Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.
I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.