crudcutter:
Are suggestions for follow-on stories generally welcomed by authors, or are they just an unwelcome distraction?
In my case I certainly don't mind, particularly if the reader has a question or suggestion of where things might go from there. I might not use that exact idea but it might inspire me to veer off in another direction or use that concept in a different story.
For example, I recently posted the first part of a story about a girl getting sentenced to punishment at a Judicial Center with a threatened follow-up punishment from her dad as the second part (just posted today). As part of the story, her mother helps walk her through the process because she suffered through the same indignity herself several months earlier.
One of the readers posed a question I hadn't considered: dad was livid at his daughter and planned to wreak havoc on her backside as a result, but had he responded that same way earlier when his wife got caught doing essentially the same thing? Until that point I had no intentions of continuing the saga any further, but that comment inspired me to create a prequel that tells mom's experience and dad's reaction to it (thanks to Hoddle you can expect to eventually see "Mom's Visit to the Judicial Center").
So as far as I'm concerned, feel free to toss out any comments you might have.