Sounds like this one reads faster. Both said they couldn't put it down and both are familiar with the other books. Might hear something from Derek today, for a third opinion.
I had to split this work into two books because of a constraint I gave myself. The romance readers like their books between 20,000 and 40,000 words. Even though this is action/adventure/sci-fi, it has a heavy romance theme and the people I know who read a lot of that like my stories too.
So, when I was approaching 35,000 words I noticed there was no way this story would be finished before 40,000. I modified the outline and continued the story until I reached the limit, then re-worked the end of "Part One" and the beginning of "Part Two."
Part one does have the right elements, in my opinion, to be a complete story, just not the whole story of a relationship. When "Part Two" is complete, the reader will have the whole story of the relationship between John and Suki.
The term "With A Twist" is in the title as both a description and a warning. This set of two books is a departure from the origonal series, more like a bizarro paralell story. The same core characters are present, but some are in different lines of work than they were in the original Suki series. I tried to keep them all with the same personalities, reacting the same way to things as they would have reacted in the main series, but they are in much different situations. Also, I set the beginning of the story about one year earlier than Suki I. The only clues I left for that are the ages of John and Suki.
As soon as I read the fan fiction that Suki and Sarah wrote, I embraced it as part of the main series and I continue using their gadgetry in the Suki With A Twist books. Update: ISBN is 1451551827 and EAN-13 is 9781451551822 have just been assigned to this book.
Will start working on Suki VI, or whatever I name the next book of the main Suki series, after I get these two finished and available in paperback.
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