User blog comment:Argulor/How would Jacques have ended the series?/@comment-3474228-20130809171535

If he knew he was going to die, I think he would attempt to write a fitting conclusion. As that was not the case, we got what we got. I can admit though that I'm a little bummed out that he started writing in chronological order and got rid of inter-book connections.

Also I think that whatever it was called, Pondicherry or not, I'm sure he was probably in the process of working on another novel, so Salem is probably wrong in saying that it was a debunked rumor.