Before I comment: the following has nothing to do with Melusine, which I haven't read and which I'm v. much looking forward to reading.
That said. *g* As a reader, I can say that I don't care whether there's no sequel, one sequel, or twenty. I want a satisfying experience reading the book that I've got in my hands at the moment.
Which doesn't mean that every thread has to be tied up. (You don't have to tie up every thread even if you're writing a standalone.) It just means--and there are lots of ways to pull it off--that the book has to be satisfying. If it's not, I'm not going to be interested in any sequels, because I won't trust the writer to do a better job with them.
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That said. *g* As a reader, I can say that I don't care whether there's no sequel, one sequel, or twenty. I want a satisfying experience reading the book that I've got in my hands at the moment.
Which doesn't mean that every thread has to be tied up. (You don't have to tie up every thread even if you're writing a standalone.) It just means--and there are lots of ways to pull it off--that the book has to be satisfying. If it's not, I'm not going to be interested in any sequels, because I won't trust the writer to do a better job with them.