I don't know what comments Boyett has gotten from furry fans in particular, but it is not unusual for any author of a really popular story or series to be bugged to the point of madness by his/her fans for a sequel that he/she really does not want to write. Examples: Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes; L. Frank Baum and the Oz novels; Dean Koontz and "The Watchers". Look at all of the fan fiction about "Star Trek" or Disney's "The Lion King" or Don Bluth's "The Secret of NIMH" or "MLP:FIM" or how many Oz books there have been since the Oz copyrights have expired. Or authorized and unauthorized sequels to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind". "Don Quixote" was originally written in two parts ten years apart, 1605 and 1615, and Miguel de Cervantes found several "part 2s" being written by fans, or by people just wanting to cash in on its popularity, until he finished the genuine part 2. (This was before copyrights, of course.) In what might be called the prehistoric age of furry fandom (1942), Fredric Brown's "The Star Mouse" got so many demands for a sequel that he finally wrote "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) as a real stinker, just to shut his fans up. If he had really wanted to cash in on Mitkey, the talking mouse, he could have planned numerous sequels. So I wonder about Boyett's blaming furry fans in particular for his being bombarded by pleadings for more about his raccoon world.
I don't know what comments Boyett has gotten from furry fans in particular, but it is not unusual for any author of a really popular story or series to be bugged to the point of madness by his/her fans for a sequel that he/she really does not want to write. Examples: Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes; L. Frank Baum and the Oz novels; Dean Koontz and "The Watchers". Look at all of the fan fiction about "Star Trek" or Disney's "The Lion King" or Don Bluth's "The Secret of NIMH" or "MLP:FIM" or how many Oz books there have been since the Oz copyrights have expired. Or authorized and unauthorized sequels to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind". "Don Quixote" was originally written in two parts ten years apart, 1605 and 1615, and Miguel de Cervantes found several "part 2s" being written by fans, or by people just wanting to cash in on its popularity, until he finished the genuine part 2. (This was before copyrights, of course.) In what might be called the prehistoric age of furry fandom (1942), Fredric Brown's "The Star Mouse" got so many demands for a sequel that he finally wrote "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) as a real stinker, just to shut his fans up. If he had really wanted to cash in on Mitkey, the talking mouse, he could have planned numerous sequels. So I wonder about Boyett's blaming furry fans in particular for his being bombarded by pleadings for more about his raccoon world.
Fred Patten