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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I get your point, I really do. But I have a strong objection to authors who create series and then don't continue them or take forever to finish them. No, the author is *not* my b1tch, but I feel in some way that there's an additional agreement in place when an author writes a series.
The author is asking us to take the chance that on the series, knowing that the storyline may not be well resolved in one book. So I'm asking them to actually resolve that storyline - and in a reasonable amount of time - eventually!
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I would say that "the author is not the reader's b1tch" is incomplete, and the whole statement should be the author is not the reader's b1tch, but neither is the reader is the author's b1tch.
An author can take as long as they want to write a particular book, or choose not to write that particular book. A reader can decide not to continue to buy any more books in a series or any more books from that author for whatever reason. As far as what a reader owes an author... Well, I'd say that the reader owes it to the author not to obtain the book illegally and to not harass or threaten the author because of their choices. So while a reader has the right to complain about the wait between books in a series or the actual contents of a book in public spaces, doing so in the author's space or to the author's face (unless invited to do so) is wrong.