Youre gonna be 60 percent of the way in before you know thats what youre reading.
The Pairingis out from St. Martins August 6.
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I am writing for trans people capital-FFor, McQuiston says.
Im really interested in those people, too.
I think they have often been underestimated.
And I think they should peg their husbands.
With little publicity, the book became so popular that it quickly required multiple printings.
By the end of 2019, there were 100,000 copies in circulation.
Isabel Kaufman, a literary agent and a friend of McQuistons, agrees.
But those qualities are part of who Kit and Theo are, not a driving plot mechanism.
Despite McQuistons enormous success, being misunderstood is still a source of anxiety for them.
Some of it has to do with gender and sexuality.
Most of the time, Im engaging with people who know me and understand me and gender me correctly.
I forget that sometimes I have to go back out into the wider world.
I dont think they knew the extent of what it was like, McQuiston says.
As restrictive as the school was, McQuiston says it made them resourceful.
I was looking to create my own little book and live there.
They attended Louisiana State University, where they studied journalism in an attempt to be practical.
It was like,Oh, I was always supposed to be a romance writer, they say.
They now live in Queens with their partner, who works in publicity at a publishing firm.
Writing the sequels screenplay has presented interesting challenges, especially because theres no book to work from.
Other than that, were making it up as we go.
But Im also considering it as a different canon.
Changes that were made in adapting ripple out into character and story.
What does that mean about what they want now and what they care about?
The other project occupying McQuistons mind is the one that will become their next book.
Itll be a spinoff ofThe Pairing,though they cant yet say which character will play the central role.
They love this part of the writing process.
Travel and the time and space to research were not available to them earlier in their career.
They had top surgery in November and had never swum with their shirt off before.
Theyre so happy to be at this place of freedom with their work.
It is exactly what I want to be putting out as an artist right now.
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