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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 6335838" data-attributes="member: 15800">Like I said, I wanted to sneak Daine and Jode into The Fading Dream, but it just didn't fit the actual story... likewise with Lei. The Son of Khyber was an opportunity to resolve some issues while remaining on track with the actual Thorn story. Which wasn't my intention. A key thing to bear in mind is that with tie-in/licensing series, you're juggling both the author's intent and the desires of the license holder. When I wrote The Dreaming Dark, it was my assumption that the characters would carry on in a second series; as I said, the story intentionally leaves questions unanswered because those would have formed the framework of the next trilogy. It was only after the series was complete that WotC decided not to pursue future stories with those characters, which left me feeling like an enormous jerk. It's a similar situation. The original plan I worked out with WotC was that Thorn would be a five-book series, and I planned her character arc with that in mind. While I was writing Book Three, they decided to end the series there. I did the best I could to give it a solid ending, but it was rushed and there were things I simply couldn't resolve because the answers to the questions didn't lie on Khorvaire, let alone in the scope of Thorn's final mission.I'm not trying to pass the buck here. Shifts in editorial direction are bound to happen in this sort of collaboration, and it is a danger of working with any sort of licensed property; at the end of the day, the author doesn't have complete control over the situation and needs to be ready for that. As a new writer, I didn't take that into account, and I made mistakes. It certainly wasn't an attempt to get you to buy more books; while I'd like to pursue both storylines, I don't know if WotC has any plans to produce Eberron fiction of any sort in the future. it was simply a combination of my own inexperience as a writer combined with the corporate complexities of writing tie-in fiction.</blockquote>

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