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Or, as with the already mentioned In Death series, each book works as a stand-alone. The trick with this type of series is that the characters need to grow and change. I will lose interest if the main characters don't evolve as a series continues.
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I have to disagree that each book in the In Death series works as a standalone. There are character arcs and referrals to things that happened previously. In a series, if there is any character development or even a single sentence that refers to something from a previous book, then it's not standalone. And if the characters evolve, the books are not standalone. You can have a book in the series where the none of the characters evolve and nothing in the past is mentioned. But still, how do you write the characters if they've evolved from previous books? You have to write them as they are now (unless the book is one that takes place in the past).
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As a side note, the In Death series was originally set to only be a trilogy.
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That I did not know. If it was going to be a trilogy, the third book would have to be very much different.