Geez. I don't know you, and I haven't read your manuscript. It might be the best trilogy ever written.
I shall assume that is the case. Even so, my advice is, do not label it a trilogy. I know very well you didn't say you were going to label it a trilogy, but you didn't say you weren't, so I thought I'd give some free advice. No reason to be offended on behalf of all trilogies everywhere. My grudge is with the editors, publishers, agents and writers who put 'trilogy' on the cover of something that isn't really a trilogy, just because it will sell better. Whether the book is good or not has nothing to do with this: 'the Earthsea trilogy' is very well written, but Le Guin added a fourth volume, and now it's 'the Earthsea Quartet', and the quality of the fourth volume ruined the whole world for many faithful readers. And then I think there was a fifth volume or something, and a book of short stories.
I just want terms to be used correctly. Don't take anything I say personally, I'm a hate machine even when I'm trying to not bite anyone's head off. I don't know you, I haven't read your book, and I'm glad you weren't planning of calling it a trilogy. I don't mind people writing trilogies, if they do it correctly and creatively. I have nothing against you or your book, and when my library buys it, I'll read it. I'd buy it, but by the time you're done writing I'll be out of shelf space, table space, and any other space I could possibly use to store books in. Unless I discover L-space. I've been looking for it a while now...
