Do you need to read Our Child of the Stars first?
They are two halves of the story. In fact Two Worlds starts a week after the first book. My very experienced editor says it works as a standalone but full disclosure plenty of enthusiastic reviewers recommend reading the first one as well. There are some deals on Amazon and elsewhere.
Our Child of the Stars would make a great film! Will two books make that more likely? Is that planned?
It would make a stellar film (pun intended). Film rights, and for that matter, non-English translation rights, remain available!
Will there be another Cory book?
It is lovely that every discussion and some reviews ask for a third book.
Quick answer, Never Say Never.
I’ve delivered on my two-book deal and right now I am writing something else. The family story conceived required two but not three books. For various reasons, Our Child of the Stars was written to stand up if there wasn’t a second book commissioned. Two Worlds was written to close the original story but leave options open.
Yes, the Coryverse could be explored further. Such a book might not be set in the US and probably would not have Cory Gene and Molly as the core characters.
There’s the mysterious alien presence before Cory arrived – the alien computers speak ten Earth languages. There’s a lot of stuff happens off screen for the two novels. And then, there is what happens next. I think the ending of Two Worlds is great but it doesn’t resolve a lot of things.
Four interlocking issues about a third book
Whether my publisher would do it
Whether it would be the thing I most want to do – writing a novel is a commitment
Whether I could meet and exceed the standard of the first two
Whether it would be worth my time
It will make a third book much more if people buy the books, tell their friends, reviewing it positively, get book-groups to discuss it, ask libraries to stock it, etc