Hi Guys, I just need some advice on my Fantasy series that I would like to publish one day and I didn't realize at the time but although they are both fantasy they are a different sub-genres. One is high fantasy and the second book is more Urban fantasy. I'm new to Fantasy writing so may be mixing genres up too much, I may not have even chosen the right genre. So I was hoping for a little guidance?
My first book is a stand alone book that takes place in another world with very typical fantasy elements and a good vs evil concept (think LOTR). In this world the characters aren't fighting to save the world because it's all ready doomed. The excessive use of magic over thousands of years has brought on like an apocalypse. My characters have a different goal — to simply survive.
There is also a land in-between worlds that is used as like a passage from one world to the next. A bit like 'no man's land' (I don't have a name so i's called that for now). Just an empty area that connects all magical worlds. And you can find anything there, all types of people from different lands move through, including the dead. My characters have heard word that those whose lands have been destroyed have settled in this place so their goal is to get there, which of course they do. They settle in this land and build homes ect. In the journey through the portal something goes wrong for one of my female characters; she and her new born daughter (Sarah) are separated from the rest of the group and end up in our world and since our world only has very low magical abilities it's not strong enough to open another portal and they are trapped. The others have no idea what happened to them or where they disappeared to.
My second book picks up 25 years later and focuses on Sarah who has grown up as an ordinary person in our world, but when her mother is killed by a strange beast it pushes her to start uncovering the truth about her own identity and where she should really be. Most of this book takes place in our land that has a very low form of magic until she discovers 'no man's land'.
Would this be okay? People may pick up my first book to read high fantasy and get disappointed if the follow up book is not. Am I worrying about nothing?
My first book is a stand alone book that takes place in another world with very typical fantasy elements and a good vs evil concept (think LOTR). In this world the characters aren't fighting to save the world because it's all ready doomed. The excessive use of magic over thousands of years has brought on like an apocalypse. My characters have a different goal — to simply survive.
There is also a land in-between worlds that is used as like a passage from one world to the next. A bit like 'no man's land' (I don't have a name so i's called that for now). Just an empty area that connects all magical worlds. And you can find anything there, all types of people from different lands move through, including the dead. My characters have heard word that those whose lands have been destroyed have settled in this place so their goal is to get there, which of course they do. They settle in this land and build homes ect. In the journey through the portal something goes wrong for one of my female characters; she and her new born daughter (Sarah) are separated from the rest of the group and end up in our world and since our world only has very low magical abilities it's not strong enough to open another portal and they are trapped. The others have no idea what happened to them or where they disappeared to.
My second book picks up 25 years later and focuses on Sarah who has grown up as an ordinary person in our world, but when her mother is killed by a strange beast it pushes her to start uncovering the truth about her own identity and where she should really be. Most of this book takes place in our land that has a very low form of magic until she discovers 'no man's land'.
Would this be okay? People may pick up my first book to read high fantasy and get disappointed if the follow up book is not. Am I worrying about nothing?