According to Plan

Christen Randall

Feb 2026 · Pushkin Press

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THE PLAN:

1. Do the best you can at school.

2. Work at Dollars City to save money.

3. Edit school magazine.

4. Go to University of Kentucky with Maddie.

Mal Flowers lives by The Plan. It's the only thing that keeps their ADHD brain from spiralling. But when the school magazine gets cancelled, The Plan starts falling apart.

Enter Emerson Pike: radiant, carefree and the total opposite of Mal's carefully controlled world. Her idea? Go rogue and launch an underground zine - unofficial, unapproved, and utterly terrifying.

With no other option, Mal agrees. But as MixxedMedia is born and parks begin to fly both on and off the page, can Mal learn that not everything in life has to go according to plan?

PRAISE FOR ACCORDING TO PLAN:

'Warm, witty, and wonderfully queer' Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys

'An absolute delight' Crystal Maldonado, author of Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

'Christen Randall proves to be one of the best queer storytellers of our time, bar none' Jonny Garza Villa, award-winning author of Canto Contigo

THE PLAN: 1. Do the best you can at school. 2. Work at Dollars City to save money. 3. Edit school magazine. 4. Go to University of Kentucky with Maddie. Mal Flowers lives by The Plan. It's the only thing that keeps their ADHD brain from spiralling. But when the school magazine gets cancelled,...

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About the author

Christen Randall (she/they) is a queer, fat, neurodiverse author of queer, fat, neurodiverse books. When they're not writing joyful stories for the next generation of geeky gay kids, you can find them working at their local library branch or at home planning all the D&D campaigns they'll run one day, they swear. Christen lives in Covington, Kentucky. You can find them on most social media @bycrandall. According to Plan is their second novel, The No-Girlfriend Rule is also available from Pushkin Children's.

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