Behind the Pages of The Odds of You: The Inspiration Behind Kate Dramis’ Debut Romance

The Odds of You is a book that, for all intents and purposes, snuck up on me. I had just finished The Curse of Sins, the second book in my Romantasy trilogy, and was on tour for The Curse of Saints, my debut.

The idea came to me on a plane ride to Comic Con (where, like our main character, Sage, I was mainlining shit airline coffee, but was not, unfortunately, flirting with a hottie across the aisle). What started as a fun writing exercise while avoiding my edits — what if an author on her way to Comic Con ran into an actor on the plane and didn’t know who he was? — became something all consuming.

By the time I landed in San Diego four hours later, I realized that this wasn’t just a scene I was writing… It was a whole book.

There are so many influences and inspirations that fueled The Odds of You. From my trip to the Isle of Skye with my best friend to my own fears and neuroses to Noah Kahan’s Stick Season.

But at its heart, The Odds of You was fueled by the desire to write something that made me, and hopefully others, feel as consumed as I had felt by my favorite book, which I’d finished just a few weeks before.

It had been an interesting few months. I was deep in drafting on deadline for the first time, and was also getting ready for my debut release, and had turned to contemporary romance as a way to escape the whirling in my head that came with being on deadline and about to release my first book into the world.

I was living out my dream as a full-time author, and I had never, ever been more anxious and scared.

Enter: Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. It had been sitting on my TBR (and bedside table) for far longer than I care to admit, and I picked it up one night when my brain wouldn’t turn off.

I then proceeded to inhale every single word. I laughed, I cried, I ached, and I longed to be part of the Super Six group chat.

There is something fundamentally life-changing about connecting with a character. Alex Claremont-Diaz gave me the words to describe my mind in a way I hadn’t been able to before; he also gave me the strength to come out and the bravery to continue to loudly be me.

While Sage certainly isn’t me, she is the first character that I’ve given so much of myself to: my neurodivergence, my bisexuality, and my burning desire to always reach the next level, often to my own detriment.

It’s my hope that when readers pick up The Odds of You, they lose themselves in the pages because they feel seen and understood. That they laugh, and cry, and maybe even put off some work because they want to keep living in the story.

My hope is that they feel even a fraction of what I’ve felt by the forces that inspired it: my favorite book; a stellar album; an impulsive trip to the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen….

And achieving my dreams.

The Odds Of You is published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 6 January 2026