{"id":35442,"date":"2026-01-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35442"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T19:08:56","slug":"wotr26-authorinterview-allie-samberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35442","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR26 #authorinterview &#8211; Allie Samberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35088\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=300%2C157\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=1024%2C536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/allie-samberts.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35443\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/allie-samberts.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/allie-samberts.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/allie-samberts.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/allie-samberts.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#WOTR26 Author Interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Hi! I&#8217;m Allie. I&#8217;m a romance writer, book lover, and high school English teacher. I was voted funniest teacher of the year for 2023 and 2025, and it is probably my highest honor to date. I enjoy spending quiet days with my husband, two kids, and our dog, especially in the fall. I also enjoy knitting, sewing, and running. We live and work in the Chicago suburbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you hear about this event?\u00a0 How many years have you attended?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">This will be my first year, and I&#8217;m so excited! Many people say such great things about this event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What genres do you write?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">I write mostly contemporary romance and romantic comedy, but I&#8217;m working on a witchy paranormal romance, too!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a book of yours you wish more people read?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Not a Strong Enough Word or Love Out Loud<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one fun fact about you?\u00a0 It can be anything like food allergy, fear of something, weird way you broke a bone&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">I am absolutely terrified of cicadas. I know they&#8217;re harmless! But they&#8217;re creepy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your social links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alliesambertswrites\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alliesambertswrites\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alliesamberts\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alliesamberts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100088651039907&amp;mibextid=LQQJ4d\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100088651039907&amp;mibextid=LQQJ4d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/740767444856613\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/740767444856613\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AllieSamberts\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AllieSamberts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@alliesambertswrites\">https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@alliesambertswrites <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your buy links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/alliesamberts\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/author\/alliesamberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#WOTR26 Author Interviews Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself. Hi! I&#8217;m Allie. I&#8217;m a romance writer, book lover, and high school English teacher. I was voted funniest teacher of the year for 2023 and 2025, and it is probably my highest honor to date. I enjoy spending quiet days with my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#WOTR26 #authorinterview &#8211; Allie Samberts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9dE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35444,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35442\/revisions\/35444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}