He also writes stand alone books that do not include any of these characters but somehow create their own mystique.
Susan Isaacs writes stand-alone mysteries, often with suburban themes.
Then he dropped Bernie for more than a decade, writing stand-alone thrillers and young adult novels (under the name P. B. Kerr) before he finally returned with the fourth book of the series, "The One From the Other," in 2006.
Kasdan and Kinberg were later confirmed as creative consultants on those films, in addition to writing stand-alone films.
Hundreds of his more than 1,000 songs became standards, but they were not written to stand alone.
Each play was written to stand alone, but, Mr. Henderson said, seeing them together, audiences could experience a cohesive journey and appreciate Wilson's accomplishment.
Each piece was written to stand alone, and in them there wasn't the room to develop the bigger arguments that I knew the book needed – ideas about cultural identity, translation, censorship and how stories can shape and change us.
Her haughty and vain characterization has been praised as a "well-written stand-alone".
Ms. Martin, who wrote more than 60 of the books in the original "Baby-Sitters Club" series, has written several stand-alone novels and started another series for young girls called "Main Street" (also published by Scholastic) since "The Baby-Sitters Club" ended.
The Times' Kenneth Turan writes, "Pixar stands alone, and 'Inside Out' shows you why.
Mr. Max notes that pieces of "Infinite Jest" date back to 1986, when they may have been written as stand-alone stories, "beginning with the playful, comic voice of his Amherst years, passing through his infatuation with postmodernism at Arizona," and ending with his backing away from ironic detachment in the wake of a stay at the McLean Hospital psychiatric institute and a halfway house.
