Readers are upset because we killed too many people, didn’t kill enough people, killed the wrong people… Fans are upset because the series ended. Look at some of the reviews for STEEL’S EDGE, WILDFIRE or MAGIC TRIUMPHS. Everyone has preconceived notions about how the favorite series should end. No matter how good it is, some readers will shred it. So when we talk about final books in a series, we have to take into account the writer’s emotional state.Īs an author, you know that your final book in the series will be hated. There are many reasons why that was the final book, but my mental state was definitely one of them. To this day, when I have to reread passages from it, I get this gnawing sense of dread. I cried a lot during that point, and I’m not a crier. I was in a terrible place emotionally because one of the children had issues and writing a book about a healer was like torture. Any comments calling author lazy etc will be removed.
Please feel free to express your disappointment with any unfinished series, but let’s keep it to series only. I know the situation with Brandon Sanderson finishing off Wheel of Time was somewhat different in that Robert Jordan died – but would you ever consider allowing another author to finish off your work if you lost interest in something? Ruthįirst things first: no bashing of any authors in the comments. I’m most interested in what your views are on whether an author should allow someone else to finish a series if they lose interest in it. The most obvious example of this is George RR Martin and his Game of Thrones books – which I very much doubt he’ll ever finish since he’s obviously lost interest and wants to write Wild Cards books instead. However, fans often feel that they have somehow bought books on the basis of a misrepresentation by the author that they will get the “end of the story”. At the end of the day an artist’s work is their own and if they don’t want to write further books in a particular series they don’t have to (unless they are under contract to a publisher I guess). I’d be interested in your views on the concept of authors giving up on series without completing them.
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