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Kristen Roupenian, who wrote the buzzy story, has sold her debut collection of short stories, You Know You Want This, in the UK for "a high five-figure sum." According to the Guardian, the collection is also the subject of a frenzied auction in the United States, which has hit the $1 million mark.

Roupenian's depiction of a courtship via texts, the awkward subsequent IRL interactions, and a decidedly ambivalent sexual encounter seized attention online; many readers related to the young female protagonist's experience.