Hmmm, yes...Singing Sontarans - well reminded! ;D Okay, so currently the list goes - Black Bore (priority!)...Sontarans Up the Jungle!...Seven/Beatrix Potter...at least six or seven additional retro-TWood stories I will almost certainly never do now...and the what-the-hell-was-going-on-in-EoT fic I started when I was a bit, well, drunk on New Year's Day and never finished... ;D
Well, somewhat predictably, I was thinking in terms of a trilogy... (Tentative titles: Midwinter, Equinox and Midsummer...although on second thoughts those sound a bit too much like those bloody Twilight novels...). Well, the current story is more or less self-contained, I think, but the historical events it sets in train have to play out somehow, and at least one of the current viewpoint characters is going to live long enough to see at least some of them come to pass... I'm sort of coming to the conclusion that you suggest above, that instead of trying to second-guess "the market", I should just write the thing and then let it live or die on its own merits...in the current form I'm envisaging, it doesn't seem too "fandom friendly" - the current crop of fantasy series seem to have whole casts of suitably likeable/hateable goodies and baddies who seem just designed for people to dress up at at conventions, whereas I've got precisely two "main characters", one of whom is a religious prophet who may or may not be just imagining all of the portents and omens they claim to see, and the other is a slightly clueless knight who ends up involved in high treason without really realising it...
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Well, somewhat predictably, I was thinking in terms of a trilogy... (Tentative titles: Midwinter, Equinox and Midsummer...although on second thoughts those sound a bit too much like those bloody Twilight novels...). Well, the current story is more or less self-contained, I think, but the historical events it sets in train have to play out somehow, and at least one of the current viewpoint characters is going to live long enough to see at least some of them come to pass... I'm sort of coming to the conclusion that you suggest above, that instead of trying to second-guess "the market", I should just write the thing and then let it live or die on its own merits...in the current form I'm envisaging, it doesn't seem too "fandom friendly" - the current crop of fantasy series seem to have whole casts of suitably likeable/hateable goodies and baddies who seem just designed for people to dress up at at conventions, whereas I've got precisely two "main characters", one of whom is a religious prophet who may or may not be just imagining all of the portents and omens they claim to see, and the other is a slightly clueless knight who ends up involved in high treason without really realising it...