DISCLAIMER: I am about to speak honestly.  Consider yourself warned.

One of the questions I am asked most frequently is, "What happens next?  Where is Book Three?" 

The short answer is that I wrote Book Three a few years ago, but Tor decided not to buy it.  Despite the positive reviews Hope's End received, it did not sell as quickly as its publisher had hoped.  It was published, incidentally, in August/September, 2001, at the same time as the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Needless to say, few books--especially books with titles like Hope's End--sold at that time.  The following year--based on the track record of Hope's End--very few copies of Hope's War were published.  The saga is a bit more complicated, but that's the abbreviated explanation for why the third book has not been published.

HOPE'S REBIRTH

The third novel is called Hope's Rebirth, and, based on the number of e-mails I have received about this over the years, I have finally put the first chapters online (look to the right).  My plan is essentially this: now that the first few chapters of Hope's Rebirth are available on this website, I'll see what the response is.  If you are one of those people who finished Hope's War and said, "And..?" I suspect you may appreciate that. 

If I see that there is interest, I may post some more of the book. 

Thanks for reading.

schambers at sff dot net

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