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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Why is it that anything created today has to automatically be a series?
You often listen of something like "the new series X by newcomer author Y". WTF?! Why should I care that some new unproven author has come up with some lame new series? Can we even call one book alone as part of a series? If it doesn't make any profit, will any further books in the "series" ever be published?
People used to write stories back then. If the story was good enough and characters became popular with the audience, they could eventually come back in further stories. It is the very case of Sherlock Holmes. It's not like Conan Doyle got up one day and said "well, I should make up a new series about a consulting detective". He was even annoyed at the popularity of the short stories and tried to kill the character and left it in the fridge for several years! Imagine some author/publisher doing it these days...
rant off.
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I agree! Especially those authors who don't tie up any real story arcs by the end of that first book. WTF.