LJ Genie: Book Search

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Several months ago, I read a copy of "Child of Earth" by David Gerrold. It was pretty good, and so I started looking around for info on when the sequel "Child of Grass" was going to come out. As far as I can tell though it does not even have an expected release date. Now according to David Gerrold's website, in 2003 he had actually taken one story, added a bunch stuff to the middle, broken it up into 2 stories, and sent both off to the publisher. Now part of me is wondering if it is likely that the publisher might have decided not to publish the second book, except that they promoted it (with included first chapter) at the end of the "Child of Earth". Does anyone have any good advice on how to figure out what is going on with this book?