Pat here: As readers, we probably started talking of world building in fantasy, where the monsters had to have their own society, their own faults and strengths, and the setting had to make them real.
But now, as series become more popular in other genres, we’re all engaging in some lengthy world building. When I first started writing about the Magical Malcolms about ten years ago, I was simply creating a world of characters with special psychic abilities. Yes, the era was Georgian, but the setting wasn’t as important as how the characters felt about being weird in a normal world.
About the same time, Jayne Ann Krentz started mixing her Arcane Society paranormal romances into her historical world. JR Ward turned vampires into contemporary romance, and suddenly, any kind of series was hot and could branch off in any direction as long as the reader could buy into the richly-created worlds they built.
I’ll admit, I love the world building, but it’s not easy when limited by history—or a related series.
Right now, I’m attempting to build an 1830 Malcolm and Ives generation. Their names have changed over the past century, but these are aristocrats vested in their homes 
and land. The titled characters, at least, can’t stray far. But now the Ives London home built off St. James Square in the Georgian era is old and crowded in between new houses and businesses. I’ve been having entirely too much fun exploring the British history site telling what happened to each house in the area.
Go ahead, click a street. The detail on the history, what houses stood where, what those houses looked like and who lived in them is amazing. I, of course, discarded everything but the kind of buildings I might find off the main thoroughfares. Just trying to get St James Park correct for 1830 gave me enough headaches.
Since there are no photographs from 1830, for obvious reasons, I can only peruse drawings, but if you look at photo montages from the Victorian era, it’s obvious that the monuments we all know and love today didn’t look that much different back then. We just need to adjust our heads to carriages and horses.
This is all research we’ve always done in historical romance, but to generate real world-building, we need to develop characters and settings, and in my case, the 
psychic elements, that connect through a large number of books. Readers need to see the moldy old hall uninhabited by women for decades gradually transform as the various characters marry and women move in. The house off St. James must transform from a shabby rental into the home of a wealthy marquess. The surly character in Book One must develop reasons for his surliness over the course of the series and have it resolved in his own story. A villain from Book One must get his come-uppance in some book down the line.
What is it you most enjoy in reading series—seeing the characters develop? Watching how previous characters are doing? Or do you really dig the setting? What series are you currently following and why?
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Fun topic, Pat, and what a great London street website! You discuss two elements of world building: the physical, in which I include your rules of magic, and the characters. Both are needed for a good continuing series. I’m a natural series writer in that my characters are always connecting with others that I write about later, but the physical world building you describe can get very complex. With SFF series, that world building of imaginary worlds is critical. For us, history is a limitation but also a huge shortcut. *G*
Fun topic, Pat, and what a great London street website! You discuss two elements of world building: the physical, in which I include your rules of magic, and the characters. Both are needed for a good continuing series. I’m a natural series writer in that my characters are always connecting with others that I write about later, but the physical world building you describe can get very complex. With SFF series, that world building of imaginary worlds is critical. For us, history is a limitation but also a huge shortcut. *G*
Fun topic, Pat, and what a great London street website! You discuss two elements of world building: the physical, in which I include your rules of magic, and the characters. Both are needed for a good continuing series. I’m a natural series writer in that my characters are always connecting with others that I write about later, but the physical world building you describe can get very complex. With SFF series, that world building of imaginary worlds is critical. For us, history is a limitation but also a huge shortcut. *G*
Fun topic, Pat, and what a great London street website! You discuss two elements of world building: the physical, in which I include your rules of magic, and the characters. Both are needed for a good continuing series. I’m a natural series writer in that my characters are always connecting with others that I write about later, but the physical world building you describe can get very complex. With SFF series, that world building of imaginary worlds is critical. For us, history is a limitation but also a huge shortcut. *G*
Fun topic, Pat, and what a great London street website! You discuss two elements of world building: the physical, in which I include your rules of magic, and the characters. Both are needed for a good continuing series. I’m a natural series writer in that my characters are always connecting with others that I write about later, but the physical world building you describe can get very complex. With SFF series, that world building of imaginary worlds is critical. For us, history is a limitation but also a huge shortcut. *G*
For me, it is ALWAYS characters; characters who I like, characters who grow, characters who perhaps become friends who I visit and revisit frequently. Having said that, the setting is important. If there is a time frame involved I dislike inconsistencies. Even details like hair color or eye color must remain consistent (a brown-haired female with blue eyes must remains so throughout unless beauty parlors, wigs, and or contact lenses are clearly mentioned; and they aren’t allowed to occur before their time in history).
