The author asks his readers for advice

[northwestpass]

Dear readers of my books, and friends,

Should I divide the book I'm working on in half, ( again!) such that the (mostly) complete first nine chapters may be released sooner? Then the rest would be published separately, perhaps three years from now. (Let's call this the short book optionOr

Comments

[alfrecht]

I'm inclined to suggest the "two books, getting part one out sooner" option. If you really stimulate people's interest with the first book, and then can follow it up in a relatively short amount of time (two years isn't that long), then that's really quite good. There have been cases where an author says "I'm deferring this question until my next book" so often that one gets frustrated...and said book has still not come out, and it's been about six years or so...and there's no sign of it doing so at this stage. Bleh!

So, that would be my suggestion.

[cuardai_eolais]

Totally agree with that.