I hope my novel will be the first in a series,that's if I ever finish editing it.
I've heard that agents look favourably on authors who intend to write more than one novel.
I hope my novel will be the first in a series,that's if I ever finish editing it.
I've heard that agents look favourably on authors who intend to write more than one novel.
Yes, and already have.
My 'The Emperor Initiative' series follows a 16-year-old boy as he fights against the scientists who genetically engineered him and want him back to finish the job of treating him as a lab rat.
My up-coming YA supernatural series features a schoolboy who puts his life on the line to stop ancient artefacts falling into the wrong hands, set in 1926.
Also, I've planned the first in a potential series which follows an inured war hero who returns to civilian life as a police man and finds himself in the middle of a German plot to end the World War early, set in 1917.
I think the thing with agents and "more than one book" is that it demonstrates that the author isn't a one-trick pony. If they're going to invest time and money then they want to be sure it's well spent.
I'm also writing a series - I always knew it would be so, but it has expanded from the original three books to six. I can also feel a few short stories coming along attached to some of the characters. It is interesting how sometimes a story can grow beyond your original expectations.
I did hear that agents like to know that you are either planning or already working on another book, whether related or not to the manuscript being pitched. It's quite something, these days, the package you need to present even to be considered by an agent - it's not just good enough to have one book these days!
I also have a series (or two) that I'm working on, where the same characters appear in each. In fact, the main character in my paranormal crime novel now stars in two short collections of short stories, currently available on Amazon Kindle, and I've found I've got to know her much better through writing these shorts, so I feel more confident about editing up the full-length novel.
As I've recently read that publishers also like someone who already has a following, I'm thinking that self-publishing via Kindle and gaining an audience before I start sending to publishers has got to be worth a try.