182 - How to Succeed with a Super-long Series

Episode 182 - How to Succeed with a Super-long Series with Lisa Regan

April 18. 2023

This week on The Indy Author Podcast, I talk with Lisa Regan about HOW TO SUCCEED WITH A SUPER-LONG SERIES, including how to plan character development, building your team of characters, the plausibility pact with readers, the pros and cons of a fictional location, keeping readers engaged, and how to maintain your interest as a series author.

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Lisa Regan is the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series as well as several other crime fiction titles. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and a Master of Education degree from Bloomsburg University. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, Crime Writers Association, and Mystery Writers of America. And she lives outside Philadelphia with her husband, daughter and Boston Terrier named Mr. Phillip.

Lisa previously appeared on the podcast in Episode 016 - Drawing Back the Publishing Curtain with Lisa Regan

The protagonist of the series "has to be interesting to me. I have to be fascinated by her past or by the things that drive her, by the things that she's afraid of, by the way that she acts. And so it was fun to think about creating this character who would be endlessly interesting to me, because if you never get tired of this person and they become a person in your mind. you'll be able to write endlessly a about them." —Lisa Regan

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https://www.instagram.com/lisareganauthor/

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I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Lisa! Are you the author of a series and, if yes, do you have any best practices to share about keeping the readers’ interest and your own throughout? Are you a readers of series and, if yes, what makes a series engaging for you? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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