Series Potential: Beyond Book One

Sometimes a single book just isn't enough. Do you want to write a series, but aren't sure what kind, or how to approach the various craft and logistical challenges? Join Valerie Valdes to explore the scope of series potential, including how to structure multi-book character and plot arcs, playing with changing world states, keeping your notes organized, and more!

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Valerie Valdes’s work has been featured in Uncanny Magazine, Magic: the Gathering and numerous anthologies. Her debut novel Chilling Effect was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was also named one of Library Journal’s best SF/fantasy novels of 2019. Her space fantasy novel, Where Peace Is Lost, was named a 2024 Reading List Council honor title. Writing as Lia Amador, her first contemporary fantasy romance novel, Witch You Would, was published by Avon Books in September 2025.

Valerie is co-editor of the award-winning Escape Pod science fiction podcast, and currently works as a freelance writer and copy editor. She is a graduate of the University of Miami and the Viable Paradise workshop and has taught classes and given lectures for Viable Paradise, Writer’s Digest University, Clarion West and Georgia State University. She lives in Georgia with her husband and children.

Valerie is represented by Quressa Robinson at Folio Lit.