Stephen Finnemore
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
Your Recluse series jumps around in time from two book sets to the next, in your other novels you follow the three book series method. Compared to many other authors, you are the only one that seems to jump in time completely, where others just use the "flash back" or legend tales. Do you find this to be unique in your writing or is it how the stories have developed in your exploration on how they want to be told?
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
I don't explicitly read other authors and compare how they handle a series, but from what I've read in F&SF over more than fifty years, I would say that my way of writing a series is certainly not a method adopted or followed by many others. As I recall, I don't believe Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover novels were written in strictly chronological order. Nor are Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books, at least as I remember them. But, offhand, those are the only ones that I know of that "skip around."
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Carl Federl
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L.E. Modesitt Jr.:
In Isolate, discovered that you may have been subtle in the choice of character names. Steffan is crown in old German and Deckard is roofer in Dutch, so Crown Protector? Avraal Ysella is "modest flower of spring" , Axel Obredur is "worker for peace" and Ingella is "Daughter of Hero". Do more of the character names have subtle meanings of importance? P.S. Compiling characters and have 101 name thru Chapter 36.
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