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The only way I will accept this book's cancellation is if they replace it with a Jacen Solo Force trip novel. And that is the only thing that would make me accept this as a cancellation, if it is indeed what is occurring.

What I am curious about is this: In the past when we have had books cancelled, they are mostly replaced with another book that has nothing whatsoever to do with the cancelled book, and more often than not, they also replace the author with someone different.

What I want to know is this: Let's say Blood Oath is indeed cancelled. Why can't they just get another author to write a novel that is more or less what Blood Oath was going to be anyway? Obviously, you would have to significantly alter the plot, otherwise Elaine Cunningham could sue the asses off of Del Rey and so she should, but why can't you, for example, get another author hired and say: "Hey write a novel set after Invincible that has an A Plot of Zekk's survival and a B Plot of Jagged Fel's rise to Grand Moff of the Moffs on the Moffship."

I mean... why can't they do that? The bare bones story - that is, Zekk's survival and Jag's rise to power is what the novel was going to be before Ms Cunningham even signed on, so why go through all the effort of making up an entirely new story and then getting the author to craft that from the start?