In-Store: Samantha Allen: Roland Rogers Isn't Dead w/ Sarah Burke

Thu Dec 05 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

122 Montague Street,Brooklyn,11201,US | New York

Books Are Magic
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In-Store: Samantha Allen: Roland Rogers Isn't Dead w\/ Sarah Burke
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“It’s everything I want in a queer romance: witty, vulnerable, and horny as hell.” —Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Event guidelines:
- All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.
- Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
- Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
- A signing will follow the talk.
- Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
- The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/2aoH7mQg-p8
- As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.
If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].

In this “unlikely romance for the ages” (Camryn Garrett), a ghostwriter is handed the gig of a lifetime, except there’s a catch: the client, a closeted A-list actor finally ready to come out in his memoir, is an actual ghost—and the sparks flying between the men are becoming a little too real . . .
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.
Ghostwriting is hard enough, let alone when you’re dealing with a real ghost, and so it isn’t long before Roland’s idea of what his book should be clashes with Adam’s vision for what it could be.But the clock is ticking, the ice melting. And as more truths are told, both men soon discover that this experience is less of a coming out, and more of a coming home . . .
The sophomore novel from the beloved author of Patricia Wants to Cuddle, Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet is a witty and electric new rom-com for fans of Ashley Poston and Casey McQuiston .

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. She lives with her wife in Seattle.

Sarah Burke is the Editor-in-Chief of Them . Burke joined them in 2021 from VICE where she served as an editor since 2017. There, as special projects editor, Burke helped develop multimedia collaboration across departments and lead multi-format projects including: The Gender Spectrum Collection, an award-winning stock photo library featuring trans and nonbinary models; Queerly Beloved , an ASME-nominated podcast telling remarkable stories of chosen family; and Transnational , a Peabody and GLAAD award-winning docuseries about transgender rights around the world. She is a queer, mixed Pilipinx and was born and raised on O’ahu. She currently lives in Bed-Stuy with her partner and her cat, Miso.
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