When the world is fantasy or science fiction the world needs to be presented richly, but the author doesn’t need to tell us everything. In the best cases, the author merely shows the differences without much explanation.
As the Pern stories expanded, Anne McCaffrey presented reasons for earlier statements that hadn’t been necessary earlier. This is a clear case of the consistency imposed by writing series that you mentioned above. On the other hand Mercedes Lackey’s Herolds of Valdemar Series has been fairly consistent from its first appearance. Either approach works in my mind.
For me, it is ALWAYS characters; characters who I like, characters who grow, characters who perhaps become friends who I visit and revisit frequently. Having said that, the setting is important. If there is a time frame involved I dislike inconsistencies. Even details like hair color or eye color must remain consistent (a brown-haired female with blue eyes must remains so throughout unless beauty parlors, wigs, and or contact lenses are clearly mentioned; and they aren’t allowed to occur before their time in history).
When the world is fantasy or science fiction the world needs to be presented richly, but the author doesn’t need to tell us everything. In the best cases, the author merely shows the differences without much explanation.
As the Pern stories expanded, Anne McCaffrey presented reasons for earlier statements that hadn’t been necessary earlier. This is a clear case of the consistency imposed by writing series that you mentioned above. On the other hand Mercedes Lackey’s Herolds of Valdemar Series has been fairly consistent from its first appearance. Either approach works in my mind.
For me, it is ALWAYS characters; characters who I like, characters who grow, characters who perhaps become friends who I visit and revisit frequently. Having said that, the setting is important. If there is a time frame involved I dislike inconsistencies. Even details like hair color or eye color must remain consistent (a brown-haired female with blue eyes must remains so throughout unless beauty parlors, wigs, and or contact lenses are clearly mentioned; and they aren’t allowed to occur before their time in history).
When the world is fantasy or science fiction the world needs to be presented richly, but the author doesn’t need to tell us everything. In the best cases, the author merely shows the differences without much explanation.
As the Pern stories expanded, Anne McCaffrey presented reasons for earlier statements that hadn’t been necessary earlier. This is a clear case of the consistency imposed by writing series that you mentioned above. On the other hand Mercedes Lackey’s Herolds of Valdemar Series has been fairly consistent from its first appearance. Either approach works in my mind.
For me, it is ALWAYS characters; characters who I like, characters who grow, characters who perhaps become friends who I visit and revisit frequently. Having said that, the setting is important. If there is a time frame involved I dislike inconsistencies. Even details like hair color or eye color must remain consistent (a brown-haired female with blue eyes must remains so throughout unless beauty parlors, wigs, and or contact lenses are clearly mentioned; and they aren’t allowed to occur before their time in history).
When the world is fantasy or science fiction the world needs to be presented richly, but the author doesn’t need to tell us everything. In the best cases, the author merely shows the differences without much explanation.
As the Pern stories expanded, Anne McCaffrey presented reasons for earlier statements that hadn’t been necessary earlier. This is a clear case of the consistency imposed by writing series that you mentioned above. On the other hand Mercedes Lackey’s Herolds of Valdemar Series has been fairly consistent from its first appearance. Either approach works in my mind.
For me, it is ALWAYS characters; characters who I like, characters who grow, characters who perhaps become friends who I visit and revisit frequently. Having said that, the setting is important. If there is a time frame involved I dislike inconsistencies. Even details like hair color or eye color must remain consistent (a brown-haired female with blue eyes must remains so throughout unless beauty parlors, wigs, and or contact lenses are clearly mentioned; and they aren’t allowed to occur before their time in history).
When the world is fantasy or science fiction the world needs to be presented richly, but the author doesn’t need to tell us everything. In the best cases, the author merely shows the differences without much explanation.
As the Pern stories expanded, Anne McCaffrey presented reasons for earlier statements that hadn’t been necessary earlier. This is a clear case of the consistency imposed by writing series that you mentioned above. On the other hand Mercedes Lackey’s Herolds of Valdemar Series has been fairly consistent from its first appearance. Either approach works in my mind.
