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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Writing A Series: Heroines

Here’s Part II of what I affectionately call How a Pantser Writes A Series Proposal And Somehow Sells It Without Having Any Idea What She’s Doing.

You will quickly see that while putting together a proposal for the Mystery Men minsieries I had no idea who the heroines of books #3 and #4 would be. Oh, the proposal included potential heroines for each story, along with plots and backstories. Those potential heroines just didn’t end up being the actual heroines in either book. As yesterday’s post showed, neither did the plots.

The heroine in LOCKED AND LOADED (Book #3) is Maddie. In Book #4, THE BIG GUNS, the heroine is Sela. Maddie is a WitSec participant whose identity and whereabouts have been leaked by someone within WitSec and she’s now in danger. Sela is the assistant to the Recovery Project’s nemesis, Trevor.
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