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That Tricky Second Book!
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I think you should do what you think makes you grow as a writer. Move on, try something else, experiment. You can alway come back to write your first book's sequel after you've written a second or third or tenth unrelated book. If people liked your first one, they'll wait for its sequel.
I'd say do what you want as well. I wrote two in one series and two in the another before thinking about going back to series one to write a third book. Do what you want, you're the author. They'll wait for another book if they really want it.
Hi, thanks very much for your advice - is it coincidence that you are both authors? I wonder what a reader would say? But I find the suggestion to embrace something new matches what I think.
As an author, I'm also a reader (not as much as I should perhaps). As a reader, I'd say gimme gimme gimme. As an author, I'd say it's all up to you. Find a middle ground (or extreme) you can work with. You're not doing your readers any favors by writing a sequel to their favorite book when your heart's not into the characters/style/plot. It's just going to disappoint more than the wait. Just my 2 cents.
I'm an author. My readers asked for more and I gave them what they wanted. Of course, I had already started the sequel some time ago.
Some of my favorite authors write multiple series in parallel while interjecting stand-along novels into the mix along the way as well. I agree with others, that you should write what you are passionate about. I suspect that you might eventually want to come back to the original book and do the sequel that fans are clamoring for, but branching out may be a great way to extend your fan base to readers of other genres as well.
I am new here and just "following" this discussion. I am about to work on my second book but I have a few threads that I want to follow and it is tough working out what to do first. I think that my gut told me as I read the comments above that this is very true: (by C.M. "You're not doing your readers any favors by writing a sequel to their favorite book when your heart's not into the characters/style/plot"
I find that when I am writing what I am truly into I write way better than when I am writing the bits that I think I "should" write. I don't think that writing something different will in any way stop you from writing a sequel at another time?
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."Bernard Baruch (Financier/Statesman/Author) 1870 - 1965.
Last year I self published my first novel. Reviews and Ratings have so far been very good and, with only my own cottage industry marketing efforts, sales have been good. Of course pre publication I had hoped to sell 100 per week... I soon learned that was a tad ambitious. Many reviews of my book say they'd like a sequel. I'd rather write something completely different - new genre, new setting, new approach... am I crazy? Should I stick to what I've managed to do reasonably well? Should I give my readers what they want? What do you think?