I brought together characters from most of my previous books, plucking them out of their individual dimensions to face a threat against all dimensions. I first experimented with this in the final book of the Nemesis Saga: Project Legion. And as far as I know, it’s unheard of in the realm of original novels. It’s new for movies, but it’s clearly successful. This kind of full-world storytelling is normal for comic books. They started with solo characters ( Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America), and then they brought those characters together with others in The Avengers movies while, on the side, they introduced audiences to even more characters ( Spider-Man, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange,and Ant-Man) all of whom came together for the two-movie Infinity War/Endgame event. If you’re not a comic book reader, but this sounds familiar, it’s probably because over the past decade, Marvel has brought this method of epic storytelling to movies as well. Most comic book series inhabit the same universe under the umbrella of whoever publishes them (Marvel, D.C., etc.), allowing for crossovers and massive comic book events like The Infinity Gauntlet and Secret Wars. I’ve been a comic book guy most of my life, and I started my creative career as a comic book artist/writer who shifted to screenwriting and then to novel writing. It was at this time that I adopted a new (to novels) theory of long-term storytelling: Worlds, not series.
Mostly because I get bored writing about the same characters over and over, and if I’m bored, you’re bored.
That’s why there are twenty-five Jack Reacher novels and nine Fast and Furious movies.īut there’s a new kid on the block, and I’m not talking about Donnie Wahlberg.Ī few years years ago, after writing several series, including the five-book Nemesis Saga, the five-book Last Hunter saga, and the Jack Sigler thrillers, which are composed of ten novels and eleven novellas, I publicly declared that I was done writing series. We want to know that what we’re spending money on is exactly what we’re looking for.
When walking into a bookstore, or browsing online, familiarity sells. Some authors spend their entire careers writing about the same character, or team of characters, getting into and out of one predicament or another.
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