Your writing works well to balance the often-serious issues you're writing about with humor and relatability. And I was on the Death, Sex, & Money podcast, and the New York magazine Sex Lives podcast, and people really responded to those, and that sort of made me feel like, 'Okay there's more to say here.' when I came out in a Tumblr post, I got really good feedback. It's not that I have this massive following, but there were enough people that had reached out after buying the first book that I felt I needed to address it. They were so vulnerable and open in their emails to me, so I felt like I opened this channel, and I didn't want to close it off or sort of be misleading. I didn't know to what extent there would be a project about it, but I knew that I wanted to be open with the internet and with the people that reached out to me and connected with me after my first book. I came out in the summer of 2015, but I didn't know right away that I would be writing a book about it. Harry Styles, which we are very much here for.īelow, we talk with Heaney about her memoir, being 'likable' in her writing, and, of course, Styles.Īfter Never Have I Ever came out in 2014, did you know you would be writing another? When did you get the sense that Would You Rather ? was something you wanted to write?

There's also quite a bit of love shown to one Mr. It's this realization of her sexual identity which is the basis for Heaney's second memoir, Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out, which is a cogent, funny, and reflective look at what it was like for her to come out as an adult and then enter into her first serious relationship. When Katie Heaney published her first memoir, Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date, which centered around her futile search for love and the perfect man in her mid-20s, she had no idea that a year after publishing it, she would find it-only with a woman, instead.

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