“I wrote a book that made my brain buzz and was fun and what I want to read,” McQuiston says. It’s now being adapted into a film by Amazon Studios. Instead, word of mouth spread on social media, landing the book on the New York Times best-seller list. Her 2019 debut novel, Red, White & Royal Blue, about the relationship between the Prince of Wales and America’s first son, was an instant and unexpected success: the book found an eager audience without any of the conventional launchpads, like a celebrity book club or splashy publicity campaign.
Which is what McQuiston, 30, has set out to do with her fiction. “I know that sounds very corny,” McQuiston says, gazing at the Manhattan skyline from a picnic table across the East River.īut so what if it’s corny? Corny can be nice. The author has always been drawn to romances that seem a little impossible-ones that show that the power of love can transcend anything, even time and space.
“One of the coolest things about having the job that I have is getting to have that window into this alternate universe where I get to be part of this community of queer kids, in a way I never got to be at that age,” they said.Three words came to Casey McQuiston while she was taking a bath: magic subway lesbians. McQuiston said as much as the book was written for others, it was written for them, too, and they recently toured the book and met younger readers. McQuiston’s latest book, “I Kissed Shara Wheeler,” is a queer coming-of-age story geared toward young adult readers. “Like, there’s so many queer romance novels that it’s an embarrassment of riches,” they said. They said they imagine a scenario when an entire section of a bookstore is queer romance. In particular, they said they’d like to see more transfeminine romance stories and romance novels by Black, Asian, Latinx and Indigenous writers. A huge success, the film adaptation will begin shooting this summer, and it has just been announced Uma Thurman will be playing one of the key roles.Īs McQuiston has watched the market for queer romance stories broaden, they see even more opportunities to deepen the representation that’s already out there. They persevered, and the book sold in 2018.
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