Ha! Some dude wrote a review of Axis Mundi Sum for Amazon, bitching about the lack of an ending and my presence in the book as a character and the author. He said he hoped it would be the first book of a trilogy, and if it wasn't, it would be even worse.

He's got some valid points. The author-as-character device is hackneyed, but it was amusing at the time. As for the ending, well, finality ain't much fun. Neatly wrapping up a book's worth of ramshackle adventures didn't strike me as the right thing to do, especially since half the characters- Kellogg, Null and Void, and Jennyquinn and Leigh, mainly- weren't in a position to conclude their escapades.

Fuck it, though. At least he read the thing and wasn't completely appalled. Then again, he did recommend reading one of Dan Brown's books instead of AMS. This doesn't strike me as a particularly creative, or even apt, suggestion, since (as far as I understand), Brown is a poor man's Umberto Eco when it comes to conspiracy fiction, while I'm the equivalent of a lazy fuck sleeping off a hangover in one of Eco's semiotics classes, and make no claims to much of anything. Comparing us is a waste of effort, but at least I'm the one not wasting it.