Going All the Way: Should You Write the Whole Trilogy Before You Query?

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

This week's Refresher Friday dips back to an updated look at writing trilogies. 

There are two views on writing trilogies. Write only the first book and see if it sells, and write the whole thing before you start querying.

I hadn't intended to write a trilogy when I started The Shifter , but as I wrote closer to the ending, I realized the story could continue for a few more books. There was a bigger world with bigger problems to explore, if I wanted to follow along.

Which I did. So I pitched the novel as a stand-alone that could continue as a trilogy, and that's how we sold it. The two editors who'd wanted it--one wanted the trilogy, the other the stand alone book. This is a good example of how this could have gone either way.

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