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@taylorclogston Whew! That’s tough. My belief is that you shouldn’t publish something you don’t think is high quality, but if you’ve already done that, what then?

I actually self-published a novel about two years back that I’m still struggling over. It was publishable I think, but I’ve also improved quite a lot since then and I don’t exactly want to be known by that first book. So should I leave it published and just never market it, or should I unpublish it? I don’t know.

A little commiseration for you there.

Anyway, writing is hard enough I don’t think you should write a whole series you don’t care for just to satisfy readers. On the one hand, don’t think it’s the end of the world is you start from scratch. If your following isn’t huge, you won’t be loosing that much and only a few people will have a bad opinion of you — the rest will have no idea you ever started a series and then hid its existence.

But for your honor it would be best to give these readers some closure. I think the idea of writing one more book to close it off sounds good. Or you could try to work with the trajectory you established and try to turn it into a series that excites you just as much.