Bob the Drag Queen Is A New York Times Bestseller, Baby: ‘Sobbing’

A huge conDRAGulations to Bob The Drag Queen, who can now add New York Times bestseller to their resume for her new novel Harriet Tubman: Live In Concert.

via: Pink News

Winning RuPaul’s Drag Race wasn’t enough. Hosting the hugely succesful Sibling Rivalry podcast, with bestie and fellow champ Monét X Change wasn’t enough. Murdering some Housewives on The Traitors wasn’t enough. Even touring with Madonna – yeah, the Madonna – wasn’t enough. Because now Bob the Drag Queen is a New York Times Bestselling author, too.

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert follows the legendary abolitionist and anti-slavery activist after she comes back to life in the 21st Century and enlists the help of several familiar faces to continue her work via a hip hop album – and at the time of publishing, it’s sitting pretty among the prestigious list of bestsellers from the New York Times.

Taking to Twitter (with the new handle “New York Times Bestselling Author”), Bob thanked her fans and readers, saying she was “literally sobbing” at the news.

“It took 5 long years to make it here,” Bob wrote. “When I started this journey I didn’t even have this goal in mind. I just wanted to write the kind of book that I would want to read. I’ve always wanted to create the kind of art that I would want to consume and I hoped that there would be people who think like me.”

Bob continued, “Thank you to everyone who got the book and everyone who posted about it. Thank you to everybody on the Sibling Rivalry Patreon for your early support and feedback,” before thanking her late mother, and dedicating the novel to her.

Bob the Drag Queen also posted several glowing reviews for the novel from the likes of Queer Eye‘s Karamo Brown, legendary TV personality Gayle King and even Whoopi Goldberg.

“Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert is magnificent!” wrote Goldberg. “I want to send to the folks who do the Nobel Prize for literature. I don’t know them, but I want them to read this!”

The novel was also termed “An emotional exploration of religion, external and internalized homophobia, the pressure of progressing black liberation, and the importance of revisiting the past,” by the New York Magasine.

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen is available now.