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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 4708435" data-attributes="member: 7883">True.  However...I think that there's a certain "social contract".  He wrote the first book, as the first in a series, announced to be, what....five books?  And now it'll be seven?  In any case, he wrote the first book, people loved it, and began purchasing more of the books, based on the fact that they enjoyed each book as they went along, and, because they know there are more coming, and they want to find out how the story ends.Then, he dramatically slows down, loses interest, gets writers block, who knows....?He doesn't owe anything more than what he's written, and what the consumers/readers have purchased.  However, many of them have continued purchasing the books, contingent upon the fact that they're part of a larger series, and that he's working on finishing the series.I ask you this......do you think his fan base would have been anywhere near as large after the first book if he said right at the beginning "well, this is going to be a great series, it's planned for five books, but you know, I think I've changed my mind and don't feel like finishing it, and I'll just leave you hanging about the ending."If he'd come out and said that at the beginning, I likely wouldn't have continued reading the series.  I'm sure many others wouldn't have either.That having been said, the man's got a life, and a right to do what he wants.  He's not beholden to anyone (aside from any contracts he may have signed with his publisher dictating X many books in the series, etc.).  Life's about more than work, as I've been reminded in the last several months, and maybe he's lost interest.  I don't know.I like to believe that people mean well, and mainly try their best, so I'll just hope that he's a guy who likely had a plan from book 1, added an extra piece into the middle, and has gotten lost trying to figure out how to tie the beginning to the end, but is legitimately trying.To tie it all into the discussion of fame, however......it's a nice problem to have, to have thousands of people waiting with baited breath for the next novel you write to be finished.  There are worse problems to have in life, despite the rudeness of some fans who feel inclined to be insensitive on internet message boards.Banshee</blockquote>

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