There’s a meme going around Facebook that said: “Happiness is finishing a great book, and finding out it’s part of a series.” I think that’s true. Everyone love to read series. Revisiting familiar characters is like spending time with old friends.
In A Captive Audience: Writing a Series, we will explore the benefits of writing a series. We’ll look at the importance of the Series Bible, the Central Conflict, the fictional world in which your series will be set, and the importance of establishing the central characters early.
We’ll also learn how to make each story unique, while keeping it part of the series, how to weave reminders of previous books into the current story, and how to integrate theme into each of your stories.
About Cynthia Owens:
I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17thCentury “King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of  Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.
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My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII.
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A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three.
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I’m the author of 15 full-length novels and three novellas. A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero. I have two adult children.
