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To the cheers and applause of thousands of BookCon attendees, Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid and director-screenwriter Jacob Tierney walked on to the main event stage at New York's Jacob Javits Convention Center. The two Canadians have been international celebrities for just a few months, and still find themselves wondering if all the noise is for someone else. We dont really get to experience this kind of energy and fandom in person very often, Tierney told The Associated Press just after their joint appearance, a highlight of the weekend gathering of (mostly) young book fans. Its been a bit more of an amorphous online thing.Since the first episode of Heated Rivalry dropped last November, Tierney's adaptation of Reid's Game Changer series featuring star-crossed hockey greats Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov has become a phenomenon that boosted the sport's popularity, made Reid a leader of the thriving genre of sports romance fiction and made Olympic torchbearers out of lead actors Hudson Williams (Shane) and Connor Storrie (Ilya). Tierney expects to begin filming the second season this summer, based in part on the second of Reid's novels about Shane and Ilya, The Long Game. The author, meanwhile, is working on a third Shane and Ilya book, Unrivaled. Both are scheduled for 2027 releases.Heated Rivalry fans know well the story of how the HBO Max show was born, and of Reid's jarring swing from despair to exhilaration. In August 2023, she learned that she had early onset Parkinson's disease. Days later, she received an Instagram message from a man she had never met, but would soon change her life in a very different way: Tierney.The 46-year-old Tierney is a Montreal native, former child star and award-winning filmmaker whose credits include the TV series Letterkenny. In October, Little, Brown and Company will release a collection of Tierney's annotated scripts, I'll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1. Reid, 44, is a longtime hockey fan. Born Rachel Goguen in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she chose her pen name for the practical reason that it's easier to pronounce and remember. She's been open about the impact of fame and her health, posting an Instagram announcement in February that she was pushing back the release date of Unrivaled from this fall to next summer. Onstage, she acknowledged it had been tricky to write since the series took off.I'm in a place where the whole world seems to care about what happens next to these characters, she said. I'm still determined to stick to what I've always done when I was writing, just kind of pretend I'm writing for me and I hope other people like it.During their AP interview, Reid and Tierney spoke of the joy of sex on the page and screen and how Shane and Ilya just won't leave them alone. The conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.AP: Writers talk about writing the books they want to read, and filmmakers making the movies they want to see. With these books, it comes out of that?REID: I really like a forbidden romance. I really like the rivals-to-lovers element. I just also like a queer love story with a happy ending. And I really like hockey, so I think theres just a lot of elements in it that are just very much what I personally would like. I think if this show had come out and had nothing to do with me, I would be obsessed with it still.TIERNEY: I did not grow up with stories like this. We dont as gay men, as queer people. We do not get to have happy endings in media very often. I would definitely have watched it (even if he didn't direct it), thats for sure. Im sure I would have had notes. I'm a little picky.AP: At what point for either of you did you realize that you had something big here?TIERNEY: It was a kind of a series of increasingly surreal and overwhelming moments. And by the time the sixth episode aired, it really did feel like we were kind of at the center of a strange maelstrom. But I also was like, Am I making this up? Is this actually happening?REID: I did a bookstore event the day after the trailer came out. They showed the trailer at the event, and everybody in the audience knew every word of the trailer and was saying it along with the trailer. So that was when I was like, OK, this is going to be nuts.AP: Writers and filmmakers have talked about the difficulty of writing or filming sex scenes. Was that a challenge for either of you?REID: Honestly, I love writing them and Ive never found that to be the difficult part. I think it might be the easiest part for me. I actually really enjoy it. Not to praise myself too much, but I think maybe thats why people like the scenes. They werent hard for me. Its not a scary thing. Its not the part that I have to close my eyes and write or anything. It's my favorite part.TIERNEY: Sex is a language in this show, sex is a way that we watch this couple evolve over the course of a fairly long amount of time in terms of the story, eight years. And so the sex is different every time, a way of watching them evolve both separately and together. I think sex reveals a lot about yourself that you dont even intend to reveal. And I find that quite fascinating as a storyteller.AP: How real are Ilya and Shane for you? Do they live on in your heads? REID: Yeah. Thats why I keep writing books about them, because they just keep talking. With other characters, Ive written the books and theyve left. But these guys just stick around.AP: What is it about them that makes it that way? REID: They're fun to write. I love it.AP: You've talked about your struggles with getting the next book done. Any updates on that? TIERNEY: It's a coloring book now.REID: Its 20 pages.TIERNEY: Dont tell the truth.REID: The thing that hasnt changed is how much fun they are to write. I find their voices very easy to put on the page. More than any other characters Ive created, they arrived fully formed. They kind of just appeared one day.AP: Were they based on anybody, at least loosely, who you know?REID: Theres a lot of myself in Ilya, for sure. Theres a lot of, kind of hockey player archetypes the flashy, cocky European superstar, thats definitely a type. The uptight, very serious good boy-captain. And theres been plenty of NHL players from decades of hockey. And Ive been a fan for decades. And obviously there have been some really great rivalries. And were getting probably to the end of the (Sidney) Crosby-(Alex) Ovechkin rivalry right now. But that rivalry at its peak was so fun.AP: What do you see of yourself in Ilya?REID: A sense of humor, mostly. It's a little bit mean. I also kind of like to use humor to cover up emotions, you know, things like that. I think I also notice things about people a bit, but maybe stay quiet about it.AP: I've heard a lot of writers talk about writing a book that gets made into a film. And the actors are just so good that when the writer comes back to writing about those characters, theyre seeing those actors in their head. Is it going that way for you?REID: I told Jacob I wish I had never met them. (Laughing) It is challenge writing without thinking about somebody having to actually say or do what Im writing, for sure. Im trying to just block that out. I just need to pretend it definitely will never happen, because I think thats the only way I can do it.AP: And you still hope to have the next book out at some point next year?RR: Yeah. That book will come out June 1. Hell or high water, it's coming out.

