Writing a Series With Dan Parsons and Melissa Addey: Beginners Self-Publishing Podcast
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In today\'s Beginners Self-Publishing Podcast: writing a series. Oscar Wilde, Emily Bront\\xeb, and Silvia Plath only wrote one book. History tells us it\\u2019s possible to \\u201cmake it\\u201d with just one title, but is that still true today?
Generally, no. It can happen, but most modern authors need a series for a range of reasons.
Find more author advice, tips, and tools at our self-publishing advice center,\\xa0 http://selfpublishingadvice.org. And, if you haven\\u2019t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at allianceindependentauthors.org.
Now, go write and publish!
About the Hosts
Dan Parsons writes the\\xa0Creative Business\\xa0series for authors, bestselling fantasy and horror novels (under Daniel Parsons), and a weekly blog for\\xa0The Self-Publishing Formula. In the past, he has worked for three trad publishers, managed two bookstores and listened to an unhealthy number of podcasts. Now he\'s ALLi\'s product marketing manager.
Melissa Addey has a PhD in creative writing and writes historical fiction set in first-century Rome, eleventh-century Morocco and eighteenth-century China. She runs writing workshops covering both craft and entrepreneurship, most frequently for the British Library. She\'s also ALLi\'s campaigns manager, a role in which she loves observing and supporting the vast diversity of self-published authors. Visit her at her website and pick up a free novella.