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30.2 Sheila’s Task: One Author – Two Series
For this task you will read 2 books from 2 different series written by the SAME author under the same name.

Book 1: Read any book in any series by an author who has written at least 2 different series.

Book 2: Read the FIRST book in a different series written by the same author of your first book.

For example: Many of us enjoy the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, but did you know that she has also written 3 other series? So you could read Smokin' Seventeen in the Stephanie Plum series for book 1 AND the first book in one of her other series for book 2.

A series will be defined as at least 3 published books with the same series name. The author must have the same name for both books. Pseudonyms are not allowed. Both books must be identified as part of two different series by Goodreads (Series Name, #).

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Will Sweet Valley books be able to work for this task? For example, there are Sweet Valley High, Sweet Valley University, Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley etc

Rachel Vincent has two different series.
Rachel Caine has quite a few series.
Nora Roberts has a lot of series.
Ann Aguirre has two series.
Nalini Singh has a few series.

So does the series have to have 3 already published books, or can it be a planned trilogy, with just 2 books out currently?

Anne Perry has two series that are good mysteries. Thomas and Charlotte Pitt is started with The Cater Street Hangman and William Monk is started with The Face of a Stranger

I will be happily reading book one in two different David Baldacci series!

I love this task!

Philip Pullman has 2 different series
Laurie Halse Anderson has 2 different series

Jasper Fforde has three different series.

(But I now realize I'm not sure they count, since not all the books in the series have been published yet. Never mind!)

I don't think you really mean this, do you?

"Both books must be identified as part of the same series by Goodreads (Series Name, #)."

From the rest of the task description it sounds like the two books must NOT be in the same series.

How about and ?

Some of my favorites with more than one series - Elizabeth Peters, J A Jance, Dana Stabenow, Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey

sweet i've been hoping to fit the new Chicagoland Vamps in

I can do it as bk 6 for the first one, and then she has a YA adult series that I haven't tried yet - whee

my problem was that so many of the series i'm reading right now are relatively new, so they don't have the requistate 3 books published - even if they are scheduled

Just to clarify, there have to be three books already published in the series for it to count, right? So I could not use Chimera, since there are only two books so far?

AWESOME!!! I'm a huge series person so this rocks:)

Want to double check...

Book 1-Flowers On Main
Book 2-The Backup Plan

Also Agatha Christie works as well because she has her Hercule Poirot series and her Miss Marple series :)

Kathryn CA wrote: "Will Sweet Valley books be able to work for this task? For example, there are Sweet Valley High, Sweet Valley University, Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley etc"

Yes they will work

Aneeqah wrote: "So does the series have to have 3 already published books, or can it be a planned trilogy, with just 2 books out currently?"

Yes a series is defined for this task as 3 published books

Kimifly wrote: "I love this task!"

Thanks, I was going for SIMPLE this season

Rosemary wrote: "I don't think you really mean this, do you?

"Both books must be identified as part of the same series by Goodreads (Series Name, #)."

From the rest of the task description it sounds like the two..."

Thank you Rosemary. You are SO right. I sent a message to Kristi to correct it

Thanks for pointing that out!

Anomander wrote: "How about and ?"

There only appear to be 2 books in the Werewolves series so Frostbite would not work. Sorry

Kate wrote: "Just to clarify, there have to be three books already published in the series for it to count, right? So I could not use Chimera, since there are only two books so far?"

Right

Christine US wrote: "AWESOME!!! I'm a huge series person so this rocks:)"

Thanks Christine. I am too so this is a great task for me as well.

★Meghan★ wrote: "Want to double check...

Book 1-Flowers On Main
Book 2-The Backup Plan"

Those will work great. I've never read any of her books. What are they like Meghan?

Thanks Sheila! I love this task. I also love series, so it should be a lot of fun!

