Wishing for a Comeback

[_ocelott_]

It happens over and over. You start a new series or discover a new author and discover with delight that books like these are the reason you read in the first place. You glom onto every word, and then one day you discover you've run out. That series has ended, sometimes without ending the story, or that author has stopped putting out new books

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[edgyauthor]

Man, I've had so many book series end prematurely, it's not even funny. I'm not even sure I can count how many times it has happened, it's been that often. Sigh. Good thing I'm used to being left hanging, since this happens all the time to my fave shows, too....

Even worse is how this has happened several times with my all-time favorite author. Lynne Ewing's Daughters of the Moon series is easily my fave of all her works, but both it and its spin-off, Sons of the Dark, stopped releasing new books for years. (SOTD because of low sales, I heard.) Thankfully, a new DOTM book was released finally which tied both series up. Then she had a new series released called Sisters of Isis...which was also cancelled due to low sales. *cries* That series started being re-released recently, so I'm crossing my fingers that the reprints do well enough to warrant new books for the series! But even if they don't, I'd be happy with anything new from her, period. She hasn't published anything new since 2008, which is just wrong. *wants*

[dsgood]

Sometimes a writer stops doing what I like, and turns to something else. Or decides "I've been insufficiently preachy about conservatism/spaceflight/feminism/___! I must make up for this."

And this can happen partway through a series.

[morgan_dhu]

I am very much with you on Resnick's Chronicles of Sirkara - still waiting and hoping on that one.

I have given up on ever reading the concluding volume of Melanie Rawn's Exiles series.

And Diane Duane has rekindled hope that I may some day be able to read the concluding volume of her Middle Kingdoms series (aka The Tale of the Five) - she has been talking on her blog about returning to it if there seems to be enough reader interest to make it worth her while.

[enchantedskies]

I usually forget which books I'm waiting on beyond a couple of series here or there. >.> I actually got annoyed with waiting on the new George R.R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire book (which actually came out this past year) but I decided that since it will take forever and a day for the next one I might as well wait to pick up the new book. >.<

Most of the time though, I try to find series that I can end after every book because I don't wanna have to wait for the next installment as I usually forget what happened in the previous one at least in the fine details. If I can take every book as it's own individual story it is easier on my mind in the long run.

Though, I definitely agree with you on Rowling. That has been my biggest complaint about her since HP finished was that I wanted to see something new (and hopefully different) from her.

[electricland]

I so sympathize. Some of my favourite authors write very slowly. :(

Rosemary Kirstein is very occupied with her day job (although she writes slowly at the best of times). I SO want another Steerswoman book. I have faith that it will come, but the wait is painful.

I'm also waiting oh so patiently for the last book in Kathleen Duey's Resurrection of Magic trilogy because I want to know how it all comes OUT!

One of my longest and yet most rewarded waits was when Sharon Lee and Steve Miller started publishing again TEN YEARS (give or take) after Carpe Diem, which ended on a cliffhanger. They're doing fine now.

Some authors, of course, inconsiderately die on you. (Sarah Caudwell, for example.) Nobody's done THAT lately, thank goodness.