my bad. maybe.
I have all your books and just re-read the whole series. I am still not satisfied with the way you left the information regarding the death of Hannah's husband. It left a big gap in the book that seemed like you were just leaving it for the next installment. All your other books had been complete and satisfying into themselves. Will we learn what happened to him and Hawkeye in the next book. Thank you for writing such wonderful stories.Once in a while a reader gets irritated with me, and to be truthful: I understand. I get irritated with authors sometimes, too. I really hate that Larry McMurtry kills off Gus in Lonesome Dove, for example, and when he killed off Newt in the sequel, well. That struck me as totally wrong. If I ever meet Larry McMurtry-- I won't have the nerve to say so, but I think it was a rotten thing to do. So yes, I understand. But.
Sometimes you do have to wait for a storyline to be resolved. I don't hold back information to tease or to get you to buy the next book -- I do it, usually, because not everything has been revealed to me, either. My subconscious has a role to play in what gets told, and sometimes it holds on tight to bits that aren't quite ready for public consumption.
Some readers were pretty upset that there was a crucial letter in Lake in the Clouds -- one that would have cleared up a lot of questions about what happened to a young slave -- that never gets opened. When the letter was opened, in Fire Along the Sky, the need for the delay became clear (at least I hope it did).
Reading this over, it doesn't seem like much of an explanation -- but I hope it will help, a little at least.