Making the Next Book: Sequels and Spin Offs

Your First Book Is Already Saved

There is nothing to save or lock before you start the next one. Books save as you work, and a finished book stays under Stories for as long as you keep it. Ordering a printed copy does not use the book up. You can keep editing it, order it again, or leave it exactly as it is.

Start the Next Book From the Last One

Click New Story. Once you have at least one book, the first thing you see is "Start from a book you've made?" with your most recent books listed.

Click the book you want to build on.
Pick Continue the story or New adventure (more on the difference below).
You land on "Who's in the story?" with that book's characters already selected.

Three things come across from the book you picked:

The characters, each with the role they had in that book.
The art style.
The book size, so the two books match on a shelf.

Everything stays editable. Untick a character, add a new one with New, or change the style and size on the last step. Nothing about the earlier book changes.

What does not come across is the content. The new book starts with no text, no pictures and its own cover.

If you would rather begin with a clean slate, click Start fresh, the first option in the list. That opens New Story the way it always has, with your whole Cast selected.

Continue the Story, or a New Adventure

This is the one question the app asks, and it decides two things.

Continue the story makes the new book the next one after the book you picked.

If AI writes the story, it is given the earlier book first, so the new one picks up where that one ended instead of starting over.
The new book joins the same series as the next episode. If the earlier book was not in a series yet, one is started and the earlier book becomes episode 1. See Story Series & Episodes for what a series does.

New adventure keeps the characters and the look and nothing else.

AI is told only that these characters have appeared before. It is not given the earlier plot, so the story stands on its own.
The new book is not added to a series.

Choose Continue the story for a part two. Choose New adventure when the same cast is going somewhere unrelated.

If You Have Already Written the Next Book

You do not need AI to write anything. On "What's the story about?", look under the idea box for "Already have the text? Write it word for word". Write it there, paste it, or upload a document, and your exact words become the pages.

This works the same after picking a book. Your characters, style and size are already set, and with Continue the story the book still joins the series as the next episode.

If You Want Ideas

After picking a book, the story step shows "Suggest ideas for what happens next" (or "Suggest ideas for a new adventure"). Click it for a few suggestions. Clicking one puts it in the idea box, where you can edit it before pressing Write my story.

Suggestions only appear when you ask for them, because they count toward your daily AI use.

From Inside a Book

You can also start from the book itself. Open it, open the Story menu, and choose Sequel or Spin Off. That opens the same New Story steps with that book already picked: Sequel is Continue the story, and Spin Off is New adventure.

Asking Toony

Toony can do all of this for you. Ask for a sequel to a book by name, or use Create a sequel in the assistant. Toony reads the earlier book before writing, and the new book takes the earlier one's characters, art style and size. A sequel is filed as the next episode, and Toony tells you which number it got.

If you already have the text, say so and paste it. Toony enters your words as written.

Keeping a Set of Books Looking Like a Set

The characters look the same from book to book because every book draws them from the same saved pictures in your Cast. That has one consequence worth knowing: if you change a character's picture later, pages you draw after that follow the new picture, in every book. Pages already drawn keep the look they have until you redraw them.

Size is the other thing to keep steady. Starting from an earlier book sets it for you. If you start fresh instead, pick the same size on the last step, since changing it after the pages are illustrated crops the art to the new shape.

What It Costs

Starting from an earlier book is free, and so is writing the text. Illustrations cost credits the same way they do in any book. See Credits & Pricing.

Story Series & Episodes, for the back-cover code that leads a reader from one book to the next.
Character Consistency, for how saved character pictures drive every page.