Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
Developing a series is a next step for me.
The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
A series is filled with compromises.
Series work is just grueling.
But I want to do good work, after this series.
I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.
There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.