Why Does In Conquest Born get a sequel and not The Coldfire Trilogy?
I don’t like reading sequels in general, and so I don’t really enjoy writing them. For me, the excitement of starting a new novel is exploring a new world, and that’s as true when you’re writing it as when you are a reader. I read very few sequels for that reason, and I promised myself early in my career I’d never write one. A book that doesn’t excite me when I’m writing it surely won’t excite my readers very much! Another special joy of writing is stimulating a reader’s imagination. If I write a book that leaves your mind buzzing after the last page is turned, if you spend the next weeks obsessed with what might happen next, if your imagination comes up with all sorts of wonderful story ideas that take up where my novel left off, I’ve done my job. A sequel would only detract from that experience. Likewise there would be no mystery to a Coldfire prequel, merely a chance to spend more time with the characters, when you knew what was going to happen to them. I know many readers like that
