Feb 12

Timing Isn’t (quite) Everything

Posted: under Contents, Craft, the writing life.
Tags: , , ,  February 12th, 2011

One of the difficulties of restarting a story last seen twenty years ago is that for readers who read the original books when they came out–even five or six years later–it feels as if there should be more time between Oath of Gold and Oath of Fealty than there is.   Intellectually, these readers may grasp that the second Oath picks up where the first one left off, but they’ve experienced years in between and they aren’t the same readers they were when they finished the first three books.

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