Abandoned universes…the publishing scene…

I've gotten several queries today about more books in this and that universe, and for Foreigner, the answer is good.

One thing that has been so, so difficult is the number of times I have had to create a universe for some reason, then find that the publisher has been gobbled up by some oil company or the like, and they have now replaced my editor with someone who comes in with a different set of objectives…a view of how they want their line to work, and by definition, that's got to be...