I also hate that horrible trend of killing LGBTQIA+ characters to advance a straight character’s narrative, because that’s so messed up. I’m not the biggest fan of tropes like the Gay Best Friend, where the gay character doesn’t have agency and just seems to exist to serve their straight friend. “It sure does! Believe it or not, I don’t hate love triangles! I’m a fan of them when they’re done well (#teamPeeta for life). With that in mind, what tropes and gender stereotypes do you dislike/hate the most? TLI pokes fun at major tropes and gender stereotypes in YA literature. I think if you mashed those two together you’d get pretty close to what I’m like. As for character I most relate too, I think I can relate to them all to some degree, but Caden and Juliet are in particular so much like me. “I think it’s about the voice! Caden’s just happened to be the voice that was in my head, demanding to have his story told. What made you decide to write the story from Caden’s POV? Is he the character whom you most relate to? (I would also have loved to read from Dyl’s and Juliet’s perspectives.) Not sure if that makes sense, but I hope it does!”Ģ. It’s hard to explain, but I really felt that people had lowered the bar on their expectations from me because I’m gay, and that made me so frustrated and upset and I kinda aimed those feelings into my writing and the end result was The Love Interest. I was feeling very tokenised and sort of shelved – like, because of my sexuality, everybody around me had this crystal clear idea of who I am and what I am capable of, which seemed to undercut the potential I felt I had. “But I think the thing that makes the book what it is are the feelings I was having at the time of writing. I’m super wary of those ‘it came to me in a dream’ type things, but the truth is I really did wake up one morning with this idea of a training academy for the dreamy love interests of YA fiction. “To answer your question, TLI was very heavily influenced by the feelings I was going through at the time of writing it. “What a great question to start with! Also, I must say I’m super happy to be doing this interview with you, I’m a fan. Who or what inspired you to write TLI? Is there a special story behind it? I hope that this interview will persuade you to read TLI when it comes out on May 16, 2017.ġ. I am still very happy that he granted my request to have a bookish partnership with him. He turned out to be a nerdy Feminist like me, so I dare say that we get along well. I am so thankful that I got the chance to have a correspondence with Cale even before I finished reading his book. I happily gave it 5 out of 5 stars, and you can know why I did so by reading my review. This month, I was fortunate enough to get an ARC of The Love Interestby debut author Cale Dietrich.
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