Angela
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Kate Elliott:
I've just began to read Bk 1 of this series and was hoping my library have the other 2! I was sad to to be told they were not published --- could you not find another publisher for the remainder of this series? Baen books or whoever? - I really like bk 1 (I'm 83 years old and SF is my favourite reading matter)
Kate Elliott
Angela,
There's a longer answer posted somewhere but I'll sum it up as efficiently as I can. Black Wolves was published in 2015. Orbit Books canceled the series (i.e. books 2 and 3) in 2016, which means that even if I turned in completed books they wouldn't have put them on sale. However, they also retained rights, so I am not able to publish finished versions regardless. Book two was about half written when this all went down, and needless to say I had to suspend working on it in order to work on books that I could get paid for (since I make my living writing). My agency has recently been pursuing the possibility of trying to get the rights to the trilogy back, but it is a complex and very very very slow process, so there's nothing on the table right now. If I ever get the rights back, I hope/plan to finish and publish books 2 and 3 along with book 1. But again, while I hope that may happen, I can't guarantee that it will. I appreciate your patience, and I hope that I may have better news in the future. The situation is quite frustrating for me as I know the entire story and hate to have it sitting unwritten. All best wishes, and thank you SO MUCH for reading my work. Kate Elliott
There's a longer answer posted somewhere but I'll sum it up as efficiently as I can. Black Wolves was published in 2015. Orbit Books canceled the series (i.e. books 2 and 3) in 2016, which means that even if I turned in completed books they wouldn't have put them on sale. However, they also retained rights, so I am not able to publish finished versions regardless. Book two was about half written when this all went down, and needless to say I had to suspend working on it in order to work on books that I could get paid for (since I make my living writing). My agency has recently been pursuing the possibility of trying to get the rights to the trilogy back, but it is a complex and very very very slow process, so there's nothing on the table right now. If I ever get the rights back, I hope/plan to finish and publish books 2 and 3 along with book 1. But again, while I hope that may happen, I can't guarantee that it will. I appreciate your patience, and I hope that I may have better news in the future. The situation is quite frustrating for me as I know the entire story and hate to have it sitting unwritten. All best wishes, and thank you SO MUCH for reading my work. Kate Elliott
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Kate Elliott:
I don't have a question(?), I just wanted to say thank you for writing the Crown of Stars series. I picked it up by chance during 2020 and it pulled me out of a low point. <3 I am currently re reading (on book 2) and just couldn't be happier to be back in the world of Liath, Alain, Sanglant and 5th son ;).
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