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Originally Posted by indes
Thanks for the thoughts everyone!
I've always been an avid reader and love writing. I've been musing about starting a thriller novel series for the last couple of years. I thought maybe I could get my feet wet with some children's books and see how much I actually enjoy it, before I set myself up for failure with a 300 page novel.
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I've published a number of pieces of writing professionally (but only non-fiction articles, never a book).
I'd caution that a children's book probably isn't a stepping stone to writing an adult novel. It's really quite a different thing.
If you want to write a thriller novel I would do the following.Write some adult short stories, and have them read by critical readers. Edit and improve them. Go to writers workshops. Put them out there (online, anthology, blog, whatever) and see how they are received.
In the process of all that you should end up having fans and contacts in the publishing world in your genre. Then write a novel.