Hello everyone,
So I thought I was so close to publishing, but I can't stop editing. In that vein, I have been mulling over my ending.
So my story is a series of bad situations my main character escapes from with varying degrees of success. By the end, she reaches the goal she sets out to accomplish in the beginning, at great cost, but then...here is my problem. The book is book 1 of 2 and the way I have it now, she reaches her goal, thinks she safe, and then boom, bad thing happens and book promptly ends...to be concluded in book 2.
Is this cheesy/lame/over-done? Leaving my readers with a cliff-hanger at the end of book 1 and concluding the story in book 2 seems like it fits. However, if no cliff-hanger, how do I end this book without wrapping up the story line completely and thus eliminating book 2?
PS - I can't combine them into one as it would be a very long book.
PPS - I posted here instead of Sy-Fi as my book is more horror then sy-fi/fantasy
So I thought I was so close to publishing, but I can't stop editing. In that vein, I have been mulling over my ending.
So my story is a series of bad situations my main character escapes from with varying degrees of success. By the end, she reaches the goal she sets out to accomplish in the beginning, at great cost, but then...here is my problem. The book is book 1 of 2 and the way I have it now, she reaches her goal, thinks she safe, and then boom, bad thing happens and book promptly ends...to be concluded in book 2.
Is this cheesy/lame/over-done? Leaving my readers with a cliff-hanger at the end of book 1 and concluding the story in book 2 seems like it fits. However, if no cliff-hanger, how do I end this book without wrapping up the story line completely and thus eliminating book 2?
PS - I can't combine them into one as it would be a very long book.
PPS - I posted here instead of Sy-Fi as my book is more horror then sy-fi/fantasy