At 04:54 AM 6/5/2002 +0000, Christopher Gunning wrote: >Mr Brust, Make it Steve, okay? >I was wondering how far you plan to take the Taltos series? I have been >eating up your books since I found a beaten up copy of Jhereg (I really >liked the cover) and have been wondering if you plan on going through the >entire cycle? Do you envision a specific climax to the series or letting >the books fall where they may? I have bits and pieces of ideas for what happens to Vlad. I know what eventually becomes of him, and how he gets there. >It seems to me that you have been writing the Taltos books one novel at a >time, allowing the books to dictate their own conclsuions and, at this >stage of the game, can you see yourself writing a final chapter to the series? Here are some of the things that'll happen, in order of probability: 1) I die before finishing them 2) I get tired of them, and have enough integrity to stop writing them. 3) I get tired of them but continue writing them anyway, so they suck. 4) I don't get tired of them, and end up with nineteen Vlad books: 1 for each House, a first one called TALTOS, and a last one called THE LAST CONTRACT. At the moment, I'm under contract for two more, and I'm still enjoying the hell out of the little sonofabitch. >Oh, and by the way, you were at a small convention in Columbus, >Mississippi way back in 1995, no? I sure was. Had a blast, too.