My awesome editor is doing the final copy/line edit

[Guest]

83k words, 42 chapters and a lot of blood and sweat went into this novel.

I got bored now that I don’t have it to work on for a while so I started a second story featuring the same protagonist.

Now in the 3rd chapter and I stopped.

I am not sure how much I can assume the reader knows about him.

So, I thought I would read the next novel in Baldacci's new Atlee Pine series to see how he handled it. I read the first one a while back.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[Gray]

Way to go! You're doing the right thing. Read the second book in a couple of series and see how the authors handled it.

[Randy]

Assume the reader knows nothing. But don't retell the previous story, build the character and environment as it pertains to the sequel.