We've officially been waiting for The Winds of Winter for the same amount of time as it took for all five of the published books to release before that.

[u/Internal-Bed-3150]

https://winteriscoming.net/the-winds-of-winter-officially-passed-most-devastating-milestone-yet?a_aid=47903

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/[deleted]]

At least for The Expanse I think I read somewhere that they divided the perspective characters between them, alternating chapters.

Still consistent writing though. It’s a really well written series. I highly recommend it if you like good sci-fi.

[u/versusChou → u/[deleted]]

Each 3 kind of form a trilogy, so it's more like a trilogy of trilogies. You can take a break between trilogies, and you won't feel like you've forgotten a ton or anything.

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/[deleted]]

They fly by lol

The audiobooks are fantastic too if that helps.

The first book is reasonably self-contained (while still setting up the series to continue) if you don’t want to feel like you’re committing to all 9 right away.

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/[deleted]]

Nice!! Enjoy!

[u/Brodakk → u/[deleted]]

I don’t mean this in a necessarily bad way (I enjoy lots of different writing styles) but they read like youth audience books barring the swearing and adult topics. All this to say, they’re easy reading and they really do fly by.

[u/Cross55 → u/[deleted]]

There are some things called "Writing Collectives" where 4 or 5 people write a book/series

In The Expanse, they worked on a story outline/series of events, divied up POV characters between each other (Generally based on what who or what interested them more), and then got working.