Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
I think books should have secrets, like people do.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Next, in importance to books are their titles.
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.