An interesting creative question, regarding my character Andrea Cort:
The character lives on in short fiction. There was one published this year, “Tasha’s Fail-Safe,” and another coming out next year, “The Coward’s Option.” (Don’t expect more novels unless I become a big deal via another franchise.) But I am, pretty much, telling stories from the beginning of Andrea’s career, by necessity, and that necessity is defined by the place where she is le…ft, by the novel and novella that take place last, chronologically.
In WAR OF THE MARIONETTES (only available in English in audible edition, and yeah, I know; getting it in shape for e-book publication will be a substantial job), and in the subsequent novella “Hiding Place,” we find out that Andrea has decided to go ahead and cylink with her lovers, Oscin and Skye Porrinyard. This process, established in the novels, will make them one shared personality. Andrea as we know her will no longer exist. The Porrinyards will no longer exist. What will exist instead is an entirely new individual, capable of acting in concert or separately, but still possessing only one entirely new shared personality between them.
Were any Andrea Cort stories to take place after “Hiding Place,” she will not be Andrea Cort. At all. Unless some disaster occurred to stop the union.
I’m not sure that this is a story I want to write. It’s…excuse me…character assassination. And I don’t want to prevent it by ripping the Porrinyards out of her life.
So, question opened up to folks who have followed the tales and know what I’m talking about:
Would you prefer to know or not know?
Comment By: Kelli
July 15th, 2015 at 2:34 pm
I don’t want to know. I would prefer not to see the Andrea’s personality disappear.
Comment By: Wayne
July 20th, 2015 at 2:13 pm
I do not want to know… Andrea is your character, if you feel you have reached the end of her current possible development then sure, it makes sense to toss a grenade in, do a full change up.
(Not reading German) I feel as though there is still lots of room for Andrea to explore, with less looking back, more forward. People who constantly return to a place of of pain as their defining moment are tiresome in real life and, eventually insufferable in a written character.
This is no to say you are there already, but to say imagine if Andrea tried the link and it failed, or it was sabotaged by the AIsource or some such. That would give her a fresh hell to focus her considerable venom on… ;)… and more plotting of the downfall of the Alsource which I would love to see more of…
Just a few thoughts, thanks