I must admit that I am guilty of this myself... but this is only so because I didn't do the research. I had no idea that nearly 80%(<- my guess no scientific data to back that number up) of all books are apart of a series.

When I started joining groups one of the first discussions I stumbled upon was "I hate Series!" or something like that. Ever since then, most of the books I have read have been apart of some series. And the worst part about most of these are the cliffhangers!!! They just stop dead in the middle of the plot! My first novel can be read as a stand alone although it will leave you wondering about the sociopath at the end... but if you don't want to read the sequel it's not entirely necessary because that plot carried through and ended. The sequel is an entirely new story but just catches up with some of the previous characters.

I am considering not to do any more sequels or prequels or any type of book that requires consecutive reading, because it's highly annoying especially when the sequel won't be out for months after you read the first one! (I'm also guilty of this but I didn't take into consideration how much I would despise sequels until I read so many cliffhanging book 1's of series so-and-so) My sequel isn't due out til Christmas! I'm probably going to have to speed that up tho, but I wanted to give some time to get some traction so that there would be a buzz going about book two.

I can't stand it! Honestly for alot of these series that I have read you can put all three books into one and have an extraordinary novel instead of three small novellas. I understand that it's a sales tactic... I'm not naive or stupid, but it's annoying and its grinding my gears right now.

I'm getting to the point where I'm checking books pages on amazon just to be sure I don't have to go out and buy the rest of the series because I received apart of it on here for FREE!! Another diabolical deed by us authors...WHY ARE YOU GIVING AWAY BOOK 2 OR BOOK3 in your series and expect us readers to have already read the first one and if not go out and buy it so we can do an honest review? Some authors are up front but many I have found don't say anything until you either buy the book or you finish it and you're left like what the fuck?! You're really just gonna end it with Mark & Jane falling off the cliff dangling in midair? (<-not an actual plot but that's how these stories make me feel)


But I digress... sometimes its necessary to have more than one book to a plot. But for me and my future work, I think most will just be spin off novels where the characters are linked but the plots aren't dependent on one reading the other books to understand what's going on in the current one. Is anyone else tired of the series novels or is it just me?