Readers love book series like \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d and the Jack Reacher thrillers because of the connection to the characters and their worlds. But writing them is another matter.<\/p>\n
Holly Bebernitz, the author of \u201cThe Magnolia Arms Chronicles,\u201d a six-book series, will explore the process of writing a series at the next meeting of the Ponte Vedra Writers, at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library.<\/p>\n
Bebernitz tells us that a rock and a spelling list awakened a lifelong yearning to write, eventually leading to her series. She\u2019ll share her successes, lessons learned, ways to tap into readers\u2019 preferences and advice in her presentation \u201cWriting a Series: If a Little Bit\u2019s Good, a Lot\u2019s Better.\u201d<\/p>\n
After 30 years of teaching speech, English and history on the secondary and college levels, Bebernitz retired from classroom instruction to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998.<\/p>\n
When \u201cTrevorode the Defender,\u201d which became \u201cPart I of The Magnolia Arms Chronicles,\u201d was published in March 2013, the indie author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete. Five books followed:\u00a0\u201cRoad to Briarwood\u201d\u00a0(2015),\u00a0\u201cTea at Kimball Pines\u201d\u00a0(2017), and\u00a0\u201cThe Moores, the Merriers\u201d\u00a0(2019), \u201cLawson Payne\u201d (2022), and \u201cAylesbury Dreams\u201d (2024). Part VII, \u201cDear Mrs. Pontefract,\u201d is currently underway.<\/p>\n
A drawing for a complete set of \u201cThe Magnolia Arms Chronicles\u201d will be held at the meeting, which is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Readers love book series like \u201cHarry Potter,\u201d \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d and the Jack Reacher thrillers because of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-319016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}