This ‘Young Sheldon’ star wrote a book on set and now you can read it

Every week during COVID as “Young Sheldon” filmed, Raegan Revord put their character Missy Cooper aside to instead become a journalist.

Revord, who uses they/them pronouns, sent weekly DIY e-newspaper “The Young Sheldon Weekly” to cast and crew via email blast. It featured interviews with costars about their pets or plans for the week. Revord grew up on this set – “Young Sheldon” debuted when they were 9 years old – and this felt like a way to connect while the crew was siloed for safety reasons.

Now that “Young Sheldon” is over, Revord is finding new ways to tell stories.

The 17-year-old is now a figurehead in young adult literary circles through their book club, Read with Raegan, and partnerships with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. Now, their debut novel, “Rules for Fake Girlfriends,” hits bookstores across the country.

How Raegan Revord wrote a novel on the set of ‘Young Sheldon’

“Rules for Fake Girlfriends” follows rom-com-obsessed Avery, who, at the last second, switches her enrollment in Columbia University to her late mother’s alma mater in England. As she embarks on her year abroad, Avery will also have to unravel a scavenger hunt her mother left for her. Charlie, a charming student, agrees to help if Avery pretends to be her girlfriend to make an ex jealous.

Aside from fake dating, the novel is full of beloved, albeit cheesy, rom-com tropes. But in this story, Revord’s in on the joke. Each chapter title is a ridiculously unrealistic scenario, like “The Heroine Moves to a New Place with No Interest in Romance… but Fate Has Other Plans” or “The Character Is Young and Broke but Has an Unrealistically Amazing Apartment.” (Revord FaceTimed their friends living in college dorms for fact-checking those small spaces and mold spots).

Revord has wanted to write a book since they were 5, they told USA TODAY. It’s no wonder they spent their “Young Sheldon” downtime writing short stories and columns for their castmates.

Still, writing a book while filming the last season of “Young Sheldon” proved to be a challenge.

“I would have my computer hidden on set, and then whenever they said ‘Cut,’ I would bring it out, write … as quick as I could, then stash it write before they said action,” Revord says. “That’s how I wrote probably half my book.”