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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I just want to add I don't want to have to buy the sequel to get an ending.
To me: that seems like nothing more than a money hungry author.
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^ This.
If an author leaves me hanging--that's it. There's no more money from me for another book. Oh, sure, I might buy the book, the 2nd one (or whatever), but you can bet it will be USED. No money for the author, none for the publisher. I cannot tell you how grasping and conniving that seems to me. And, no, you needn't point out LOTR or any others where it was done--most of those, like LOTR, are in a class by themselves, in some form or fashion.
(I'm still pissed off at Sci-Fantasy author Melanie Rawn, some few decades down the road, about her Ruins of Ambrai series, which she simply left with a massive hang, after two huge, epic-length novels. Y'know, if you can't finish the book, and don't have a SOLID outline of the entire story, beginning to end, spare us all the aggro, and don't bloody publish the ones BEFORE you gave up.)
My $.02, and worth less than that, obviously.
Hitch