What books have been in series in the past that suggest this approach will work? Well there was the "Dune" series by Frank Herbert, probably the most famous of all. The Ender series by Orson Scott Card was another famous one. And of course there was the lesser known Pattern Master series by Octavia E. Butler.
A series is usually a sequence of novels which carry the same world from book to book, or a character that is common to all the books, or a theme that is more complex than to be represented by common worlds or characters but nonetheless coveys a unity of vision for the reader.
The second of a series of books is the one that begins to warm the reader to the writer. And any additional books in the series just serve to make that relationship stronger. And that is precisely the relationship we seek to form between our writers and our readers.
This can even work for technical books, as in the case of our "C from A to Z" series which will issue in three parts. Part 1 will teach the basics of the C language, Part 2 will explore complex projects, and Part 3 will conclude with multi-threading and persistent daemons.
When writing a first book of your own, please consider the advantages of a series.
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