Another First?

I’ve been asked a few times if I’m going to write another book in the First universe and I mentioned this before in other posts and the interview I did with Literary Titan. The quick answer if you want to stop reading and get back to normal life: I don’t know. Right now I’m focused on adding to The Drop with more books in the series, and believe it or not, that takes creative energy I don’t get to use on other things. Does that mean I never think about it? Of course I think about it, usually at those random times when I should be thinking about something else. I like the characters in First and First Step, a natural consequence of spending so much time with them, and I suspect they have more stories in them. The problem with writing another book in the First world is that I have to be sure it’s a story worth telling. As an aside, I wish more Hollywood writers had that philosophy. That little dig now behind us, I’m not going to write a book just to write a book. I want the storyline to have meaning and to make the reader feel they’re glad they’re reading it. In First, Lewis was the first person to leave our solar system and return. In First Step, Eve was the first person to set foot on an extrasolar planet. After those two signature events, what’s the next first? I don’t know right now. Maybe in time I will and maybe it’ll be worth writing a book about.