@dougbThe e-mail cited below is roughly two and a half years old. I haven't heard from him since. Nor have I sent him anything.
" Hope you're well. I'm doing great. Business is going like gang busters and has gone in directions I could not have predicted.
Haven't written a lick of fiction in 2+ years. I'll get back to it someday, but it will have to be a point where I can give it the time it needs.
Looks like I've gotten a couple of requests by other authors to continue on the series. If you want to play messenger and pass along my sentiments?
For the record,I'm fine with it. Long as I retain all rights to the original material (that's a given) and the audience is made aware that whatever path the 'new' authors take is entirely their own. Anything I might choose to write within those universes, in some distant the future, would chart a completely independent path. No, I won't share plot outlines, notes, or thoughts I had about that. That would be cheating, ha!"