I was really inspired by that, and so I had this idea that I wanted to do a sort of magical or supernatural or paranormal or sci-fi type of impossible romance that would play with the idea of the subway as a liminal space. Just taking the subway, looking out the window of the subway car into the other train passing in a tunnel, and that sort of feeling of probably the closest you can get to approximating liminal space in real life. So, that whole experience to me - it was like, wow it’s just like on TV! It just seems so magical.Īnd that was kind of what inspired it. I’m from the South, and, where I’m from, we don’t have a lot of public-transit service, certainly not underground public transit.
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And so, the whole trip up there, I’m like, oh my god, what am I going to do next? What’s my next book? And that was also the first trip that I - I’ve been to New York several times, but I had never really done the subway by myself extensively, and that was the first time I really learned how to navigate it. I was going to hang out with some friends and meet my editor for the first time. When did you come up with this plot?ĬASEY McQUISTON: It was a trip that I had taken to New York, literally right after I signed my deal for Red, White & Royal Blue.
So, you went from that to a love story whose center stage is a New York City train car - which, while a lot of things, glamorous is maybe not at the top of the list. KATIE TAMOLA: Red, White & Royal Blue was a cultural monolith, a queer love story involving a literal prince. Shondaland caught up with McQuiston to talk about the disparate world of the metropolitan subway, challenging herself as a writer, influential media from the early aughts, and what comes next. Relationships are hard, but, when you physically can’t get off a New York City train, they are infinitely harder. There’s just one catch: Jane is stuck in some kind of time warp, having been on the Q train since the 1970s. She feels quite lucky when she continues to run into Jane on her commute, and their mutual feelings grow deeper and deeper.
Jane is the quintessential subway crush, and August has their life planned together before she even reaches her stop. One day, August is awestruck when, while on the Q train on her way to class, she sees the most dazzling and mysterious human she’s ever laid eyes on. Although she tries to fly under the radar, her eccentric roommates love her from the moment they meet her, which August isn’t exactly used to. August is just trying to keep her head down and get by.
She’s pragmatic, guarded, and a 23-year-old recent transplant to Brooklyn. I think that all love stories should have some element of yearning to be compelling, but when it's a queer love story, I feel like if you don't have that element of yearning, it sometimes doesn't work.$16 at Bookshop Credit: St. Especially in romance, I feel like we always need more of them.īut in terms of longing, I think that so much of the queer experience is yearning. This is somebody who is, on the page, described as somebody worth longing for because I don't think that butch lesbians get their due. When I set out to write this book, one of my objectives was to write a book in which the love interest is a butch lesbian. That's a common theme in romance in general, but it's kind of turning it on its head to have it be in a woman-loving-woman (wlw) context. There are these really rich descriptions of Jane as someone to desire. In "One Last Stop," you give us so much of August longing for Jane before they're actually together. 'One Last Stop' has similar themes to 'Red, White, and Royal Blue,' but McQuiston shows her growth as an author in the book
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