If you’re not a comic book reader, but this sounds familiar, it’s probably because over the past decade, Marvel has brought this method of epic storytelling to movies as well. Most comic book series inhabit the same universe under the umbrella of whoever publishes them (Marvel, D.C., etc.), allowing for crossovers and massive comic book events like The Infinity Gauntlet and Secret Wars. I’ve been a comic book guy most of my life, and I started my creative career as a comic book artist/writer who shifted to screenwriting and then to novel writing. It was at this time that I adopted a new (to novels) theory of long-term storytelling: Worlds, not series.

Mostly because I get bored writing about the same characters over and over, and if I’m bored, you’re bored. That’s why there are twenty-five Jack Reacher novels and nine Fast and Furious movies.īut there’s a new kid on the block, and I’m not talking about Donnie Wahlberg.Ī few years years ago, after writing several series, including the five-book Nemesis Saga, the five-book Last Hunter saga, and the Jack Sigler thrillers, which are composed of ten novels and eleven novellas, I publicly declared that I was done writing series. We want to know that what we’re spending money on is exactly what we’re looking for. When walking into a bookstore, or browsing online, familiarity sells.

Some authors spend their entire careers writing about the same character, or team of characters, getting into and out of one predicament or another.

Jeremy robinson the last hunter