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Samantha Allen is the author of the horror comedy novel PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE (Zando, 2022) and the Lambda Literary Award finalist REAL QUEER AMERICA: LGBT STORIES FROM RED STATES (Little, Brown, 2019). Her other publications include LOVE & ESTROGEN (Amazon Original Stories, 2018) and M to WT(F) (Audible Originals, 2020).

She is a GLAAD Award-winning journalist with bylines in The New York Times, CNN, Rolling Stone, and more. She received her Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in 2015. ...more

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	Patricia Wants to Cuddle 3.47 avg rating — 24,401 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States 4.07 avg rating — 4,592 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet 3.69 avg rating — 1,229 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	M to (WT)F: Twenty-Six of the Funniest Moments from My Transgender Journey 4.08 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Puck 3.69 avg rating — 656 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic by Eliza Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Haley Swanson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brooke Hauser (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hi, friends! So excited to share that you can read the opening pages of "Patricia Wants to Cuddle exclusively at them.us, Conde Nast's digital LGBTQ+ magazine, right now!

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“Imagine a world so small that your ego can fill all of it.”
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“Social progress, I realize, happens not just through the sort of revolutionary actions that generate Oscar-baiting biopics but through the underestimated power of conversation—through small exchanges of generosity and goodwill, through questions asked in good faith, through love expressed with no preconditions or expectations of return. I have spent a week doing nothing but talk to people. But talking is far from nothing. Words are the literal stuff of change.”
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“And you understood what She meant to us. People once called us monsters and freaks, too, but I think we were beautiful freaks, weren’t we? Just like Her.”
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