![]() Ilona Andrews is a husband and wife team who began publishing this series in 2007. To be noticed, there needs to be something different. This is particularly so in the case of supernatural novels where many of the tropes have already been explored. It is easy for a debut novelist to throw everything at the first book and wonder where to go next. However, the danger is that with the intensity of the action in the first novel, the difficulty lies in sustaining the impact. It the author has projected this in the story arc across series, there is not a problem. The later novels in the series need to increase the jeopardy by more than minor increments. ![]() ![]() Thus, the first novel in a series needs to put the protagonists into great peril, ramping up the tension and perhaps allowing them to survive by the skin of their teeth. ![]() In a more and more competitive market, writers have to do more to make themselves noticed, not only by the potential publishers but by the readers as well. ![]()
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