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Google tossed up a late but nice reader-review of BLOOD FROM STONE, which had a line in it that really pleased me: "This is the last book in the retriever series and as much as I enjoy this world I think it was the right time to end it."
I felt the same -- I had put Wren through her paces, and she was resting quietly in my head, while other characters were speaking up. It's tempting, often, to say "okay, one more" (especially if someone is offering you money to do it!), but listening to your gut on things like this is important. Of course, had they offered me six figures... I'd like to think I would have negotiated something I could live with, artistically. But six figures (to the left of the decimal point) is a LOT of money.
Of course, as I type this, I am working on a book where Wren plays an important role.., but she's a player in the scene, not the spotlighted character. She says and does what she needs to, and then gets out of the way. I suspect she -- and Sergei, and Wren and PB and all the other players of the Cosa Nostradamus - will be doing that quite a bit, going forward. It's one of the joys of writing an extended community...
EtA: Bonus bit of #WiP from PSI#4:
“Oh dear,” she said, in a tone of voice that put every nerve I had on edge. There's “oh dear that’s too bad” and then there’s “oh dear, this is very bad” and hers was the latter.
For those of you, btw, who are confused or uncertain about where to start or how to read:( the publication/reading order of the Cosa Nostradamus books )
I felt the same -- I had put Wren through her paces, and she was resting quietly in my head, while other characters were speaking up. It's tempting, often, to say "okay, one more" (especially if someone is offering you money to do it!), but listening to your gut on things like this is important. Of course, had they offered me six figures... I'd like to think I would have negotiated something I could live with, artistically. But six figures (to the left of the decimal point) is a LOT of money.
Of course, as I type this, I am working on a book where Wren plays an important role.., but she's a player in the scene, not the spotlighted character. She says and does what she needs to, and then gets out of the way. I suspect she -- and Sergei, and Wren and PB and all the other players of the Cosa Nostradamus - will be doing that quite a bit, going forward. It's one of the joys of writing an extended community...
EtA: Bonus bit of #WiP from PSI#4:
“Oh dear,” she said, in a tone of voice that put every nerve I had on edge. There's “oh dear that’s too bad” and then there’s “oh dear, this is very bad” and hers was the latter.
For those of you, btw, who are confused or uncertain about where to start or how to read:( the publication/reading order of the Cosa Nostradamus books )
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