peerlessRachel Reid’s next novel has been postponed to 2027, the writer said on Tuesday.
Reid, L New York Times Best-selling author Hot competitionannounced earlier this year that she would be releasing her seventh book Game changers series. The book series serves as the source material for the hugely popular Crave-HBO Max show, Hot competition.
Reed explained in a video he posted on Instagram peerless It will need to be moved to June 2027 from its original release date of September 2026. The Canadian author has been sharing her gratitude over the past few months. “I can’t really put into words how any of this feels for the author,” Reid said in the video.
“My life has become very different in the last few months, and although everything is fine, it has also taken away my ability to have a good time writing,” she added. “There is nothing more important to me than… peerless Being the best book it can be.”
Reid has been open about his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis. “I think when good things happen, sometimes the universe offers you worse things to balance it out. For me, it was because my Parkinson’s symptoms got a little worse, and it made it physically difficult to write,” she said.
“I’m definitely a lot slower. That’s just something I need to learn how to navigate and kind of face instead of ignoring,” Reid added. The author told fans in the video that she hopes it won’t take too long. The comments under Reed’s post reassured the author that everyone was okay with waiting a little longer.
Reed reassured fans that she is excited about the book. “In the end, the book will be much better, and that’s the most important thing to me,” she said. “It will be better for the readers, and it will be better for the characters.” The author also teased some announcements that fans have been waiting for later this week that will hopefully “soften the blow.” peerless It is paid.
peerless It will be a sequel to Hot competition and The long gameboth of which focus on hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, two competitive professional players turned lovers (sorry, Shane).
Spoiler alert for any fans of the show just ahead, however peerless You will pick up after events Hot competitionsequel The long gamewhich finds Shane and Elijah, in a serious relationship, dealing with their relationship going public, their marriage and the news that Shane will be joining Elijah on his hometown team, the Ottawa Centurions.
“For the first time in their professional hockey careers, Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander have nothing to hide. For more than a decade, they kept their love a secret, but now they are out, married and even playing on the same team. The support is incredible. Most of the time,” the book’s official synopsis reads.
The synopsis continues: “They’ve gotten a lot of love from fans who are thrilled for them. But some people in the hockey world are still reeling from the revelation of their relationship, and the backlash — led by the popular hockey podcast Top shelf And the #TakeBackHockey movement – just got louder. Elijah and Shane were finally able to stand together in the light, the way they always wanted to. Now they face perhaps their biggest challenge yet.
Reed’s novels received a huge spike in popularity after their release Hot competitionthe series is produced by Crave, and is streaming on HBO Max in the United States Hot competition and The long game It became recently New York Times A bestseller, several years after it was first published. Game changersThe first book in the series appeared during the third episode of the series.
We crave renewal Hot competitionstarring Hudson Williams as Shane and Connor Story as Elijah, has been released for a second season, and HBO Max has confirmed that it will continue to stream the series. Tierney, who wrote and directed the entire first season of the series, confirmed that he would return to direct the series, but said… THR before Hot competitionConclusion He had been thinking about the possibility of “other writers coming to his aid” but he wasn’t sure yet.
