It is a strange thing, publishing. On one hand, you have to make money. On the other, you have to satisfy a fickle group known as “readers”. Not surprisingly, these two goals are not always harmonious. Then there are the authors, caught in the middle. That’s got to be a rough position. There is a trend, in genre fiction, toward series, connected novels, and trilogies that stretch into four, five, or more books. Readers love the familiarity of continuing characters, watching them evolve and develop throughout the course of multiple books. Of course, there are series that go on far