Even if AQATWA was discontinued, none of us could complain. You've given us some fantastic novels; novels which, despite being "fan fiction", have a wonderful style and character of their own. In truth, I've enjoyed reading the series just as much as I did the Harry Potter series that inspired it, and it'd be a shame if it ended now, but you should focus on what is most important in your life, even if that isn't writing more Alexandra Quick fiction, either now or in the future.
Take a break - as long as you need.
... Then come back, "file off the numbers", and turn the Alexandra Quick novels into the stand alone series that it deserves to be. Publish it, make piles and piles of money. Angrily, if not violently, overreact to book interviewers who dare suggest that your work was originally Harry Potter fan fiction. Become a notoriously unpredictable celebrity writer and be photographed falling out of clubs with reality TV stars. Announce to the press that you're done with "magic twinkly twaddle" and write a pretentious work of "high literature" that will be slated by literary critics and fail to make a dime. Go into seclusion for ten years, then return to the limelight with a final Alexandra Quick novel that will be hailed as something of a redemptive return to form, if not quite equal to the spark and flair of the earliest books in the series. Live off the proceeds of the sale of the movie rights for the rest of your days. Preferably on a private boat off the coast of the south of France.
Take a break - as long as you need.
... Then come back, "file off the numbers", and turn the Alexandra Quick novels into the stand alone series that it deserves to be. Publish it, make piles and piles of money. Angrily, if not violently, overreact to book interviewers who dare suggest that your work was originally Harry Potter fan fiction. Become a notoriously unpredictable celebrity writer and be photographed falling out of clubs with reality TV stars. Announce to the press that you're done with "magic twinkly twaddle" and write a pretentious work of "high literature" that will be slated by literary critics and fail to make a dime. Go into seclusion for ten years, then return to the limelight with a final Alexandra Quick novel that will be hailed as something of a redemptive return to form, if not quite equal to the spark and flair of the earliest books in the series. Live off the proceeds of the sale of the movie rights for the rest of your days. Preferably on a private boat off the coast of the south of France.
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