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Samantha Allen

Biography

Samantha Allen

Samantha Allen is the author of PUCK, PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE, the Washington State Book Award finalist ROLAND ROGERS ISN'T DEAD YET, and the Lambda Literary Award finalist REAL QUEER AMERICA: LGBT Stories from Red States, among other titles. She is a GLAAD Award-winning journalist and editor with bylines in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, CNN and more. She holds a Ph.D. from Emory University.

Samantha Allen

Books by Samantha Allen

by Samantha Allen - Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Romance

Puck is the nonbinary mastermind behind “Homewreckers,” a dating show that puts troubled couples through hell --- with a little help from their exes. Used to being the one pulling the strings, it shocks Puck when their life undergoes a plot twist of its own, and their college roommate, Mia, announces her engagement to her ex’s best friend, Damon. Having only recently broken up with longtime boyfriend Zander, and never having had much in common with Damon, Mia’s news leaves her friend group reeling. When they arrive for a week of wedding festivities at an upscale resort in the Appalachian forest, Puck immediately sees that Mia’s marriage will lead to misery and takes it upon themself to save their friends by rearranging the couples --- without anyone finding out.

by Samantha Allen - Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Paranormal Romance, Romance

Adam Gallagher has knocked on thousands of doors. An ex-Mormon and almost-famous memoirist, he is used to sharing his life story with strangers. But this day, this house, is different. For it belongs to none other than Roland Rogers: Hollywood Hunk and soon-to-be author. Roland has a story to tell, a decades-old secret to spill, and he’s decided that Adam is just the guy to help him do it. Except there’s a problem. Roland Rogers is dead. Not in the metaphysical realm --- if he focuses, he can summon enough energy to communicate via the kitchen speaker --- but certainly in the physical, and he needs Adam to pen his story before his body is found frozen beneath the avalanche of snow that squashed it. That means one month, a hundred thousand words, no breaks. It isn’t long before Roland’s idea of what his book should be clashes with Adam’s vision for what it could be.