Beetle Juice
“They were a set, to see how the notion of a changing mix of characters along a trail worked out. When I finished the first novel I took about ten days to catch up on other chores, then started in on the second.
And immediately had a problem. I am always conscious of the needs of my readers, and try to write what they will like, in a way they can readily assimilate. Sequels are problematic because the author can’t just assume that every reader has read the first novel and is clear for the second. In the bad old days of paper books—uh, let me rephrase that: in the nostalgic bygone days of physical books, distribution could be spotty, and the first novel in a series could be out of print by the time the second was published, making it impossible for a new reader to read them in order. Electronic publishing should abate that problem, but if a friend lends his electronic reader with a novel on it, it may not be the first in the series, which got deleted to make room for new books.
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