It often feels to me like books don’t really exist until someone else has read them, has met the characters I’ve sketched out on the page, has lived in the world I’ve painstakingly built.
There are always gaps for readers to fill, things to interpret, different things that different people like or dislike. Stories are a collaboration between authors and readers. And that means the trilogy isn’t really over. Already it’s started to feel hazy and indistinct, a thing slipping into the background.įor readers, however, the final part of the journey is just beginning. It’s a frozen frame in a life that has kept hurtling forward. For me, this trilogy is already in the past. At the same time I’m cultivating the new seeds of other stories, I’m halfway through drafting another, and seeing yet another hit bookstores. Writing and publishing is a pipeline, and we do not move through it on a linear path. I’ve said before that as writers, we always seem to be living simultaneously in the past and in the future.
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