A few of you know I'm working on a 50-state mystery series and I've had to put the series on hold because I can't afford my illustrator. So here is my dilemma - I really want to get the series completed

but not being able to afford 50 books at the price I was being charged, I'm thinking of revamping the series. I need input on a direction to take it - condensing the series from 50 books to 5 or 10 or whatever

number in the series will work. I don't want anything to be too obvious as to which state is being described, I want to keep the fun and educational aspect and probably the game aspect of the already started

books. I have had 3 in the series published by a publisher; they came out of contract and then I republished the first one and went ahead while the second and third were still in contract published

the fourth, fifth and sixth in the series. If I continue with individual books for individual states I end up with a total of 50 books. If anyone has read what has already been published or if I've worked

with you via Skype/google talk or you have my private email and have some ideas on a good way to revamp the series keeping the integrity of the original idea intact, please contact me and share your

thoughts and ideas. If you haven't read any of the already published books and would like a PDF copy of the book and the teacher's study guide to accompany the book, please email me at [email protected]

with the subject line of STATE SERIES so I know what it is in reference to.

What if you did the books by region or a couple per region. Just a thought. I teach fourth grade and these would be fun for our standards that are states and regions.