To the cheers and applause of thousands of BookCon attendees, Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid and director-screenwriter Jacob Tierney walked on to the main event stage at New York's Jacob Javits Convention Center. The two Canadians have been international celebrities for just a few months, and still find themselves wondering if all the noise is for someone else. We dont really get to experience this kind of energy and fandom in person very often, Tierney told The Associated Press just after their joint appearance, a highlight of the weekend gathering of (mostly) young book fans. Its been a bit more of an amorphous online thing.Since the first episode of Heated Rivalry dropped last November, Tierney's adaptation of Reid's Game Changer series featuring star-crossed hockey greats Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov has become a phenomenon that boosted the sport's popularity, made Reid a leader of the thriving genre of sports romance fiction and made Olympic torchbearers out of lead actors Hudson Williams (Shane) and Connor Storrie (Ilya). Tierney expects to begin filming the second season this summer, based in part on the second of Reid's novels about Shane and Ilya, The Long Game. The author, meanwhile, is working on a third Shane and Ilya book, Unrivaled. Both are scheduled for 2027 releases.Heated Rivalry fans know well the story of how the HBO Max show was born, and of Reid's jarring swing from despair to exhilaration. In August 2023, she learned that she had early onset Parkinson's disease. Days later, she received an Instagram message from a man she had never met, but would soon change her life in a very different way: Tierney.The 46-year-old Tierney is a Montreal native, former child star and award-winning filmmaker whose credits include the TV series Letterkenny. In October, Little, Brown and Company will release a collection of Tierney's annotated scripts, I'll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1. Reid, 44, is a longtime hockey fan. Born Rachel Goguen in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she chose her pen name for the practical reason that it's easier to pronounce and remember. She's been open about the impact of fame and her health, posting an Instagram announcement in February that she was pushing back the release date of Unrivaled from this fall to next summer. Onstage, she acknowledged it had been tricky to write since the series took off.I'm in a place where the whole world seems to care about what happens next to these characters, she said. I'm still determined to stick to what I've always done when I was writing, just kind of pretend I'm writing for me and I hope other people like it.During their AP interview, Reid and Tierney spoke of the joy of sex on the page and screen and how Shane and Ilya just won't leave them alone. The conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.AP: Writers talk about writing the books they want to read, and filmmakers making the movies they want to see. With these books, it comes out of that?REID: I really like a forbidden romance. I really like the rivals-to-lovers element. I just also like a queer love story with a happy ending. And I really like hockey, so I think theres just a lot of elements in it that are just very much what I personally would like. I think if this show had come out and had nothing to do with me, I would be obsessed with it still.TIERNEY: I did not grow up with stories like this. We dont as gay men, as queer people. We do not get to have happy endings in media very often. I would definitely have watched it (even if he didn't direct it), thats for sure. Im sure I would have had notes. I'm a little picky.AP: At what point for either of you did you realize that you had something big here?TIERNEY: It was a kind of a series of increasingly surreal and overwhelming moments. And by the time the sixth episode aired, it really did feel like we were kind of at the center of a strange maelstrom. But I also was like, Am I making this up? Is this actually happening?REID: I did a bookstore event the day after the trailer came out. They showed the trailer at the event, and everybody in the audience knew every word of the trailer and was saying it along with the trailer. So that was when I was like, OK, this is going to be nuts.AP: Writers and filmmakers have talked about the difficulty of writing or filming sex scenes. Was that a challenge for either of you?REID: Honestly, I love writing them and Ive never found that to be the difficult part. I think it might be the easiest part for me. I actually really enjoy it. Not to praise myself too much, but I think maybe thats why people like the scenes. They werent hard for me. Its not a scary thing. Its not the part that I have to close my eyes and write or anything. It's my favorite part.TIERNEY: Sex is a language in this show, sex is a way that we watch this couple evolve over the course of a fairly long amount of time in terms of the story, eight years. And so the sex is different every time, a way of watching them evolve both separately and together. I think sex reveals a lot about yourself that you dont even intend to reveal. And I find that quite fascinating as a storyteller.AP: How real are Ilya and Shane for you? Do they live on in your heads? REID: Yeah. Thats why I keep writing books about them, because they just keep talking. With other characters, Ive written the books and theyve left. But these guys just stick around.AP: What is it about them that makes it