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Wish I'd Known Then . . . For Writers

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How to Write a Good Mystery Series

The trope is the thing, and if you can write a series with four or five, however many books about blank, then you know, your readers are going to buy in. I do know of one author that she's writing a locked room series. She's traditionally published in every, every mystery is a locked room mystery. But yeah, I think if you can figure out some trope or some maybe some universal fantasy, like Theodore Taylor talks about that will pull people in every single time. It's really smart.

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