The Conclusion to Neuro-Divergence

If you hate getting into a series only to have the author drop it, trust me, authors hate it far more than you do.

In a way, it’s like having a kid die. You start something, put a lot of heart and effort into it, only to have something go sideways. There are a lot reasons why authors drop series, but the reason I stopped Neuro-Divergence was because book 2 bombed.

There’s no other way to put it. The read-through from Escherian Core to Kafkaesque Passage is easily the weakest of any series I’ve done. I suspect that a lot of readers just didn’t like the big reveal at the end of Escherian Core and dropped it. Given that, I just couldn’t justify the time it would take for a concluding book 3.

But the fact that I’d ended Kafkaesque Passage on such a huge cliffhanger grated on me, particularly because there were some readers who loved the series and kept asking me when the next book was coming. I just didn’t know what to do.

And then, late last year, my audiobook publisher asked about it as well. Because as it turns out, the audiobooks have done reasonably well, enough to justify doing a boxset. But I couldn’t see releasing a “complete series” for something that was very emphatically not complete. What to do?

Well, what I did was work out a deal with RGP to write a bit more to wrap things up. Which I have now done. It’s not book 3, but it’s a conclusion, and I think it works.

It came in at just under 15k words, and as we speak, I’ve added it to a new, extended version of Kafkaesque Passage. So if you have that book, you just need to refresh your Kindle app, and it will be there. You don’t need to buy anything! (It may not show up for a day or two, so if you don’t see it at first, try again.)

The new section is being recorded and added to the audiobook, and the completed files will be released as the complete series audio. For those of you who have been waiting for this, I hope you enjoy it.