that way? REID: They're fun to write. I love it.AP: You've talked about your struggles with getting the next book done. Any updates on that? TIERNEY: It's a coloring book now.REID: Its 20 pages.TIERNEY: Dont tell the truth.REID: The thing that hasnt changed is how much fun they are to write. I find their voices very easy to put on the page. More than any other characters Ive created, they arrived fully formed. They kind of just appeared one day.AP: Were they based on anybody, at least loosely, who you know?REID: Theres a lot of myself in Ilya, for sure. Theres a lot of, kind of hockey player archetypes the flashy, cocky European superstar, thats definitely a type. The uptight, very serious good boy-captain. And theres been plenty of NHL players from decades of hockey. And Ive been a fan for decades. And obviously there have been some really great rivalries. And were getting probably to the end of the (Sidney) Crosby-(Alex) Ovechkin rivalry right now. But that rivalry at its peak was so fun.AP: What do you see of yourself in Ilya?REID: A sense of humor, mostly. It's a little bit mean. I also kind of like to use humor to cover up emotions, you know, things like that. I think I also notice things about people a bit, but maybe stay quiet about it.AP: I've heard a lot of writers talk about writing a book that gets made into a film. And the actors are just so good that when the writer comes back to writing about those characters, theyre seeing those actors in their head. Is it going that way for you?REID: I told Jacob I wish I had never met them. (Laughing) It is challenge writing without thinking about somebody having to actually say or do what Im writing, for sure. Im trying to just block that out. I just need to pretend it definitely will never happen, because I think thats the only way I can do it.AP: And you still hope to have the next book out at some point next year?RR: Yeah. That book will come out June 1. Hell or high water, it's coming out.

Gary Wilson has opened up about his battle with the yips following his first-round exit from the World Snooker Championship, describing himself as "completely lost" in his career.The 40-year-old from the North East suffered a 10-5 defeat to Judd Trump on Tuesday evening at the Crucible, a match that included two remarkable flukes going against him.In a remarkably frank interview after the loss, Wilson admitted he constantly arrives at tournaments "feeling like an embarrassment" despite continuing to earn a living on the professional circuit.The three-time ranking event winner, who reached the World Championship semi-finals seven years ago, insisted his struggles are purely technical rather than mental, and called out television commentators for failing to recognise the true nature of his difficulties.TRENDINGStoriesVideosYour SaySpeaking to the BBC after his defeat, Wilson delivered an extraordinarily candid assessment of his game, stating: "Deep down, I was cueing awful as usual. It's just constant disappointment. I am and always have been since the age of 13 a better player than this."The player known as the Tyneside Terror described his condition as worsening, saying: "The yips are getting worse. I'm just riding through it."Wilson expressed frustration that spectators fail to notice his technical problems, explaining: "People are watching and going, 'you're playing good'. I'm missing all the really bad shots and all the really snatchy ones."He added: "I'm just masking the problems. It's just debilitating. I just wish I could have a game like I used to have."Wilson reserved particular criticism for television pundits who he believes resort to clichd explanations for his poor performances."It's not composure. I get that nonsense as well off commentators and stuff," he said. "It's honestly not composure. It's a little bit of heart and a little bit of an embarrassment."LATEST SPORTS NEWS:Gary Neville's sister reacts with horror after fan abuses Man United legend in the streetLIV Golf row erupts as players slam controversial rumours about Bryson DeChambeauChelsea star on 180,000-a-week fronts up to angry supporters after Brighton nightmareThe former taxi driver accused analysts of taking the easy route rather than addressing his genuine struggles, adding: "There's a bit of laziness from pundits and commentators as well at times, who think it's the usual cliche composure, negative thoughts, shot selection and all that nonsense."He urged those covering the sport to be more direct: "Come on, speak about the real issues. Gary is struggling with these shots. I am struggling out there. My confidence is on the floor."Despite his current difficulties, Wilson has enjoyed considerable success during his career, claiming three ranking titles and banking 286,700 in prize money over the past two seasons.His finest moment at the Crucible came when he progressed to the last four of the World Championship in 2019.Yet the 40-year-old admitted he feels trapped in a cycle of decline, telling reporters: "I just can't physically even cue the ball anymore. I don't know if there is any answer to get back to where I was."Wilson revealed he has begun seeking outside help, though he maintains his issues are not psychological in nature."I'm even starting to speak to somebody," he said. "It's not a sort of mental thing for me."My temperament isn't bad, honestly, when I'm feeling like I can actually just cue the ball in a straight line."Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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