Writing the Overarching Series

Reach for the stars!

The Overarching Series is the most complicated to read and write. In this specialized type of series, none of the installments can truly be standalones. They must be read as a set in sequence to make sense. Reader satisfaction is only partially achieved in each volume because just the story arcs tie up while the series arc only resolves in the final.

Speculative fiction is particularly well-suited to the Overarching Series structure because the genres under this umbrella ...