This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 37th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

So as you probably gathered from my previous podcasts, I am a total leave me alone let me write kind of introvert.

But this week was decidedly dig down deep and put on your big girl extrovert hat.

I had something going on literally every day doing interviews on several podcasts,

including DIY MFA and the writer files on Rainmaker FM,

as well as recording the presentation five most common

fiction mistakes for the author indie fringe online conference which coincides

with the London Book Fair this week. I also had a getting really

really close to launch chat with programmer Bob Miller who has been hard at work on

the fabulous outlining your novel workbook computer program we're planning to release in

late May or early June. I'm technically trying to keep things a little more

low-key and laid back this year year with interviews, gas-post, etc. But just not this week, I guess.

At any rate, I am looking forward to getting back to full-on focus on writing this week.

In other news I'm excited to announce that tomorrow March 14th 2017 I'll be hosting audio book expert Derek Deppker, Annie Free webinar on producing and selling audio books.

So if you're interested, you can find details at the top of the Helping Writers Become Authors

dot com homepage.

And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast entitled Five Rules for How to Write a Sequel. Just when you think you've figured out how to write a book, you realize you have to learn a whole new set of rules for how to write a sequel.

You'd think writing the second book in a series couldn't be that much different from writing the first one.

They both have a beginning, middle, and end, three acts, all the usual plot points, rising and falling action, etc, etc.

Even better, you've already done the hardest part of the foundational work, right?

You've already successfully made it through one whole book with these

characters, which means you already know what they like for breakfast, how they survive their childhood nemesis, and what their go-to move for bad-guicking

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