Goodreads asked Aaron H. Aceves:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Aaron H. Aceves One day I sat down and wrote around 2,000 words from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old kid about how he felt about...brace yourself...masturbating. I didn't know if it was a short story of part of something larger, but he had a very clear voice, and so I decided I would just follow him where he took me. The next day I sat down and started writing again, and this kid started talking about all his crushes at school, one of whom was his Muslim best friend. Then this idea of writing a "She's Gotta Have It" for a bi teen really took shape.

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