Your world-building is more cultural, I think. You’ve built a society of men coming from the same school, the same army, similar backgrounds of a sort. I’m more comfortable with building houses.
Your world-building is more cultural, I think. You’ve built a society of men coming from the same school, the same army, similar backgrounds of a sort. I’m more comfortable with building houses.
Your world-building is more cultural, I think. You’ve built a society of men coming from the same school, the same army, similar backgrounds of a sort. I’m more comfortable with building houses.
Your world-building is more cultural, I think. You’ve built a society of men coming from the same school, the same army, similar backgrounds of a sort. I’m more comfortable with building houses.
Your world-building is more cultural, I think. You’ve built a society of men coming from the same school, the same army, similar backgrounds of a sort. I’m more comfortable with building houses.
Oh, you’re one of the dangerous ones who have a memory! Ack, ack, alas and alack! I have no memory. I’ve learned to keep detailed charts–and even then I forget to go back and look until my beautiful proofreaders point out discrepancies. I agree, this is Bad from series standpoint. But details like that definitely require a good proofreader.
I’ve been taught I shouldn’t introduce a subject until it was needed, so sometimes it’s a matter of craft. Interesting point!
Oh, you’re one of the dangerous ones who have a memory! Ack, ack, alas and alack! I have no memory. I’ve learned to keep detailed charts–and even then I forget to go back and look until my beautiful proofreaders point out discrepancies. I agree, this is Bad from series standpoint. But details like that definitely require a good proofreader.
I’ve been taught I shouldn’t introduce a subject until it was needed, so sometimes it’s a matter of craft. Interesting point!
Oh, you’re one of the dangerous ones who have a memory! Ack, ack, alas and alack! I have no memory. I’ve learned to keep detailed charts–and even then I forget to go back and look until my beautiful proofreaders point out discrepancies. I agree, this is Bad from series standpoint. But details like that definitely require a good proofreader.
I’ve been taught I shouldn’t introduce a subject until it was needed, so sometimes it’s a matter of craft. Interesting point!
Oh, you’re one of the dangerous ones who have a memory! Ack, ack, alas and alack! I have no memory. I’ve learned to keep detailed charts–and even then I forget to go back and look until my beautiful proofreaders point out discrepancies. I agree, this is Bad from series standpoint. But details like that definitely require a good proofreader.
I’ve been taught I shouldn’t introduce a subject until it was needed, so sometimes it’s a matter of craft. Interesting point!
Oh, you’re one of the dangerous ones who have a memory! Ack, ack, alas and alack! I have no memory. I’ve learned to keep detailed charts–and even then I forget to go back and look until my beautiful proofreaders point out discrepancies. I agree, this is Bad from series standpoint. But details like that definitely require a good proofreader.
I’ve been taught I shouldn’t introduce a subject until it was needed, so sometimes it’s a matter of craft. Interesting point!
I love the Archangel series from Nalini Singh, the Breed series from Lora Leigh, and Christine Feehan’s Dark and GhostWalkers series. The characters less then the surroundings or timeframe are more important to the plots. I like them and I like your Malcolms and JAK’s Arcane Society. I just hopeless; I like them all. 🙂
I love the Archangel series from Nalini Singh, the Breed series from Lora Leigh, and Christine Feehan’s Dark and GhostWalkers series. The characters less then the surroundings or timeframe are more important to the plots. I like them and I like your Malcolms and JAK’s Arcane Society. I just hopeless; I like them all. 🙂
I love the Archangel series from Nalini Singh, the Breed series from Lora Leigh, and Christine Feehan’s Dark and GhostWalkers series. The characters less then the surroundings or timeframe are more important to the plots. I like them and I like your Malcolms and JAK’s Arcane Society. I just hopeless; I like them all. 🙂
I love the Archangel series from Nalini Singh, the Breed series from Lora Leigh, and Christine Feehan’s Dark and GhostWalkers series. The characters less then the surroundings or timeframe are more important to the plots. I like them and I like your Malcolms and JAK’s Arcane Society. I just hopeless; I like them all. 🙂
I love the Archangel series from Nalini Singh, the Breed series from Lora Leigh, and Christine Feehan’s Dark and GhostWalkers series. The characters less then the surroundings or timeframe are more important to the plots. I like them and I like your Malcolms and JAK’s Arcane Society. I just hopeless; I like them all. 🙂
We like that you like them all! And it’s good to know that it’s the character that counts, because they’re most important to me too.
