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Kate and Cecy sequels, part II-Caroline’s view

September 12, 2009 – 9:18 am

I asked Caroline to do a guest post on her view of writing Kate and Cecy, particularly The Mislaid Magician. And this is what she says:
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Pat said, “You’re going to kill me.”
That’s the way I remember my first encounter with THE MISLAID MAGICIAN. Pat Wrede and I were just finishing up with page proofs for [...]

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Writing a sequel - Kate and Cecy

September 9, 2009 – 12:00 pm

Alex asked “how you felt about the stand alone getting a sequel with the Kate and Cecelia books. I think you did an amazing job with escalation with these books, but did you have a hard time creating the right level of escalation?”
Well, for starters, “getting a sequel” isn’t quite the right phrase. The first [...]

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The escalation problem

September 5, 2009 – 9:34 am

The comments on the last post started getting into endings and the escalation of threat, particularly as related to series books, and I discovered I had quite a lot to say on the subject even though I haven’t written a long-running series myself.
The first thing is that not all trilogies or series are the same. [...]

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