be interested in giving it a try. I saw one that said that the book just stops, and that it's really short. The reviewer then said that she felt ripped off because of it and that said reviwer thought the author only did it for advertisement. I began thinking about my series and the fact that they're only a little over one hundred pages, including the acknowledgements and about the author. Because of this I decided to talk a little bit about them.

I had planned for my Magic series to have six books originally back when I started writing the first book in eighth grade. Then the book was longer and horrible. I'll admit it, the first time I wrote Dusk, it wasn't good. But I really wanted to published this series, and so, after I published my first book, The Last Night, I got an idea for the series, and instantly fell in love. Now the series is different than it would have been, and I'm glad about that. Only thing is, the books are also shorter. And fast paced.

There are a few things I left that are similar. Like some of the characters names and the fact that Meagan is The Powerful One. She is the only witch in these books that is extremely powerful--she is the only one that has more than one power. Why? Well, you'll find out in the final book, Dawn of the Shooting Star.

The titles are also the same, aside from the fourth book. At first, Dawn of the Shooting Star was called just Dawn, but then I kind of wanted to combine the fourth with the fifth book, Shooting Star, and that's how the title came to be. My formatter suggested it to me.

Anyways, the books are novellas. I've seen authors with books that are as short as Dusk, Daybreak, and Lightning Strike--if not shorter--and there was reviews saying how unhappy a reader was because of the book just stopping. Also because of the length, and that they felt ripped off. So I'm here to say that my Magic series are novellas. I'm hoping this blog post will warn you of that, so readers aren't upset over that fact. There are paperbacks of the first three books, though.