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Originally Posted by Sirtel
It's even worse with self-pubs. There are many, many indies who start what seems to be a huge and ambitious series, the first book is published... and that's it. Nothing more. Yes, life happened, or the author lost interest, or the book didn't sell, but why not say it openly then? I've even written to a couple of authors and asked what their plans are re the sequels. They didn't answer me. Leaving the readers hanging like that is what I don't get. If you can't/don't want to write anymore, say it. People will understand.
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Some writers have no conscious control over the stories they are writing. If nothing comes up out of their subconscious minds, they have no story to write. The process is unpredictable, and cannot be planned out over the long term. Stories come, stories go. The ones that go may go indefinitely, or come back again at some point in the future. In such cases, the authors are left hanging as much as their readers. What can they say other than "My muse has abandoned me"?