In 2004 his first novel "Be More Chill" was published. A review for the "New York Times Book Review" said that "Be More Chill", which is about a high school student named Jeremy Heere who gets a supercomputer pill in his brain that makes him cool, "is so accurate that it should come with a warning." "Be More Chill" was later adapted into a musical in summer 2015 with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and premiered at New Jersey’s Two River Theatre. Three years later, an Off-Broadway production opened at the Signature Theater in New York, followed by a Broadway premiere the following February.