We like that you like them all! And it’s good to know that it’s the character that counts, because they’re most important to me too.
We like that you like them all! And it’s good to know that it’s the character that counts, because they’re most important to me too.
We like that you like them all! And it’s good to know that it’s the character that counts, because they’re most important to me too.
We like that you like them all! And it’s good to know that it’s the character that counts, because they’re most important to me too.
Without detailed world-building (physical, cultural, metaphysical) the story can’t exist. Characterization is rooted in the world, because those characters cannot possibly exist in any other world. These are not universal characters (though certain thoughts and actions are common to all humans), but rather products of their times. So to some extent setting comes first and characters arise from the setting.
Without detailed world-building (physical, cultural, metaphysical) the story can’t exist. Characterization is rooted in the world, because those characters cannot possibly exist in any other world. These are not universal characters (though certain thoughts and actions are common to all humans), but rather products of their times. So to some extent setting comes first and characters arise from the setting.
Without detailed world-building (physical, cultural, metaphysical) the story can’t exist. Characterization is rooted in the world, because those characters cannot possibly exist in any other world. These are not universal characters (though certain thoughts and actions are common to all humans), but rather products of their times. So to some extent setting comes first and characters arise from the setting.
Without detailed world-building (physical, cultural, metaphysical) the story can’t exist. Characterization is rooted in the world, because those characters cannot possibly exist in any other world. These are not universal characters (though certain thoughts and actions are common to all humans), but rather products of their times. So to some extent setting comes first and characters arise from the setting.
Without detailed world-building (physical, cultural, metaphysical) the story can’t exist. Characterization is rooted in the world, because those characters cannot possibly exist in any other world. These are not universal characters (though certain thoughts and actions are common to all humans), but rather products of their times. So to some extent setting comes first and characters arise from the setting.
Pat, I’m truly impressed that you research detailed maps for historical accuracy! I fear that such detail would be largely wasted on me though.
I like a series to develop a community or group, exploiting the personal links. Rather like MJPs Lost Lords or Fallen Angels in the historical setting.
On the SciFi/paranormal front I like series linking characters with some specific unusual talent. Thinking especially of Anne McCaffrey with her ‘Talents’ or ‘Dragons of Pern’.
I don’t like the ‘unusual’ talent to be too far removed from scientific plausibility. Psychic abilities can be easily imagined as extensions of current fledgling abilities for example. Genetically engineered dragons are OK but demons from the underworld are pushing it a bit for my liking!
Thanks for the starter library Pat. Just started on ‘Mystic Isle’ which seems to have been inspired by the Atlantis legend? Will comment properly when I finish it 🙂
Pat, I’m truly impressed that you research detailed maps for historical accuracy! I fear that such detail would be largely wasted on me though.
I like a series to develop a community or group, exploiting the personal links. Rather like MJPs Lost Lords or Fallen Angels in the historical setting.
On the SciFi/paranormal front I like series linking characters with some specific unusual talent. Thinking especially of Anne McCaffrey with her ‘Talents’ or ‘Dragons of Pern’.
I don’t like the ‘unusual’ talent to be too far removed from scientific plausibility. Psychic abilities can be easily imagined as extensions of current fledgling abilities for example. Genetically engineered dragons are OK but demons from the underworld are pushing it a bit for my liking!
Thanks for the starter library Pat. Just started on ‘Mystic Isle’ which seems to have been inspired by the Atlantis legend? Will comment properly when I finish it 🙂
Pat, I’m truly impressed that you research detailed maps for historical accuracy! I fear that such detail would be largely wasted on me though.
I like a series to develop a community or group, exploiting the personal links. Rather like MJPs Lost Lords or Fallen Angels in the historical setting.
On the SciFi/paranormal front I like series linking characters with some specific unusual talent. Thinking especially of Anne McCaffrey with her ‘Talents’ or ‘Dragons of Pern’.
