Stephen Finnemore
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
Your Recluse series jumps around in time from two book sets to the next, in your other novels you follow the three book series method. Compared to many other authors, you are the only one that seems to jump in time completely, where others just use the "flash back" or legend tales. Do you find this to be unique in your writing or is it how the stories have developed in your exploration on how they want to be told?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
I don't explicitly read other authors and compare how they handle a series, but from what I've read in F&SF over more than fifty years, I would say that my way of writing a series is certainly not a method adopted or followed by many others. As I recall, I don't believe Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover novels were written in strictly chronological order. Nor are Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books, at least as I remember them. But, offhand, those are the only ones that I know of that "skip around."
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Thomas Walsh
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
I read your work from the beginning of the Saga of Recluse but became frustrated with the seeming lack of direction that the series had after 3-4 books. I've always been interested in revisiting the series but my frustration with reading the early disorganization of related stories without an explanation makes me hesitant. What do you say to draw back in early readers of the Recluse series who abandoned it?
☯ Rikuson R. Rozan ☯
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
Have been trying to purchase The Magic of Recluse in Hardcover. But unfortunately they have been sold out for a very long time. Only ones selling it online are 2nd handed sellers for prices that are double, triple & sometimes more than quadruple to what the original price was. I wanted to know if there's any way or hope that you can contact Tor Publisher to look into doing Hardcover Reprints! Can you look into this?
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