The cover for the Will Grayson, Will Grayson spinoff Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story has been released, and author David Levithan has shared some new comments about the project.

MTV, who unveiled the cover Friday, describes the book as a “full-on musical, complete with stage direction and lots of big, jazz-handy song-and-dance numbers.”

The original book Will Grayson, Will Grayson was co-written by Levithan and John Green and published in 2010. Tiny Cooper, Hold Me Closer’s protagonist, was one of the book’s supporting characters and a friend of Will Grayson.

The Hold Me Closer cover looks like a script for a musical after it spent a couple weeks backstage at a theater during rehearsals:

Said Levithan to MTV about the project, “I don’t think this is something that John [Green] or I would have ever dreamed of happening when we started writing Will Grayson, Will Grayson – but from the moment he appeared in John’s first chapter, Tiny pretty much stole the book. So attention must be paid! Truly, it’s been incredible to see readers’ reactions to Tiny over the years – so it seemed the right time to put him in the spotlight. Now I just hope musically-inclined people will post some tunes to go along with my lyrics. I am a huge musical fan . . . but have proven completely unable to carry a tune.”

While Hold Me Closer is a musical, you won’t find a compact disc attached to the book with recordings of the songs. However, “I trust that there are many, many Tiny Coopers out there. And if they’re truly like Tiny Cooper, I am sure they will use YouTube to find their way to me,” Leviathan said.

Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story will hit book store shelves March 17, 2015. It’s available for pre-order now.