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Hayley Kiyoko Is Writing A Gay Romance Novel
Girls Like Girls will expand the universe of Kiyoko's most famous song.
In an interview with Billboard, she recalled a studio session with her co-songwriters, who asked her: What’s something that scares you? “They were like, ‘All right, if you felt fearless and weren’t scared, what would you say?’” she said. “And that’s where ‘Girls Like Girls’ came from.”
Kiyoko took to Twitter to announce her first novel. “Building our second story, ripping all your floors out. I’m very honored to announce Girls Like Girls the novel coming next Summer,” she wrote.
“Ever since I released the music video for ‘Girls Like Girls’ [in 2015], it has been a dream of mine to tell the whole story of Coley and Sonya,” Kiyoko says in a statement. “I am so excited to explore these characters further in a novel – to really get inside their heads, and their hearts, and to take readers on their quest for love.”
Girls Like Girls will be published in May 2023 by Wednesday Books, the young adult imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group . In the meantime, you can pre-order the novel here.