From Publishers Marketplace: β€œTim Manley's MY OWN KIND OF PERSON, a queer coming-of-age debut about a teenage stand-up comic whose shot at a career-making contest is complicated by his spiraling mental health and a growing connection with a boy who sees through his act, pitched for fans of ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE and John Green, to Lauri Hornik at Rocky Pond Books, in a pre-empt, for publication in fall 2026, by Melanie Figueroa at Root Literary (world).”