It was immediately exciting, and the other themes that came through in the book fell out on to the page sort of accidentally, as I imagined what this experience would actually be like for Zoe.
Dreaming up awkward dates and cute moments was a lovely reprieve. I also wanted to lean into comfort and escape, because I started writing this book during the 2019/2020 Summer bushfires, and wrote into the start of the pandemic.
I knew I wanted to write a romance, as my first YA novel Please Don’t Hug Me was quite anti-romance, so I wanted to try something new. And then I set it in a media landscape because that is my background, as a former journalist. The idea of an autistic young woman realising she had missed the signs that people from her past had been romantically interested in her landed in my head ready to go. How did the world of dating occur to you as a way of exploring Zoe’s world and some heavy issues? We took five minutes to sit down with author Kay Kerr to talk dating, activism, and the power of rom-coms. Please Don’t Hug Me was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA), and was a Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) 2021 Notables book.Posted on 29 November, 2021 Social Queue is a funny and heart-warming autistic story about deciphering the confusing signals of attraction and navigating a path to love, following journalism intern Zoe Kelly’s dating life. Kay Kerr’s Please Don’t Hug Me depicts life on the cusp of adulthood-and on the autism spectrum-and the complexities of finding out and accepting who you are and what’s important to you. But now that she’s writing letters to him, some things are beginning to make sense. And she’s missing her brother, Rudy, who left almost a year ago. Her licence test went badly, which was also not her fault: she followed the instructor’s directions perfectly. She’s lost her job at Surf Zone after an incident that clearly was not her fault, and now she’s not on track to have saved enough money. Which one am I supposed to believe? Faces seem to be more truthful, but people always act as though their words are the only things that matter.’ĮRIN is looking forward to Schoolies, at least she thinks she is. ‘The most stressful interactions for me are ones like this, where the person’s face says one thing but their words say another.
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