Orson Scott Card

[Commonmind]

Card's revisiting of his Ender universe is not to be blamed on a need for commercial success. He - if I'm not too out of date - still works as a professor and enjoys his work. If that is still the case, it pretty much rules out his want for financial gain. There are arguments to be made otherwise, but I don't believe that, in his case, money is the motivation behind his writing; some of it is too ephemeral, and too thematic - two concepts that do not generally sell well to the mainstream. What card does is really no different than most sci-fi and fantasy writers, he's created an epic. The absence of a numerical system seems to do him an injustice, however, as he's constantly accused of dipping into the same pot. If each book had been given a number within the series, we might not have that issue.