How to write a series character* - by Josh Stallings

 * and other things I wish I knew.

Q:How do you handle the passage of time and the aging of characters in your series?

As a reader my favorite series are ones that pick up relatively close to where the last book ended. I also like books that carry an emotional continuity from experiences in the last book into the next book. In Charlie Huston’s Henry Thompson novels (Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things, A Dangerous Man) he starts with a Hitchcockian everyman who is mistaken for a thief. His journey is ...