Book Two, Check.

About my dystopian trilogy, which up to this point I have been calling my planned dystopian trilogy… yesterday, I finished book two, draft one. Now I turn to editing, a process painstaking but not daunting.

In and of itself, completing book two is a personal first. I have never attempted or had any interest in writing a sequel to anything, though it was suggested to me by my agent (hey, Peter) that I consider it, because YA series sell well.

So, I thought about it, and my conclusion up to now has been nah. I like one-offs! I like ending on the unresolved! Writing to the market feel obligatory, rather than exciting! Too complicated! Too tethered to a fixed, existing framework! I had my reasons. But this story feels different, and even I am eager to see how it resolves.

With book two out, the tide shifts, and I feel confident I will complete not merely what I set out to do, but I’ll also tell a story I want to tell, with characters I want to keep hanging out and messing with.

I am writing a trilogy; in a few months, give or take, I will have written one.