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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I know one thing that I would like more of from some of my favorite authors. A little bit more talk of where you are going with the book in the future. Perhaps a one sentence statement of what you are working on. My favorite authors almost never do that.
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There can be a lot of reasons for that. Trad authors may not have a continuing contract. They may not KNOW if the next book will be published or written. (I know authors who had the next book written and the publisher decided not to renew/extend the contract.) So making promises and talking about what you're working on is very risky.
Another reason: Sometimes we don't know! I pretty much plan my series as 3 book series--past that, it depends on inspiration and...sales. Some of my books have 3 books planned, but if the first doesn't sell at all well, I'm going to move to a different project.
Another reason: Sometimes we don't know. We honest to God put everything we have into the current work. We live it, breathe it, beat it to death. We edit it so many times, it's memorized. By the time we're done and someone reads the book in four hours and then asks, "So, what's next?" our eyes bug out, hair stands on end and we (barely) muffle a soul-screech that could break windows.
Then there's the whole, "life just got in my way." You can plan and plan and sometimes despite your best efforts, things change.