Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney will tell the story of the making of his hit series in a book coming later this year, People magazine reports.
Little, Brown will publish I’ll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry Season 1 (The Annotated Scripts) in the fall. The press calls the book “an official and complete collection of annotated scripts for the biggest cultural sensation of the year, with all new exclusive behind-the-scenes content.”
Heated Rivalry, based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling Game Changers series of gay romance novels featuring hockey players, debuted last November and quickly became a massive hit. The show follows the relationship between athletes Shane Hollander, played by Hudson Williams, and Ilya Rozanov, played by Connor Storrie. The series has been renewed for a second season, which is scheduled to air in April 2027.
Tierney’s book takes its name from a song by the Canadian indie-rock band Wolf Parade that was featured in the series. The book, Little, Brown says, “takes readers behind the curtain, showing how Tierney, his producing partner Brendan Brady, and the entire Accent Aigu team drew on a deep reverence for Reid’s work, impeccable casting, clever sets and costume design, and thoughtful sex scene choreography to both rewrite the playbook for adapting romance novels to the screen and obliterate the long-held misconception that queer love stories have limited appeal.”
I’ll Believe in Anything is scheduled for publication on Oct. 13.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
