Are you Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah? Even if you didn’t watch The Summer I Turned Pretty, the smash Prime Video series that ended its third season last September, you couldn’t escape the intense love triangle formed by the tousle-headed Fisher brothers, played by actors Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno, and impulsive protagonist Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung). Many of the 70 million viewers who watched that final season had outsize feelings about which brother Belly should end up with, occasionally taking the actors to task online. “The show isn’t real but the people playing the characters are,” Prime Video had to remind fans on social media. Even Jenny Han, who wrote the original YA novel and then became showrunner and executive producer of the TV adaptation, was asked to take sides. “I’m Team Belly,” she told Gayle King and the co-hosts of CBS Mornings when she appeared on the show last year. “Whatever she wants, she should have.”

These days, the whole world seems to have gone unapologetically Team Jenny. People can’t consume Han’s stories fast enough, be they novels, audiobooks (Tung and co-stars narrate), TV shows (Season 3 of her Netflix show, XO, Kitty, dropped in April), or movies (she’s directing a feature film finale to TSITP). This month, she adds another format to her arsenal: graphic novels. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: The Graphic Novel (Simon & Schuster, May 5) is adapted from Han’s 2014 bestseller by Barbara Perez Marquez with illustrations by Akimaro and Li Lu; our review calls it a “heartwarming, swoonworthy adaptation that’s certain to delight new and returning fans alike.” As Han told Kirkus contributor Kerry Winfrey in the cover story for our May 1 issue, “It’s still the same story, but I think about what makes each medium unique and why people enjoy these different media. I want everyone to feel served.”

Han’s observation gets to the heart of our contemporary media environment, where story comes first and the delivery platform varies depending upon the audience. Marvel Comics may be the first creative franchise to have its own “universe,” but Han isn’t so far behind, spinning out themes and variations across various media for fans who are just as invested. And, refreshingly for a woman, she maintains a degree of control, creating film and TV content for Amazon through her production company, Jenny Kissed Me. Make room, Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon, there’s a new female media mogul in town.

She’s also broken ground as an Asian American creator; as she explained to Gayle King in that CBS Mornings interview, the protagonist of The Summer I Turned Pretty was not initially written as a character of Asian descent (publishers were discouraging), and the original 2009 cover depicted an all-white trio. But Han was able to parlay the success of TSITP to “write my own ticket,” as she puts it, and when she released To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, she gave Lara Jean Covey a Korean mom and put an Asian model on the cover; the character is portrayed by Lana Condor (an actor born in Vietnam and raised in the U.S.) in the 2018 Netflix film adaptation and its sequels. That “ticket” sure is taking the author places, and Team Jenny is happily along for the ride.

Tom Beer is the editor-in-chief.