Stand-alone novels and novellas
Why not do something a bit different tonight? The stand-alone novels. *grins* I have a number of these that are, at this point in time anyway, the only book with the characters in the 'verse created for that book. One of them, in fact, is a collection of short stories that I had hoped to publish in magazines back in the day when things like that could still happen. My late father loved one of those stories so much he wanted more stories with those characters. The most ironic part of that particular story is that the idea was originally used as a fan fiction piece. Trust me, there's no similarity between the fan fiction version and my published version. I think it played out much, much better in the published version because I was able to go even more insane with it. There's both good and bad writing stand-alone novels and novellas. The good is that it lets you play with ideas, characters, situations, and other things you might not get to use in a series. It's fun an...