What is wrong with New Yorker fiction?

[Claudine]

Dakota's series is a good example of how many different characters keep a storyline going. She's planned what? 12 books in total? Each one keeps to the same cast of characters but focuses on a different main protagonist/good guy with some great descriptive writing inbetween.

There are very few series that have such a successful formula and keep one's interest. Frank Herbert's original Dune books are another but his son's plundering of his father's epic originality has made quite a mockery of the basic storyline.

The Pern books are another great example and one I'm hoping my son or daughter will soon start reading and enjoy just as much as I did at their age. I have yet to read anything her son has contributed though.

The book business is much like the music business I think. In music, sometimes it isn't about what the fans want but about what the execs want selling. Acts like some of those formulaic 5 member "bands" the industry is famous for churning out make a mockery of the genuine talent out there. Not to even talk about all the Idols type shows.

[Dakota]

Claudine wrote: "Dakota's series is a good example of how many different characters keep a storyline going. She's planned what? 12 books in total? Each one keeps to the same cast of characters but focuses on a different main protagonist/good guy with some great descriptive writing inbetween.

There are very few series that have such a successful formula and keep one's interest."

Thank you, Claudine. Different characters in my series have different problems, and thus drive the events in different directions. The writer just keeps a light hand on the steering wheel. I can see how it would be much more difficult if the main character in my series was the same all the time.

There were originally 13 books expected. But currently the tenth one to be written is so long, and still unfinished, that we're thinking of splitting it into several complete volumes.

[J.A.]

Dakota wrote: "Claudine wrote: "Dakota's series is a good example of how many different characters keep a storyline going. She's planned what? 12 books in total? Each one keeps to the same cast of characters but ..."

Dakota's now preparing notes for her kids to finish out her series.

[Dave]

J.A. wrote: "Dakota's now preparing notes for her kids to finish out her series. "
LOL

[Claudine]

Dave wrote: "J.A. wrote: "Dakota's now preparing notes for her kids to finish out her series. "
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Excellent! So out of the original 12 books we should now expect at the very least 11tybillion more?

[Dakota]

Claudine wrote: "J.A. wrote: "Dakota's now preparing notes for her kids to finish out her series. "

"Excellent! So out of the original 12 books we should now expect at the very least 11tybillion more?"

Hardly. Giselle has seen how much hard work writing is. She's now saying that it would be a waste of having so many hardworking, frugal ancestors, all leaving her trust funds, for her not to become an idle socialite.

My series is open-ended. 13 books is what I agreed to deliver to Gemma, because I had books or first chapters for 13 books. But I think 13 in the set is a baker's dozen, after which a new challenge would be in order. Anyway, we're a fair way from there. I've delivered nine, and a tenth one is almost finished.