At 10:23 PM 6/9/2002 -0700, Joe Lynch wrote: >One of the very best things about the Vlad novels is how the publishing >timeline is not linear to the story timeline. For example, Jhereg comes out, >then Yendi comes out, covering a time period before Jhereg, then Teckla >comes out, covering the time after Jhereg. And so on. I'm not aware of any >other sci fi or fantasy series doing this and it's one of the main >attractions of the stories. Darkover. >How much of this did you plan? It isn't a matter of planning; it's a matter of telling the next story I felt like telling. Plan? Me? Heh. I didn't even know I was writing a series until I was partway into TECKLA. >Do you expect to do this for the full cycle, assuming you get to writing all >of the Vlad books? We need an FAQ. If I don't either die or get tired of writing them, there will be 19 in all: One for each House, a first one called TALTOS, and a last one called THE LAST CONTRACT.