I don’t like the ‘unusual’ talent to be too far removed from scientific plausibility. Psychic abilities can be easily imagined as extensions of current fledgling abilities for example. Genetically engineered dragons are OK but demons from the underworld are pushing it a bit for my liking!
Thanks for the starter library Pat. Just started on ‘Mystic Isle’ which seems to have been inspired by the Atlantis legend? Will comment properly when I finish it 🙂
Pat, I’m truly impressed that you research detailed maps for historical accuracy! I fear that such detail would be largely wasted on me though.
I like a series to develop a community or group, exploiting the personal links. Rather like MJPs Lost Lords or Fallen Angels in the historical setting.
On the SciFi/paranormal front I like series linking characters with some specific unusual talent. Thinking especially of Anne McCaffrey with her ‘Talents’ or ‘Dragons of Pern’.
I don’t like the ‘unusual’ talent to be too far removed from scientific plausibility. Psychic abilities can be easily imagined as extensions of current fledgling abilities for example. Genetically engineered dragons are OK but demons from the underworld are pushing it a bit for my liking!
Thanks for the starter library Pat. Just started on ‘Mystic Isle’ which seems to have been inspired by the Atlantis legend? Will comment properly when I finish it 🙂
Pat, I’m truly impressed that you research detailed maps for historical accuracy! I fear that such detail would be largely wasted on me though.
I like a series to develop a community or group, exploiting the personal links. Rather like MJPs Lost Lords or Fallen Angels in the historical setting.
On the SciFi/paranormal front I like series linking characters with some specific unusual talent. Thinking especially of Anne McCaffrey with her ‘Talents’ or ‘Dragons of Pern’.
I don’t like the ‘unusual’ talent to be too far removed from scientific plausibility. Psychic abilities can be easily imagined as extensions of current fledgling abilities for example. Genetically engineered dragons are OK but demons from the underworld are pushing it a bit for my liking!
Thanks for the starter library Pat. Just started on ‘Mystic Isle’ which seems to have been inspired by the Atlantis legend? Will comment properly when I finish it 🙂
that last line is beautifully true for any book, not just series!
that last line is beautifully true for any book, not just series!
that last line is beautifully true for any book, not just series!
that last line is beautifully true for any book, not just series!
that last line is beautifully true for any book, not just series!
I don’t always do map research. But this time, I knew I’d have a blind marquess wandering around, and I needed to know his surroundings to keep him grounded in some form of reality since he can’t get very far.
Ditto the psychic abilities. That’s what I’m trying to do with the various Magic books.
I hope you enjoy Mystic Isle. It’s actually the base for the rest of the Mystic series, explaining how the Mystic Isle came about, but I do borrow from Atlantis. Hope I ground that series well enough to be interesting!
I don’t always do map research. But this time, I knew I’d have a blind marquess wandering around, and I needed to know his surroundings to keep him grounded in some form of reality since he can’t get very far.
Ditto the psychic abilities. That’s what I’m trying to do with the various Magic books.
I hope you enjoy Mystic Isle. It’s actually the base for the rest of the Mystic series, explaining how the Mystic Isle came about, but I do borrow from Atlantis. Hope I ground that series well enough to be interesting!
I don’t always do map research. But this time, I knew I’d have a blind marquess wandering around, and I needed to know his surroundings to keep him grounded in some form of reality since he can’t get very far.
Ditto the psychic abilities. That’s what I’m trying to do with the various Magic books.
I hope you enjoy Mystic Isle. It’s actually the base for the rest of the Mystic series, explaining how the Mystic Isle came about, but I do borrow from Atlantis. Hope I ground that series well enough to be interesting!
I don’t always do map research. But this time, I knew I’d have a blind marquess wandering around, and I needed to know his surroundings to keep him grounded in some form of reality since he can’t get very far.
Ditto the psychic abilities. That’s what I’m trying to do with the various Magic books.
I hope you enjoy Mystic Isle. It’s actually the base for the rest of the Mystic series, explaining how the Mystic Isle came about, but I do borrow from Atlantis. Hope I ground that series well enough to be interesting!
I don’t always do map research. But this time, I knew I’d have a blind marquess wandering around, and I needed to know his surroundings to keep him grounded in some form of reality since he can’t get very far.
