What Is It About Second Books?
Currently Writing: Merlin quartet book 2 Currently Reading: Dune by Frank Herbert The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (Reread) The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket (audio) Daughter of Light by Morgan Busse (Kindle) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Vol. 5 by Hayao Miyazaki Tad Williams once wrote about the difficulties of writing second books (and sometimes third books, in his case) because they are essentially the middle of the story of a trilogy (or quartet). As such, these middle books must begin and end i...