Red, White & Royal Blue, the 2019 debut novel by Casey McQuiston. Published two years ago today, it was a New York Times best-seller that carved out a new space for LGBTQ+ romance novels — and its influence has only gotten bigger as we've slogged through quarantine and the end of the Trump presidency."This book has found its greatest success in the last six months," McQuiston told The Advocate.
On the phone from New York City, the 30-year-old queer author was weeks away from the release of her highly-anticipated second novel, One Last Stop. "I have seen more sales and more responses from readers and more everything in the past several months of the pandemic, than I did in the first year that the book was out." She first came up with the.