Is this sacrilegious?

[forester48.livejournal.com]

Donkey's years ago in the eighties I wrote to AF asking if there was going to be another book to follow Run Away Home. She answered very nicely to say yes there was one in progress so I waited . . . and waited . . . but then got fed up waiting and wrote my own sequel. Then I wrote to AF again asking if she'd like to see it. She didn't - can't say I blame her - but she didn't seem to mind either.

Is there an audience out there who'd like to read my poor offering? 'Tis but a shadow of the real thing but I sense a thirst for anything going. Or is it just too cringemakingly sacrilegious? What would the Marlows think - would they like another airing or would they prefer to be laid gently to rest?

Comments

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely!

Do I remember reading somewhere about AF's literary executor finding no trace of the Mythical Sequel's manuscript and concluding it had been destroyed when AF realised she'd never finish it? Or was that just a horrible nightmare?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Sadly not a horrible nightmare - no trace, as far as I know. It's enough to make you weep, m'dear.

[coughingbear]

I'm afraid that's true (acc. to friend of literary executor). But they did find various cancelled scenes from Run Away Home.

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

If only she'd done a Virgil and left it to her friends to destroy it after her death...

Is there any chance they'll be published, do you know?

[coughingbear]

They'll be available/discussed at the Forest conference in June, and I think there is a plan to publish them along with some papers from the conference afterwards. So I hope so! (Of course, I have no idea what the snippets are like.)

[owl]

How sad!

[childeproof.livejournal.com]

Is this TRUE? How awful - I was counting on something emerging...

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too, at least enough to show how she was planning on tying up all those loose ends. But other commenters are saying it's sad but true.