But because it’s such an over-the-top party, I wanted it to feel fleshed out and believable to readers. May The Best Man Win is my first contemporary novel, and I was really inspired by the Homecoming festivities at my own high school. Yes! I actually started as an SFF writer. Can you tell us how you built out Jeremy and Lukas’s world? May the Best Man Win is a contemporary, but world-building is just as important in this setting as it would be in SFF. To save Homecoming, they’ll have to face the hurt they’re both hiding-and the lingering butterflies they can’t deny. When both boys take their rivalry too far, the dance is on the verge of being canceled.

But when Jeremy threatens to break his heart and steal his crown, Lukas kick starts a plot to sabotage Jeremy’s campaign. Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother’s funeral and the loss long-term girlfriend-who turned out to be a boy. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdate school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise-and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King? Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Today we’re pleased to welcome ZR Ellor to the WNDB blog to discuss his YA novel May the Best Man Win, out May 18, 2021!Ī trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last summer in ZR Ellor’s contemporary YA debut.

May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor