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After I finished Blood, Book 6 of The Unfinished Song, I realized I’d hit thehalf-way point of the series. Not coincidentally, Ibeganobsessing about how to write solid “middles.�� First I looked at three problems that commonly sag or even sink a series in the middle books.

I wrote: “My goal is to make every book in the series shine. Each one is a critical piece of Dindi and Kavio’s story, none is filler. So I will be outlining the next six books exhaustively before I even begin the revisions...