Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet

One of Town & Country’s Best Ghost Books That Will Keep You Up All Night and A Must-Read Book of Winter 2025 • One of Book Riot’s 2024 Books to Add to Your TBR • A Nerd Daily and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Release • An Autostraddle and People Most Anticipated Release of December 2024 • A Glamour Best Book for Book Clubs 2024

“A haunting love story that is both sweet and weird in the best way … Allen’s character development only gets stronger with each book, and she’s able to make even the most outlandish plots feel compelling and real. Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston or TJ Klune.” —Booklist (starred review)

“Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet is at once delightfully bonkers and painfully poignant, an exploration of desire and the boxes we’re held in that will stay with me for a long time. One of the most entertaining and moving things I’ve ever read—I couldn’t put it down.” —Anita Kelly, author of Love & Other Disasters

“Eccentric, funny, and pleasantly peculiar … Allen offers readers an unlikely romance, sprinkled with lust, regret, humor, and even paranormal activity, and somehow it absolutely works. A wacky yet touching tale about love, truth, and acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Funny, gripping, and uniquely devastating, Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet serves as a culturally poignant and romantic reminder that truth is powerful, love is timeless, and life is a boundless story just waiting to be written.” —Emery Lee, award-winning author of Meet Cute Diary

“A bizarre and ultimately gratifying tale of an unlikely duo who find common ground … For those who share Allen’s fixation on celebrity culture, there’s plenty of fun to be had.” —Publishers Weekly

“You’ve never met a protagonist like Roland Rogers … a truly unique and fun novel.” —Glamour (A Best Book for Book Clubs 2024)

“Surprising, funny, and downright weird in the absolute best way, I don’t think I’ve ever read a book like this one. An unlikely romance for the ages that reminds us it’s never too late to form connections—and that we’re never alone.” —Camryn Garrett, NAACP Image Award Nominated–author of Friday I’m in Love

“Allen’s (Patricia Wants to Cuddle) unconventional novel about reputation, success, identity, and living authentically will appeal to readers looking for a unique take on a love story.” —Library Journal Review

“Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet is a wild romp through the graveyard of a writer’s dwindling career and a ghost’s hidden past. Only Samantha Allen could a write a book like this, one that is deeply moving, romantic, hilarious, and, at times, a little gross. Most of all, this book is FUN, so fun I couldn’t put it down. It made me want to come out all over again. It made me want to eat cheeseburgers in front of a lover. It made want to call everyone I admire. Readers will no doubt love this incredibly moving story that reminds us some secrets haunt us even after we’re dead.” —Emme Lund, author of The Boy With A Bird in His Chest

“The most unique, inventive, and heart-wrenching supernatural romance you’ve ever read.” —Book Riot

“A delightful story … Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet offers plenty of bubbly fun, but it asks complicated questions about identity and what we owe to the people who have kept our secrets. And the ending made me cry.” —Washington Post

“Samantha Allen has done it again. Charming, funny, and endlessly inventive, Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet is the most fun I’ve ever had reading about a ghost. It’s everything I want in a queer romance: witty, vulnerable, and horny as hell. I wish it was 1,000 pages longer just so I could spend more time with these delightful characters. Long live Roland Rogers.” —Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

“In this new novel about a ghostwriter who falls in love with a ghost, Allen shows a knack for setting up hooky plot premises that open up space to dream. And to wander, and observe, and, yes, meditate … It’s sharp, often witheringly funny stuff … At its best, Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet really is a series of powerful meditations on love, death, queerness, and ambition—not to mention Hollywood and Mormonism and other repressive systems. And all of it more or less smuggled into a sweet, clear Hallmark love story, if Hallmark love stories featured ghostly Mr. Darcys who haunt anal vibrators for their partner’s pleasure.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Delightfully original.” —People magazine

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.

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