![]() ![]() Lynn Flewelling, author of the "Nightrunner" series ( Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness, and Traitor's Moon) disagrees. ![]() Some readers (and writers) complain that publishing conglomerates are the cause of this "to be continued" approach to fantasy writing. Others are standalone series, in which the major conflicts are resolved in each book (so that the book can be read independently of the others)but in which other threads, such as character issues and subplots, carry the reader from one novel to the next. Some are "X-ologies" stories that are continued from one volume to the next, leaving major plot issues unresolved until the final book. ![]() Even the trilogy has become old-fashioned today's multi-part epics come like beads on a very long string. It hardly seems possible these days to pick up a single fantasy novel. Negotiating ContractsSetting Fees/Getting Paid HELPFUL LINKS | EDITOR'S CORNER (Ramblings on the Writing Life) HOME | ABOUT US | CONTACT US | SITE MAP | MASTER ARTICLE INDEX | ADVERTISE WITH US! Writing the World of the Series: An Interview with Lynn Flewelling ![]()
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