It shouldn't be a surprise to me, but the YA publishing industry has done a really good job of improving my book's love plot

When I was writing this book, I knew it had to have a love story in it, because I knew that its main character, Reshma, was obsessed with being the best, and part of being the best in high school is being able to elicit romantic interest from the opposite sex. But I, like my protagonist, don't have that much romantic experience. And, furthermore, I'm no…