Okay, I love every word you’ve written and I snap up everything you publish as soon as it finds its way into the American Midwest.. But I have one overriding complaint — your habit of moving to another novel or series of novels before you’ve closed out an ongoing story. For instance, I probably can assume that my favorite Saxon swordsman will somehow get home eventually and whack the stuffing out of his ne’er-do-well kinsman. But it’s very likely I won’t live long enough to read about it. Similarly, I drool at the prospect of reading how General Faulconer and Captain Blythe get it in the end (or perhaps elsewhere anatomically) but I suspect that my own story may end before does theirs. A suggestion, if you don’t mind — announce in advance how many installments you plan to write to finish a “chronicle” of novels. That way, if you tell me there will ultimately be 25 books in The Starbuck Chronicles, I will know I’ll never see the end and I can avoid starting the series altogether. Alternately, you could write and sell dearly just the closing chapters in these and other instances, bringing everything to an end and making sure we get to watch as Nate marries Julia and Faulconer gets tied to the muzzle of a cannon. My thanks and best wishes.

Paul Siemer