Ditto the psychic abilities. That’s what I’m trying to do with the various Magic books.
I hope you enjoy Mystic Isle. It’s actually the base for the rest of the Mystic series, explaining how the Mystic Isle came about, but I do borrow from Atlantis. Hope I ground that series well enough to be interesting!
I love series. I’ve often said it’s like one long book with many chapters. Mary Jo knows how much I appreciate her books and for me it’s consistency in setting and characters and as I re-read my series again and again, I find that critical. But there’s an intertwining between setting and characters as Kiera said, first setting then characters. If I believe the world then I like to see the characters interact with that world in a way consistent with that world. I love Anne McCaffrey’s worlds for the solidness of them and the belief that you could actually visit and feel at home.
I love historicals, and Sci-fi, and Fantasy, but I like each to be consistent in their worlds. But by the same token, I love a historical with magic elements too like Mary Jo’s Guardian series and JAK’s Arcane books. Each rule is firm but they cross over beautifully.
Good memories and good proofreaders are gifts from the authors to the readers! We as readers, appreciate them so inconsistencies don’t jolt us out of the world we’re happily visiting. 🙂
Now off to dive into “Irresistible Forces” my newly acquired Guardian Anthology! 😀
I love series. I’ve often said it’s like one long book with many chapters. Mary Jo knows how much I appreciate her books and for me it’s consistency in setting and characters and as I re-read my series again and again, I find that critical. But there’s an intertwining between setting and characters as Kiera said, first setting then characters. If I believe the world then I like to see the characters interact with that world in a way consistent with that world. I love Anne McCaffrey’s worlds for the solidness of them and the belief that you could actually visit and feel at home.
I love historicals, and Sci-fi, and Fantasy, but I like each to be consistent in their worlds. But by the same token, I love a historical with magic elements too like Mary Jo’s Guardian series and JAK’s Arcane books. Each rule is firm but they cross over beautifully.
Good memories and good proofreaders are gifts from the authors to the readers! We as readers, appreciate them so inconsistencies don’t jolt us out of the world we’re happily visiting. 🙂
Now off to dive into “Irresistible Forces” my newly acquired Guardian Anthology! 😀
I love series. I’ve often said it’s like one long book with many chapters. Mary Jo knows how much I appreciate her books and for me it’s consistency in setting and characters and as I re-read my series again and again, I find that critical. But there’s an intertwining between setting and characters as Kiera said, first setting then characters. If I believe the world then I like to see the characters interact with that world in a way consistent with that world. I love Anne McCaffrey’s worlds for the solidness of them and the belief that you could actually visit and feel at home.
I love historicals, and Sci-fi, and Fantasy, but I like each to be consistent in their worlds. But by the same token, I love a historical with magic elements too like Mary Jo’s Guardian series and JAK’s Arcane books. Each rule is firm but they cross over beautifully.
Good memories and good proofreaders are gifts from the authors to the readers! We as readers, appreciate them so inconsistencies don’t jolt us out of the world we’re happily visiting. 🙂
Now off to dive into “Irresistible Forces” my newly acquired Guardian Anthology! 😀
I love series. I’ve often said it’s like one long book with many chapters. Mary Jo knows how much I appreciate her books and for me it’s consistency in setting and characters and as I re-read my series again and again, I find that critical. But there’s an intertwining between setting and characters as Kiera said, first setting then characters. If I believe the world then I like to see the characters interact with that world in a way consistent with that world. I love Anne McCaffrey’s worlds for the solidness of them and the belief that you could actually visit and feel at home.
I love historicals, and Sci-fi, and Fantasy, but I like each to be consistent in their worlds. But by the same token, I love a historical with magic elements too like Mary Jo’s Guardian series and JAK’s Arcane books. Each rule is firm but they cross over beautifully.
Good memories and good proofreaders are gifts from the authors to the readers! We as readers, appreciate them so inconsistencies don’t jolt us out of the world we’re happily visiting. 🙂
Now off to dive into “Irresistible Forces” my newly acquired Guardian Anthology! 😀
I love series. I’ve often said it’s like one long book with many chapters. Mary Jo knows how much I appreciate her books and for me it’s consistency in setting and characters and as I re-read my series again and again, I find that critical. But there’s an intertwining between setting and characters as Kiera said, first setting then characters. If I believe the world then I like to see the characters interact with that world in a way consistent with that world. I love Anne McCaffrey’s worlds for the solidness of them and the belief that you could actually visit and feel at home.
