Why were Ax and Tobias' books spaced farther apart from the others?

[estrid]

maybe KA was just lazy to think of plots for those 2 cuz yes, it musta been harder but still, im sure she coulda thought of good plots had she tried

*cough* 36-44 *cough*
i guess not haha

dude, obviously she thought of plots for them, once in a while. BUT the point of this thread is they had less books, and im saying she could only sumx think of a plot, unlike for the others where she could always think of a plot in a timely schedule of some sort. which is proly why ax and tobias had less boox. duh

[Duff]

maybe they just didnt think people would respond as much to ax and tobias at first and then once they were like hey people like them the whole structure was kinda locked in so why rock the boat lol

[estrid]

nah, if she really wanted to she coulda fit it in. she just didn't. lazy it is

[CounterInstinct]

maybe she found it hard to think of other plotlines... lazy or not, I think Tobias and Ax had the least of issues to deal with.

[musicman88]

Yeah, how many times can you have Tobias out looking for food and Ax tinkering with something in his scoop?

[estrid]

maybe she found it hard to think of other plotlines... lazy or not, I think Tobias and Ax had the least of issues to deal with.

i dont know bout that. id say they had the most issues to deal with. ax has to stay outta site, tobias is one cofused little birdie, she coulda made it wrk. its not like EVERY book woulda been about them. just every other book

[Estelore]

I think that Ax probably had the MOST problems.
He's marooned on a planet that supplies all his physical needs, once he gets acclimated (recall in the Andalite Chronicles that Loren responded badly to the Andalite atmosphere, which means that their lungs require a different chemical composition in the air than Human lungs).
His only social contact is with people not of his species.
He's been thrown right into the front lines of a MAJOR war, and he's just a kid.
He's expected to know more than he really knows.
He's viewed occasionally with major distrust.
He may never get home, as far as he knows.

This guy has ISSUES, folks. You would, too, in his position.

[estrid]

well yes, ax has alota issues, which is y he shoulda had more books so they coulod talk about them

[Tim Bruening]

well even if this wasn't the answer, it would cause problems for the cover morphs. Tobias doesn't regain his morphing power until #13. they already did hawk to tobias for #3. what are they gonna do for #8 if it was a tobias book. they could have tobias regain his power in #8, but I don't know. it gets confusing then...

So KA didn't want the cover artist to have to draw just a boring red-tailed hawk that can't morph a thing, so she postponed the next Tobias book until she could arrange for him to get his morphing powers back?

[Dylan]

So KA didn't want the cover artist to have to draw just a boring red-tailed hawk that can't morph a thing, so she postponed the next Tobias book until she could arrange for him to get his morphing powers back?

No. The official reason why this happened was that the editors weren't sure that Tobias and Ax would be as popular as the other characters. Boy, were they ever mistaken!   

[Chad32]

Spacing them out did keep them from being overdone, which probably helped their popularity.

[Tim Bruening]

Spacing them out did keep them from being overdone, which probably helped their popularity.

Tobias' 1st book was #3.  The cover showed him morphing from human to hawk, even though he was frozen in hawk form at the time.  That could be excused, since it WAS Tobias' first narration.

However, if any more Tobias books had been written during the time he was unable to morph, what would the cover artists have drawn?  (Just a boring hawk that can't morph?  A series of hawk images that don't change?).

[Quaf]

He was able to morph and that''s all there is to it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if K.A. introduced tobias's ability to morph just for the cover artists.