--- description: Find out how Casey McQuiston is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. title: 2022 TIME100 Next: Casey McQuiston image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa1dfc013a77c982/698a35c3457a5239d8d66d74/time100-next-casey-mcquiston.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 28, 2022 # Casey McQuiston by Emma Straub  Maciek Jasik for TIME Maciek Jasik for TIMEMaciek Jasik for TIME When [Casey McQuiston’s second novel](https://time.com/6050860/casey-mcquiston-one-last-stop/ "undefined"), _One Last Stop,_ was published last year, a few of my booksellers at Books Are Magic decided to hold a midnight launch party. Several people on line were in costume—that is, they were wearing costumes that the characters wore, despite the fact that the book had not yet been released. This is the sort of devotion McQuiston inspires. Their three books—gay royal romance _Red, White and Royal Blue;_ queer New Adult romance _One Last Stop,_ which features an instantly classic sex scene aboard a Q subway train; and this year’s sweet YA romance–mystery [_I Kissed Shara Wheeler_](https://time.com/6148645/most-anticipated-ya-books/ "undefined")—are all deeply pleasurable, romantic, and very, very queer. The fact that we hosted a midnight launch—the sounds of which still bring to mind a certain fantasy series—seems to me a reclaiming of wild fandom, of passion for books and shared excitement, all of it laced through with absolute queer joy. Casey 4 ever. _Straub is an author and co-owner of Books Are Magic in Brooklyn_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213762/casey-mcquiston/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213762/casey-mcquiston/"},"headline":"2022 TIME100 Next: Casey McQuiston","datePublished":"2022-09-28T09:56:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:06:26.722Z","description":"Find out how Casey McQuiston is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership.","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213762/casey-mcquiston/","keywords":["TIME 100 Next"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa1dfc013a77c982/698a35c3457a5239d8d66d74/time100-next-casey-mcquiston.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa1dfc013a77c982/698a35c3457a5239d8d66d74/time100-next-casey-mcquiston.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2022/6213762/casey-mcquiston/","name":"2022 TIME100 Next: Casey McQuiston"}}]}] ```