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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'd be happy to see more authors abandon series. I haven't read Jeremy Robinson in part because looking through his catalog, with his many series, was just more trouble than it was worth.
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My first experience with an abandoned series was Roland Green's Wandor series. That series was abandoned in the middle of things with book 4. I never bought another Roland Green book. There is the difference between a series where each book is more or less a stand alone (Bond and Hornblower, for example) and a series where the plot line is one continuous book (Wheel of Time).
When I told Jim Baen some years later why I refused to buy books written by Roland Green, he called me harsh. Me, I look at it from the stand point of if you aren't willing to see the series through, then learn how to write self contained books. I started this series when I was in high school and spent my lunch money to buy some of them. Would it really have been difficult to look at the numbers and figure out that you needed to wrap the series up early because it wasn't earning enough to continue? It's not like they dropped the series because only book 4 didn't do well and the rest did great. This is also the reason that many refuse to buy a book from a series until it's been completed.