I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

It is always interesting to me when a fan writer whose work I like overall writes a book that is an apparent (obvious) side-spin to a fandom they were writing, and it's a gripping book, and then the rest of what they write doesn't quite do anything for me. It's happened several times over the years. I don't know if it's because I'm aware of their fan work and so was happy to see a specific niche shaved and filed smoothly because it's what I was looking for, or what. It's a me problem, clearly; I want more profic that's like fanfic, but not in that annoying 'hey check out the AO3 tags that go with this' way. #contrary

In any case, I find your reviews more interesting than the books they are about sometimes!