Title: Write Your Own Cake: Tips for Writing a Long Series
Series: Write Your Own Series #2
Previous book in this series: Write Your Own Cake: A Worldbuilding Essay
Author: Jennifer Estep
Genre: Adult, nonfiction, writing
Publication date: January 14th, 2025
Published by: Jennifer Estep
Source: eARC for review from author
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Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Estep continues her Write Your Own Cake series with an essay about creating and authoring a long book series. Estep is the author of more than 50 fantasy and science-fiction books, including the long-running Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series.
Writing a book is hard. But writing book after book with the same characters and settings? Well, that is even harder.
Whether you are penning epic fantasy adventures, pulse-pounding thrillers, or swoon-worthy romances, writing a book series comes with its own unique challenges. This essay offers some tips and tricks for setting up your initial worldbuilding and magic system in anticipation of writing multiple books in the same series. It also offers suggestions on characters, tropes, and more that can help keep an ongoing book series fresh and interesting for both authors and readers.
Note: Write Your Own Cake: Tips for Writing a Long Series is a 2,100-word essay about writing and worldbuilding.
This is Jennifer Estep’s second book in this Write Your Own Series, which is nonfiction and all about how to write books and series and all that good writing/author stuff. I mentioned in my review of that previous book that I will literally read anything this woman writes, even this. Lol. And here we are again! 😆
This had a lot of really helpful tips when it comes to writing series, especially long ones. And Jennifer is an expert in that, in my opinion, since her Elemental Assassin series is 19 books long! But it’s SO good! I know I have mentioned this many times before, but that series just kept getting better and better and I’ve always marveled at that. One thing she mentioned in this book that she does to keep the series fresh and interesting is incorporating story elements from other genres, which is something I’ve always loved about her writing! She mentioned Deadly Sting, which is book 8 in the Elemental Assassin series, and that is one of my favorite books of the entire series! It is very fast-paced because it takes place mostly all in one day, but it also includes this sort of heist/robbery and I’ve always thought that was a lot of fun!
But this had a lot of other really helpful writing and world-building tips that I feel writers would really appreciate. But more than that, for me as a reader (though I have dabbled in writing here and there), I enjoyed getting insight into how my favorite author writes my favorite series and how it's still so good after 19 books. Lol.
I miss Gin though. It might be time for a re-read 😏
But this had a lot of other really helpful writing and world-building tips that I feel writers would really appreciate. But more than that, for me as a reader (though I have dabbled in writing here and there), I enjoyed getting insight into how my favorite author writes my favorite series and how it's still so good after 19 books. Lol.
I miss Gin though. It might be time for a re-read 😏
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