Sheila wrote: "Thank you Rosemary. You are SO right. I sent a message to Kristi to correct it

Thanks for pointing that out! "

Whoops! That's what I get for doing these so late at night ;-). All fixed now. Thanks, Rosemary!

Sheila wrote: "★Meghan★ wrote: "Want to double check...

Book 1-Flowers On Main
Book 2-The Backup Plan"

Those will work great. I've never read any of her books. What are they like ..."

I just read my first one by her not too long ago...it was a nice and cutesy romance without any smut. Some of my favorites.

Sheila wrote: "Aneeqah wrote: "So does the series have to have 3 already published books, or can it be a planned trilogy, with just 2 books out currently?"

Yes a series is defined for this task as 3 published books"

Thank you,I think I understand now!

Does anybody have any YA author suggestions that would work for this task?

Chloe Neill has a YA series and a UF series - I'm using that

Tamora Pierce has lots of series out you could use

I'm going to get saucy and do...

Guilty Pleasures - Anita Blake Series
A Kiss of Shadows - Meredith Genry Series
Both by Laurell K. Hamilton

Aneeqah wrote: "Sheila wrote: "Aneeqah wrote: "So does the series have to have 3 already published books, or can it be a planned trilogy, with just 2 books out currently?"

Yes a series is defined for this task as..."

Here are some I found on my list that I have...

Suzanne Collins
L.J. Smith
Rick Riordan
Richelle Mead
P.C. Cast
Alyson Noel
Phillip Pullman
Jenna Black
Kelley Armstrong
Rachel Caine
Melissa De La Cruz
James Patterson
Sara Shepard (possible if the last in The Lying Games comes out in February)
Nancy Holder
Amanda Hocking

I didn't know Suzanne Collins had two series out. I thought the Hunger Games series was her only one. I'll have to check out the other one.

It's called Gregor the Overlander and is a middle grade series. She actually wrote it before THG.

I also found these authors who have different series:
Dean Koontz
Debbie Macomber
Amanda Quick
Orson Scott Card
P.C. Cast

If you like sci-fi/fantasy, Jim Butcher has two good series going. I also believe that Scott Westerfeld would work (I think the Leviathan series has three books out, and the Uglies series has four).

Richelle Mead should work as well.

Nancy Kress works, too, if I understand the rules right (Beggars in Spain and Probability Moon).

I think I am going to use Sharon Shinn (Angelica and Mystic and Rider).

Kate wrote: "If you like sci-fi/fantasy, Jim Butcher has two good series going. I also believe that Scott Westerfeld would work (I think the Leviathan series has three books out, and the Uglies series has four)."

Westerfeld also has the Midnighters series, which has 3 published books.

★Meghan★ wrote: "Aneeqah wrote: "Sheila wrote: "Aneeqah wrote: "So does the series have to have 3 already published books, or can it be a planned trilogy, with just 2 books out currently?"

Yes a series is define..."

Thanks! I have a lot of these on my tbr. =)

I am using Jeffrey Deaver for this task.

Great choice Bea. I love both the Lincoln Rhyme series AND the Kathryn Dance series

I actually think it is easier to find authors that have different series by going to Fantastic Fiction http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk// and looking up authors and books there. Nothing against goodreads I just feel that FF is better suited for this kind of quest.

Another good site that works well for this task is fictfact.com. It is geared directly toward keeping track on series.

That is a good way, Sheila.

I found that searching my TBR with # in the search field produced all the series books on my list. I still had to check each author, but the "Series by ...author.." feature gave me a visual of series titles so I could see if there were 3+ properly listed on GR

Thanks Meghan! I didn't know about that one. I am now the newest registered member of fictfact.com. username is SheilaJ

Thanks Dlmrose. I knew there had to be a way to do that here.

If you go to an authors page on GR it will show all their series just under their top 10 most popular books. Sometimes its off though. Stephen King shows having several series but all but one are just the same book listed twice to show a series. He only has the Dark Tower series that is actually a series.