Voboy
Sometime Wordwright
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It is hard enough to follow your own plot lines when they go long. Don't expect a reader to do it.
Oh, I don't. I mostly do it for my own amusement.
But again, I consistently get about one reader a month interested in my interrelationships. When you've written as much as I have, in as much time, that's more readers than I'd ever have expected, lol.
To be clear, there is NEVER a need for people to read prior works in order to fully understand the later stuff. I do signpost them sometimes, in notes at the beginnings of my stories. All my stories are totally independent, unless I note otherwise. My pattern is Irvine Welsh, whose books largely take place in a sort of "alternate Edinburgh" populated by familiar names that come and go. I love that, as a reader.
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