Author Robbie Couch is getting ready to release his debut YA novel The Sky Blues on April 6 through Simon & Schuster. The story centers around Sky, an openly gay teenager living a small Midwestern town.Couch himself is openly gay and grew up in Clio, Michigan, a town with a population of less than 3,000 people.
Though he drew inspiration from some of own experiences, he maintains the book is fiction.Queerty was lucky enough to talk to Couch about his literary debut, growing up gay in small town USA, and the time he hand-delivered a dress to Gayle King at her apartment.
This is what he had to say…QUEERTY: What’s something most people don’t know about you?COUCH: I hand-delivered a dress to Gayle King at her apartment in 2011.