Step carefully

A fan called Lily sent me the following question today:

When you were sending stuff out to agents (like a query), how did you go about saying you wanted to have a series? I've heard several people say that saying, "I have a (number) book series waiting to be published" or something along that line will get you rejected. So how did you go about getting 12 of your books in the Cirque du Freak series published?

I think a series normally IS problematic in the majority of cases. I actually didn't...