Ask the Author: Emery Lee
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Emery Lee
Hi! Thank you! I'll take that as a very high compliment because I really, really don't haha. I think it was easy for me to empathize with a character dealing with coming out and navigating those kinds of social situations because I'm trans myself, but other than that, my experiences with coming out, figuring out my gender, and timelines, especially were very, very different from Devin's. I actually didn't even start questioning my gender at all until college, and I actually used Meet Cute Diary post-publication to come out to my family and a lot of my friends! In a way, writing trans teens can be really cathartic *because* I never had the chance to experience any of that stuff when I was the age most people think of as "normal" to do so.
Emery Lee
Hello! I've always been a huge fan of romcoms, but at the time I wrote MCD, I was really questioning my gender and realized we didn't have any romcoms with trans main characters. Really, every book I could find with a trans character was all about the struggle of identity and the pain of being trans, so I wanted to write something that had all the fun, frill, and thrill of the typical romcom where the main character just so happened to be trans.
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