VAL PENNY

I write two series of books and chose to write my books in series in order to develop my characters. However, I have also written stories with standalone characters and, indeed, all my books can be read in any order as standalone novels. There are certainly advatages and disadvantages to writing a series or standalones books. I want to explore those here. Advantages: For me the big draw for writing a series was the opportunity for character development because writing a serie

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The First Cut is free for the first time this Christmas weekend. I hope you enjoy it and to give you a little taster by way of an extract...