(Dreaming up Sevia) Book Three

As I begin work on the third book in my series, a love story that unexpectedly brings together two minor characters from the earlier books, I find myself wanting to slow down a bit, to savor the writing process. After all, there’s nothing but “The End” at the finish line. Also, I’m getting a little nervous, because when I finish this one, I’ll be Halfway Through. All the couples will be together, more or less happily married. All the important minor characters will have been introduced. The stage of Sevia will be set.

And then it will be time to start writing the second half of the series. While the first three books in the Shards of Sevia series introduce the couples and show how they got together, the second three are intended to show how each new couple’s relationship grows and matures, how the romance–and the excitement and uncertainty–doesn’t end when the girl says, “Yes.”

In some ways, I look forward to writing Books 4, 5, and 6, but in others, I find it a little intimidating–after all, the driving force of a romance story is getting the two main characters together. Once they’re “happily married ever after,” how does the romance continue? What happens next? Will anybody want to read a romance where the two main characters are already together?

Stick with me, and we’ll see how this goes…