{"id":41229,"date":"2014-02-27T07:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/the-agony-of-the-book-series.html"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T17:10:38","slug":"the-agony-of-the-book-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/the-agony-of-the-book-series.html","title":{"rendered":"The Agony of the Book Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
Book series are so ubiquitous that we almost assume that any new book coming out will be the first in a series, rather than a one-off. There are good reasons for that (and some bad ones), but sooner or later, even if (maybe especially if) you come to a series late in the game, you end up going through these stages when you finish one and realize the next is a year … or more … away …\ufeff<\/div>\n

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The 9 Agonizing Stages Of Waiting For The Next Book In A Series To Come Out<\/a>
\n Book series are a wonderful thing, but the wait time between installments can be agonizing. Some authors and publishers have wised up to how impatient we’ve collectively become, and have applied the binge-watching mentality to books by rolling titles… \n <\/p>\n

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Book series are so ubiquitous that we almost assume that any new book coming out will be the first in a series, rather than a one-off. There are good reasons for that (and some bad ones), but sooner or later, even if (maybe especially if) you come to a series late in the game, you … Continue reading “The Agony of the Book Series”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130214,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/a-series-of-fortunate-castings.html","url_meta":{"origin":41229,"position":0},"title":"A Series of Fortunate Castings","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Mar-16 1:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wait, there's going to be a Series of Unfortunate Events series? 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