How acceptable are book "reboots"?
Okay, I have a question for everyone I've been mulling this over for a while and I'm very strongly considering taking my Earthfleet Saga and completely rebooting it. It'd keep all the important stuff intact, and would be more or less a minor or intermediate rewrite that brings it up to a higher standard. Since I've improved my craft as a writer by leaps and bounds over the past five years, I want to go back to my older works and bring them up to the standards and quality levels that I produce now.
As such I'm wondering, would readers accept a rebooted book series? Or is it pretty much a case of, "Once it's out in the wild, what it is is what it is" and I'm not really allowed to change it per say, save for grammatical and spelling errors that are occasionally found and need fixing?
If reboots are openly accepted, then I'm all in on this. If not, then what do I do about the books? I'd really like to improve on them using what I've learned in the time since first publishing them.
|