Whenever my friends hold impromptu spelling bees, I have to be given very simple words. I am regularly dragged on Twitter for very obvious typos. Hello please look at these eggs I bedazzled and then did a newborn photo shoot with. The point is showing that there is literally no world in which queer teens cannot belong, cannot be the hero of, cannot salvage.Ģ) In addition to writing, you also bedazzle eggs, paint clouds on your face, and draw incredible art. The worlds - the reveries - that they explore can be any genre, any story. I therefore wanted to build a fantasy with many worlds and write about a group of teens able to traverse all of them. Queer people are masters of adaptation, able to survive in any world due to our often-forced need to transform ourselves, depending on where we are, who we are with, and so on. Reverie is very much meant to solve that absence. What happened to people like me, in fantasy? In the distant future?
I knew I was gay at a very young age, and I couldn’t understand how books never included me. I started Reverie in high school, in response to popular Young Adult books like Twilight and The Hunger Games and Divergent - all of which were conspicuously free of queer people. Can you tell us how your story came to be? This wildly imaginative debut explores what happens when the secret worlds that people hide within themselves come to light.ġ) Reverie is about Kane, a young gay teen with rainbow magic, who navigates unimaginable worlds in order to recover his memories and save reality from a drag queen sorceress. And when a sinister force threatens to alter reality for good, they will have to do everything they can to stop it before it unravels everything they know.
But as he and the others are dragged into unimaginable worlds that materialize out of nowhere - the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with scandal and sorcery-Kane realizes that nothing in his life is an accident. And it’s not just Kane who’s different, the world feels off, reality itself seems different.Īs Kane pieces together clues, three almost-strangers claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what’s going on. He can’t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now. 3, 2019.Īll Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. His debut novel, published by Sourcebooks Fire, hit shelves on Dec. The interviews have been transcribed and lightly edited for length and clarity.)įor this latest installment of Author Umbrella, I interviewed Ryan La Sala, author of Reverie. ( Editor’s note: NonDoc’s Author Umbrella interviews up-and-coming writers, particularly authors of color, authors of disability and LGBTQ+ authors.
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