How do y’all feel about continuing a series after an author dies? To me, I think one last book can be written to end it, but the series should rest with the author, just my thoughts though. I’m in the middle of a series right now and some random lady is “finishing” it, but she has written like 7 books that show no end. I’m not mad, but I just want to feel the satisfaction of completing a series and having the whole collection.
I feel like after a significant amount of time — maybe 25 years — it can be OK. I’ve enjoyed stories in the James Bond and Philip Marlowe series done by other authors, even though they’re never really the same as the originals. Both of those series only came decades later, and that helps. By then it’s not about keeping the gravy train rolling, more about fond homage.