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Amanda Pennington is an indie author who lives in Southern Indiana with her husband and daughter in their fixer-upper house. She spends her days working as an editor and her nights writing quirky, closed-door romantic comedies. When she’s not writing feel-good novels, Amanda loves traveling, running, and reading anything within reach.

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	Book Smart (Work For It, #3) 3.62 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 2022 — 4 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
	Smart Move (Work for It #7) 3.97 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2023	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
	Gardens & Grudges (The Granny Hobbies Club #1) 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2026 — 2 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
	Smartypants Romance 2023 Sampler (Smartypants Romance Samplers Book 5) by Stacy Travis (Goodreads Author), Talia Hunter (Goodreads Author), Allie Winters (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	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
	Smart Move: Work for It, Book 7 by Amanda Pennington (Goodreads Author), Savannah Gilmore (Narrator), Edwin Andrews (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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What Actually Connects My Books

I write in two pretty different worlds - the college-town found family of Book Smart and Smart Move, and the small-town cat-feud chaos of Gardens & Grudges - and I finally sat down to figure out what actually connects them underneath all the surface differences. Three things, it turns out.

The first is banter as the real love language. My characters almost never say the sincere thing directly. Just Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 10, 2026 18:48 • Tags: closed-door-rom-coms, indie-romance, midwest-romance, rom-com-books

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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SuperCreativity: Accelerating Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (SuperCreativity Book Series)

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“Ivy plopped a worn-looking fedora on top of his head. “I figured you wouldn’t care about dressing up. So I came prepared. You actually look good, Cam.”
I forced myself to refocus. “Very eighties Johnny Depp,” I agreed.
He blinked his gaze away from me and straightened the hat. “I’d rather be Jack Sparrow Johnny Depp, but I didn’t dress for that either.”
“It wouldn’t fit eighties night,” Ivy said.
He scoffed. “Who says it’s 1980s and not 1780s?”
― Amanda Pennington

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“Was I feeling desperate? My inner feminist cried a valiant “Never!” My inner fan of Masterpiece romances sobbed into an embroidered pillow.”
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