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‘Red, White & Royal Blue’: Will Casey McQuiston Write a Sequel After New Novella?
What To Know
- Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue: The Private Correspondence will explore Alex and Henry’s relationship through letters.
- The novella is intentionally written with gaps and unexplored moments over the course of 20 years.
- In an interview with Swooon, McQuiston reveals their thoughts about a full-length sequel book after the novella.
Ever since Casey McQuiston published their 2019 debut novel, Red, White & Royal Blue, fans have wondered whether Alex and Henry’s love story would continue after they got their happy ending. Now that they’re getting novella The Private Correspondence — and a movie adaptation sequel, (but it’s a separate entity from the books at this point) — what does that mean for a potential full-length book sequel?
The novella, which has a December 1 release date, will explore the next chapter of the First Son of the United States and Prince of England’s relationship through letters, postcards, journal entries, and more — no emails, of course. Spanning 20 years into the future, the novella hits major milestones like Alex and Henry’s wedding, becoming parents, and more. Due to the format, McQuiston doesn’t fully describe those events.
Thus, McQuiston wrote The Private Correspondence in a way that could allow them to return to those moments later on. When Swooon asked whether they were thinking of a potential sequel book set during or after The Private Correspondence, the author confirmed that was something they considered while writing, “leaving gaps for if [they] did want to do a book that was set within that timeline, that there would still be stuff to say about what was going on in their lives at that time.”
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“So, sometimes, you’ll see them coming up to a decision but not going through with it, and you’ll just see what happens after they go through with it,” McQuiston told Swooon at New York Comic Con on October 9. “I think there are moments that I could see a version of a sequel that would just be literally all of the chaos around their wedding. You know, stuff like that.”
The author, who enjoyed writing Alex and Henry at the same age they are now for The Private Correspondence, added, “I don’t know, I don’t feel qualified yet to write about them in their 40s because I’m only 35. When I’m writing them now in their 30s, I’m like, ‘Oh, I couldn’t have written this when I was 25.’ So maybe give me like 10 more years.”
