Saga, Series, and Just Plain Long Books

There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the thing has gripped him.

– P.G. Wodehouse, writing in 1935

How little things change! I too am a victim of the Saga Habit. Fifteen Deverry books, four Nola O’Gradys — and I haven’t even finished the Nola series! Now SORCERER’S LUCK, which I meant to be a stand-alone, is insisting that it’s only the first volume of a “Runemaster trilogy”. Over the years, a numb...