Stephen Finnemore
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
Your Recluse series jumps around in time from two book sets to the next, in your other novels you follow the three book series method. Compared to many other authors, you are the only one that seems to jump in time completely, where others just use the "flash back" or legend tales. Do you find this to be unique in your writing or is it how the stories have developed in your exploration on how they want to be told?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
I don't explicitly read other authors and compare how they handle a series, but from what I've read in F&SF over more than fifty years, I would say that my way of writing a series is certainly not a method adopted or followed by many others. As I recall, I don't believe Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover novels were written in strictly chronological order. Nor are Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books, at least as I remember them. But, offhand, those are the only ones that I know of that "skip around."
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Antonio Carlos
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
I follow your blog and always liked the way you handle ARC books: you mention the ones that you loved, point out the issues if they are only good enough, and make no mentions to the ones that could be called a waste of paper. I recently fell into a trap due to a cover blurb by some author, in a very poorly edited and composed work. How do you handle the 'pressure' to promote "bad" books from friends or publishers?
Caroline Medley
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
Mr Modesitt, I have enjoyed reading your books since the early 1990s when I met one of your relatives on my husband's submarine. I have all your series in my home library and have reread them many times. Please keep writing! The Recluce series is my favorite but I also enjoy the Imager series. Why did you decide to begin this new series?
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