I never intended Bitten to be the beginning of a series. It was conceived as a stand-alone book, with all the major plot questions resolved. After the book sold, the question of a sequel arose. My reaction was honestly ambivalent. Did I want to write another book with these characters? Definitely. Should I write another book with these characters? That I wasn’t so sure about.

I feared that writing a second Elena book would mean locking myself into an Elena series.  It wouldn't take long before I'd start losing steam, getting anxious to try something else. Let’s face it, there are only so many ‘sex in the woods’ scenes one person can write. If I did manage to sell a few more werewolf books, by that time my publishers might be reluctant to let me try something else.

I decided that the best solution lay somewhere in the middle. I’d write a sequel that I hoped could indeed launch a series, but not a series strictly about werewolves. I’d already created a world with werewolves. Why not write a book where Elena learns that werewolves aren’t the only supernatural beings around? That way, I could introduce another woman, of another supernatural ‘race’, who could take over narration of the third novel. Women of the Otherworld. That would be my series.

After that second novel, Stolen, I foisted narration duties on a witch for two books (Dime Store Magic & Industrial Magic), and a ghost for one (Haunted).  I've even found a way around the "Women of the Otherworld" title by writing online novellas from a male point of view (Savage, Ascension & Beginnings)  Now, with the sixth book, I'm returning to where I started, with another Elena novel, Broken.  After that, expect to see more of the same—new narrators taking a turn, and old ones returning for another go.