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

[deb-krol.livejournal.com]

PLEASE, please, write a follow up to Scout's Progress. We already know that Aelliana gets whacked by the Enemies of Korval [the Department of the Interior??], so it won't be such a shock to us. [although there WAS the time that a friend of mine read Moreta Dragonlady of Pern before reading the rest of the Pern series and therefore did not realize that Moreta is doomed...but don't let that stop you from writing SP sequel!!!]