Howard Brazee wrote: > I'm curious: > > > Steve - how often and extensively do you re-read your books when you > are preparing for or writing a sequel? Do you take notes about > pieces that you figure are important to this book, or are you just > re-creating the environment you want to be in while writing the new > book? > > > ================================ > > Everybody - how often or extensively do you re-read these (or other > series), when preparing for an announced sequel? > > And "how extensively" might in this case include Vlad books only for > a Vlad book, Or for Sethra Lavod, the two previous books in that > series - or the 4 previous books - or all of the Dragaerian books, > except Brokedown Palace, or all Dragaerian books at all? > > Have you ever stopped in the middle of a book, and pulled out a > previous book to re-read a piece or all of it? > Regarding that last, I have several times read key parts of Brokedown Palace and The Phoenix Guards in tandem, and am considering doing the same with parts of Sethra Lavode and [one of the Vlad books]. -- J A Dusty Sayers 'When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.' --Lord Falkland