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Dear Jim
wardenferry419:
I think "Elvis has left the building," jonas. Darn. I was hoping for an encore.
airyie:
Sometimes life happens dude.
Plans getting put on hold.
Dealing with all the things life throws at you becomes like dodgeball.
Things that use to come easily are now more difficult.
Sometimes breaking even is the best case scenario - after all, you don't want to take 10 steps backwards.
I wouldn't say the fanbase is dead, just inactive. They're out doing other things. Some check back once a year. Others once every couple months. And when a new book is out, I'm sure the majority of them will find their way back to the fanbase as active members.
Lord knows the LV426 fandom held out for years!
KurtinStGeorge:
This isn't aimed at any one person. In the immortal words of HAL 9000:
"I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over." ;D
WereElephant:
--- Quote from: airyie on April 20, 2018, 02:41:29 AM ---
I wouldn't say the fanbase is dead, just inactive. They're out doing other things. Some check back once a year. Others once every couple months. And when a new book is out, I'm sure the majority of them will find their way back to the fanbase as active members.
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In their hall at Arctis Tor,
Dead Butcherites lie dreaming.
SerScot:
flying peach,
--- Quote from: flying peach on April 19, 2018, 04:38:49 PM ---I've seen it posted before that Jim Butcher doesn't owe us anything. I disagree. When standalone books are written absolutely nothing is owed. Implicit in every trilogy is the belief that there will be a third book. If the third book doesn't get written there is no point in reading the first two books. It wasted the readers time defrauded the reader out of money and time and left the reader hanging with no resolution.
The early books were standalone novels. Once he left the case mysteries set up (really since Changes and his books that I preferred) it became more like a trilogy or long series.
Imagine if you get to the last book of the Harry Potter series and it doesn't get written just because the author decided that she didn't want to, had plenty of money, and didn't owe the fans anything. Well, it's pretty clear that in such a circumstance the writer is a jerk.
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Here's my difficulty with your position "owed" implies a legal obligation. I just don't see that. We were given a book that is part of a series. We paid for the book and read the book with full knowledge of the fact that is a part of a series. There is no guarantee the series will ever be complete. There is no obligation by the author to complete the series. That might make the writer who chooses to hang up his pen and become a... blacksmith a bit of a jerk but there is nothing we can do about that other than kvetch that it was not fair that we didn't get the "whole story".
My problem is that when people claim they are "owed" something by a writer they really don't know what they are talking about. When you buy a book, you get the book that you bought, and nothing more. There is no legally binding promise to finish the full story.
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