We're swooning over Lynn Painter's novels...plus a book giveaway

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We've been hearing a lot of good buzz about Lynn Painter and her rom-coms, so we're thrilled to have her visiting us today. Her latest novel, Accidentally Amy, is now available. Allyson says it is "absolutely enchanting" over at her Bookstagram. Thanks to Berkley, we have one copy for a lucky reader!

Lynn Painter is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies and Mr. Wrong Number, as well as the co-creator of five obnoxious children who populate the great state of Nebraska. When she isn't reading or writing, she can be found binge-watching rom-coms and obsessing over Spotify playlists.

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Synopsis:
Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she’s running late for her first day at her dream job and the barista yells for “Amy” three times with no answer, she does the unthinkable.

Izzy takes that PSL.
 
It’s the exact drink she ordered and paid for, only way further ahead in the queue—and she’ll take whatever bad karma is coming for her; she’s desperate and very late. But when she turns around and runs directly into the most attractive man she’s ever seen, spilling the drink all over his made-for-GQ shirt and tie, she ends up having the ultimate meet-cute. Karma who? Sparks fly and things feel beyond promising, until he says to her: “See you tomorrow, Amy.”
 
Izzy reasons she can just straighten things out the next day, no biggie. Only when she gets to her new office and meets the VP of her department, it is none other than Blake Phillips—the hottie from Starbucks. And the man might’ve been charming to “Amy,” but he is an arrogant grump to Izzy, an arrogant grump who does not find her explanation funny at all. But day by day, an attraction simmers between them and they’ll have to find a way to work together without ripping each other’s heads—or clothes—off.

What is a favorite compliment you received on your writing? 
The best compliment is when someone says my books feel like a rom-com movie, because that is absolutely my goal when writing them! 😀

If you could tell the debut novelist version of yourself one thing, what would it be? 
Relax and just write, because you can't control the rest of the EVERYTHING that you worry about.

If Accidentally Amy were made into a movie, who would you cast in the leading roles? 
I'm the worst at this question because I don't follow a lot of celebrities. I'd love for Izzy to be played by someone smart and good at quick-and-ridiculous sarcasm, like Zoey Deutch or Emma Stone, and Blake...hmmmm. That's too hard because I'd want someone ridiculously handsome and sophisticated on the outside, yet hilarious on the inside. The quintessential man-written-by-a-woman, so he might not actually exist!  

What is the last book you read that you would recommend? 
I read Billy Summers by Stephen King a couple years ago and still think about it all the time. Cannot stop recommending it. SO good.

If your life was a TV series, which celebrity would you want to narrate it? 
LAUREN GRAHAM; I would die.

If we were to visit you, what are some places you would take us to see? 
Nebraska gets a bad rap because, well, it's landlocked in the middle of the country and covered by a lot of corn. But Omaha is an amazing city, so I'd take you down to the Old Market so you could see that there is so much more to it than farmland!

Thanks to Lynn for chatting with us and to Berkley for sharing her book with our readers!

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