I love historicals, and Sci-fi, and Fantasy, but I like each to be consistent in their worlds. But by the same token, I love a historical with magic elements too like Mary Jo’s Guardian series and JAK’s Arcane books. Each rule is firm but they cross over beautifully.
Good memories and good proofreaders are gifts from the authors to the readers! We as readers, appreciate them so inconsistencies don’t jolt us out of the world we’re happily visiting. 🙂
Now off to dive into “Irresistible Forces” my newly acquired Guardian Anthology! 😀
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
I agree that setting is important. I’m a sucker for books that have maps in the front so that you can follow the h/h journey. But character is the most important to me. I am fascinated by different cultures and how they interact, often with hilarious or dangerous results because of misunderstandings. So if the cultures or people have special abilities they still have to fit into a cultural background that is consistent with itself. I love to read a series because I come to know the characters as real people and see how they develop. Of course any romance reader wants a happy ending.
I agree that setting is important. I’m a sucker for books that have maps in the front so that you can follow the h/h journey. But character is the most important to me. I am fascinated by different cultures and how they interact, often with hilarious or dangerous results because of misunderstandings. So if the cultures or people have special abilities they still have to fit into a cultural background that is consistent with itself. I love to read a series because I come to know the characters as real people and see how they develop. Of course any romance reader wants a happy ending.
I agree that setting is important. I’m a sucker for books that have maps in the front so that you can follow the h/h journey. But character is the most important to me. I am fascinated by different cultures and how they interact, often with hilarious or dangerous results because of misunderstandings. So if the cultures or people have special abilities they still have to fit into a cultural background that is consistent with itself. I love to read a series because I come to know the characters as real people and see how they develop. Of course any romance reader wants a happy ending.
I agree that setting is important. I’m a sucker for books that have maps in the front so that you can follow the h/h journey. But character is the most important to me. I am fascinated by different cultures and how they interact, often with hilarious or dangerous results because of misunderstandings. So if the cultures or people have special abilities they still have to fit into a cultural background that is consistent with itself. I love to read a series because I come to know the characters as real people and see how they develop. Of course any romance reader wants a happy ending.
I agree that setting is important. I’m a sucker for books that have maps in the front so that you can follow the h/h journey. But character is the most important to me. I am fascinated by different cultures and how they interact, often with hilarious or dangerous results because of misunderstandings. So if the cultures or people have special abilities they still have to fit into a cultural background that is consistent with itself. I love to read a series because I come to know the characters as real people and see how they develop. Of course any romance reader wants a happy ending.
Hi Patricia,
FYI, I’ve tried several times to enter for free books on your website. Have even written to you in the contact me section a couple of time. But have had no response, sorry to say. The problem I am having is that no confirmation is coming through, even though I have applied to receive the freebies. I am writing this here as a last resort.
My apologies to all for the unorthodox intrusive interruption.
Sincerely, Kantu
Hi Patricia,
FYI, I’ve tried several times to enter for free books on your website. Have even written to you in the contact me section a couple of time. But have had no response, sorry to say. The problem I am having is that no confirmation is coming through, even though I have applied to receive the freebies. I am writing this here as a last resort.
My apologies to all for the unorthodox intrusive interruption.
Sincerely, Kantu
Hi Patricia,
FYI, I’ve tried several times to enter for free books on your website. Have even written to you in the contact me section a couple of time. But have had no response, sorry to say. The problem I am having is that no confirmation is coming through, even though I have applied to receive the freebies. I am writing this here as a last resort.
My apologies to all for the unorthodox intrusive interruption.
Sincerely, Kantu
Hi Patricia,
FYI, I’ve tried several times to enter for free books on your website. Have even written to you in the contact me section a couple of time. But have had no response, sorry to say. The problem I am having is that no confirmation is coming through, even though I have applied to receive the freebies. I am writing this here as a last resort.
My apologies to all for the unorthodox intrusive interruption.
