For what it’s worth if he can get out of the corner he has painted himself into (young characters with a 5 year gap that vanished) and gets book 6 published then there’s a reasonable chance that he could do a 7th book far more quickly. But we’ll see…
Assuming the shooter is an unhappy customer of UHC, it’s for damned sure that UHC has killed way more of their customers than the other way around. But now the customers are on the board with their first kill.