Author: Allie Samberts

Allie Samberts is a pen name. I'm also a teacher, and I don't want my students finding my writing. I'm also a reader, runner, and crafter. I live in the Chicago suburbs with my husband, two kids, and very loud beagle. I write romance novels, and my debut novel will be released in the spring of 2023! I'm so excited for you to meet these lovebirds, Mac and Daniel. They've won my heart, and I hope they win yours too!

How I got the perfect book cover

I love the cover of Common Grounds. It’s perfect. It encapsulates the city background—even though Baker’s Grove feels more like a small town in that way of midsized Midwestern cities—as well as Emery and Trevor in a passionate embrace on the front. The colors evoke coffee and dusk and romance. The characters are perfectly representative of the couple in the book, down to Emery’s red heels and blue-black hair, and Trevor’s yellow slouchy hat and cuffed chinos.

I’ve never been happier with a cover, honestly.

by Allie Samberts

Indie Romance Feature Friday: Kelsey Painter

Kelsey and I connected because we both read ARCs of each other’s debuts, and they released at about the same time last year! I feel so fortunate to have connected with Kelsey as a colleague and a friend, and I’m so excited to feature her today because she has a new book coming out! So, now, she has THREE books out, and they’re all awesome. I’ll let her tell you all about it.

by Allie Samberts

I’m starting to understand the tortured writer stereotype

Is it the constant mainlining of caffeine that makes writers tortured? Maybe. When I picture a tortured writer, I envision someone bent over a typewriter grabbing at their hair, a cigarette dangling between the first two fingers on their right hand and three or four half-finished and now-cold cups of coffee littered around their desk. Notes are, of course, strewn everywhere. The room is probably dark, too. It’s hard to be tortured in broad daylight.

by Allie Samberts
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