Sincerely, Kantu
Hi Patricia,
FYI, I’ve tried several times to enter for free books on your website. Have even written to you in the contact me section a couple of time. But have had no response, sorry to say. The problem I am having is that no confirmation is coming through, even though I have applied to receive the freebies. I am writing this here as a last resort.
My apologies to all for the unorthodox intrusive interruption.
Sincerely, Kantu
Oh yeah, that’s a good point! Culture makes such a wonderful conflict, too, and consistency is really tough.
Oh yeah, that’s a good point! Culture makes such a wonderful conflict, too, and consistency is really tough.
Oh yeah, that’s a good point! Culture makes such a wonderful conflict, too, and consistency is really tough.
Oh yeah, that’s a good point! Culture makes such a wonderful conflict, too, and consistency is really tough.
Oh yeah, that’s a good point! Culture makes such a wonderful conflict, too, and consistency is really tough.
No apologies necessary. I see the email coming through the contact site and some people are having problems with the response going to their spam folders. But I’ll need your email address to determine what’s happening. Can you direct message me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPatriciaRice/ ? If your message isn’t coming through on my contact form, we have some serious communication failure happening and I don’t know how to work around it. I’m so sorry for the problem!
No apologies necessary. I see the email coming through the contact site and some people are having problems with the response going to their spam folders. But I’ll need your email address to determine what’s happening. Can you direct message me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPatriciaRice/ ? If your message isn’t coming through on my contact form, we have some serious communication failure happening and I don’t know how to work around it. I’m so sorry for the problem!
No apologies necessary. I see the email coming through the contact site and some people are having problems with the response going to their spam folders. But I’ll need your email address to determine what’s happening. Can you direct message me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPatriciaRice/ ? If your message isn’t coming through on my contact form, we have some serious communication failure happening and I don’t know how to work around it. I’m so sorry for the problem!
No apologies necessary. I see the email coming through the contact site and some people are having problems with the response going to their spam folders. But I’ll need your email address to determine what’s happening. Can you direct message me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPatriciaRice/ ? If your message isn’t coming through on my contact form, we have some serious communication failure happening and I don’t know how to work around it. I’m so sorry for the problem!
No apologies necessary. I see the email coming through the contact site and some people are having problems with the response going to their spam folders. But I’ll need your email address to determine what’s happening. Can you direct message me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPatriciaRice/ ? If your message isn’t coming through on my contact form, we have some serious communication failure happening and I don’t know how to work around it. I’m so sorry for the problem!
In answer to the first 4… All of them
I have several series I am currently reading.
Glynnis Campbell’s Warrior Maids of Rivenloch
Monica McCarty’s Highland Guard
I am always on the lookout for Stephanie Laurens, Karen Hawkins, Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Putney, Johanna Lindsey and you. 🙂
In answer to the first 4… All of them
I have several series I am currently reading.
Glynnis Campbell’s Warrior Maids of Rivenloch
Monica McCarty’s Highland Guard
I am always on the lookout for Stephanie Laurens, Karen Hawkins, Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Putney, Johanna Lindsey and you. 🙂
In answer to the first 4… All of them
I have several series I am currently reading.
Glynnis Campbell’s Warrior Maids of Rivenloch
Monica McCarty’s Highland Guard
I am always on the lookout for Stephanie Laurens, Karen Hawkins, Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Putney, Johanna Lindsey and you. 🙂
In answer to the first 4… All of them
I have several series I am currently reading.
Glynnis Campbell’s Warrior Maids of Rivenloch
Monica McCarty’s Highland Guard
I am always on the lookout for Stephanie Laurens, Karen Hawkins, Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Putney, Johanna Lindsey and you. 🙂
In answer to the first 4… All of them
I have several series I am currently reading.
Glynnis Campbell’s Warrior Maids of Rivenloch
Monica McCarty’s Highland Guard
I am always on the lookout for Stephanie Laurens, Karen Hawkins, Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Putney, Johanna Lindsey and you. 🙂
thank you, you have just gone onto the favorite reader list of a bunch of authors!
thank you, you have just gone onto the favorite reader list of a bunch of authors!
thank you, you have just gone onto the favorite reader list of a bunch of authors!
thank you, you have just gone onto the favorite reader list of a bunch of authors!
thank you, you have just gone onto the favorite reader list of a bunch of authors!