Books in a series

by Debbie Ellen
6th February 2014

Should there be a recap of events on the first chapter of the 2nd book?

I don't want it sounding too much like an information dump.

But do you assume that the reader would have read book 1 and knows what's going on?

Where's the balance?

Debbie x

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exactly !

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Sarah Dyne
06/02/2014

Yeah, I think maybe drip feed it in?

I hate being bombarded with information straight away in chapter 1.

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Debbie Ellen
06/02/2014

Hi Debbie

J K Rowling seemed to be pretty good at this in her HP series !

Personally as a a reader I like a bit of recap...woven in, but not too much as it gets boring

If you can slip it in with the new story it should work well

S

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