![]() ![]() Sending it to press was less of a lifetime wish-fulfillment and more of a happy accident: the whole thing came about after a 2015 breakup, when McQuiston was trying one identity crisis-fueled hobby after another. The stakes were a lot lower back in May 2019, when she released her debut novel Red, White & Royal Blue - an unlikely love story between the prince of England and the son of the first woman president. ![]() “That's when you start to really get freaked out.” “It’s definitely a little bit of a mindf*ck no matter what expectations you have for your second book, especially when people assign the word ‘hype’ to you,” McQuiston tells me. ![]() But given the unending excitement for its publication earlier this month, you’d think it was her twenty-second. Pithy and energetic, she almost seems like an amalgamation of the protagonist and love interest from her brand new novel, One Last Stop.Ī sapphic romance about an unmoored 23-year-old who falls for an immortal, subway-bound woman from the 1970s, One Last Stop is only McQuiston’s second book. When the bestselling romance author arrives at our meeting spot in Queens on a sunny 75-degree day, she’s toting two cups of coconut fruit ice from a nearby stand.Īs we chat, McQuiston riffs at a fast clip with animated hand gestures, weaving in self-deprecating asides and pop culture references. ![]()
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