Samantha Allen w/ Katie Lee Ellison, PUCK

Samantha Allen, author of Patricia Wants to Cuddle, Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet, and Real Queer America, returns to the store for her new book Puck. In this A Midsummer Night's Dream-inspired romcom, Puck is a reality show producer and agent of chaos with a talent for bringing people together...and tearing them apart. She will be joined by Katie Lee Ellison, writer and founder of Nonfiction for No Reason.

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Meet Puck: the nonbinary, thirty-year-old 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 (who lovesick Lena has always pined after), Mia’s news leaves her friend group reeling—and Puck’s mind whirling.

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. But as Puck comes up against a type-A maid of honor hell-bent on making this wedding happen, it becomes clear that they will have to deliver the greatest stunt of their career. If only they can take their eyes off the bridesmaid. After all, the course of true love never did run smooth…

Written with Samantha Allen’s signature charm, wit, and an irresistible dose of Shakespearian mischief, Puck is the ultimate romcom for our chaotic era, and a celebration of the friendships that carry us through it all.

Samantha Allen is the author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States and a GLAAD Award-winning journalist. Her writing has been published by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, CNN.com, and more.

Katie Lee Ellison is the founder, curator, and host of the Seattle-based international literary event series, Nonfiction for No Reason. You can find her monthly column of author interviews and book reviews in The Stranger, and essays in Shenandoah, The Seventh Wave, J Journal, and elsewhere. She’s a contributing editor at Moss, and her memoir-in-progress has been supported by Sewanee Writers Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a Hugo House fellowship, and Tin House/MWC Oregon Summer Workshop. Her newsletter, A Beautiful Fad, is the cheap and easy way into what's on her mind lately.