Friends and Readers of Liad! Your Opinion Please!

[rolanni]

I found something on my computer today, tucked down in the directory marked "Short Stories," which is only, yanno, supposed to contain completed short stories. The title of the file was "DaavandAelliana." I thought to myself, "Self, I don't remember writing a Daav and Aelliana short story, much less a Daav and Aelliana short story with a lame title." So I opened it, to find that, in fact -- not a short story. It's about 1500 words (which is to say, Not Very Much) of what appears to be a follow-on book to Scout's Progress.

Now, I have always said that I was not going to write a follow-on to Scout's Progress, because I have a Thing about not writing books that End Badly. End Ambiguously? I'm there. Badly? Nope.

What this means in terms of Aelliana and Daav is that there is a lot of backstory that Steve and I know, which readers don't (nyah-nyah), some of which is going to play into the book-after-I-Dare-if-ever-&c.

The poll below is to help me clarify my thinking. If you have thoughts, insights, or comments, please put them in comments.

Thanks!

EDITED TO ADD: There are spoilers for Scout's Progress by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller in comments. You have been warned!


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Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I know how much decent used copies are going for. Even the recently OOP books like Plan B and I Dare start at over the original preice for "reading only" copies, Good+ ones are 4 times the price and more. The early ones are even more.

Yay, another Silverlock fan! I lent out my 'lending' copy before Christmas.

And yes, I want to read that book!

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

What, only ONE lending copy of Silverlock?

[(Anonymous)]

We buy them in bulk and hand them out.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

They have been hard to find in the UK, both of mine came to me 'used' and are the only ones I've seen here. I see that Amazon have it, though, so I'll be ordering some new copies.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

When we go to Uncle Hugos, we buy out their stock of Silverlock, and hand them out to people, never expecting to get them back.

The shortest lifespan of Silverlock in our hands was 3.5 minutes. I was checking out when a friend walked in behind me and said hi. She'd never read it--so I gave her one of the four copies I had just purchased.