Amy Lee Lillard's Blog, page 5
November 30, 2023
Cover Reveal: A Grotesque Animal
The cover is here for A Grotesque Animal, coming June 2024 from University of Iowa Press!
Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland, says: “"This is a book that bares both teeth and soul. A bold and unabashed call to name our stories and ourselves, to take off the masks we’ve been taught to wear and live without shame. A book for the weird women—the queer women, the disabled women, the childfree and witchy women, who resist and refuse the narratives they’re given about what their bodies should be, who write their own stories, and who claim a new language for their lives."
Stay tuned for more!
Coming January 10: Wyrd Woman Podcast
When an isolated woman starts recording her dreams of strange women, things get weird. Over nine nights, reality becomes fantasy, past and future meld, and fate binds and beckons.
Why are these women – old, broken, unnatural, mad, and ugly – appearing in her dreams? Why must difference always mean danger? And what happens when these women come together, connecting across time and space as worlds die?
Wyrd Woman is an audio drama and limited fictional series from Broads and Books Productions. All episodes available January 10.
Listen to the trailer, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
November 28, 2023
Pre-order now! Exile in Guyville
You can now pre-order Exile in Guyville at all your favorite bookstores!
Exile in Guyville is the winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize.
Chelsea G. Hunters, author of A Certain Hunger, says: “Exile in Guyville takes you on a deeply poetic journey of women in exile. Women out of time, women out of place, women out of their minds, and women out of luck leap from this haunting, beautiful, slender short story collection that stays with you long after you close the book. This is a terrific collection of sneakily powerful writing and an unfettered, wild imagination.”
Gwen E. Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw, says: “This collection is explosive and inventive, balancing humor and horror as each story explores the ways in which women’s identities are built, broken, and rebuilt. I would happily be exiled with these complicated, stubborn, fierce, indomitable women!”
Stay tuned for more!
September 15, 2023
Early praise for A Grotesque Animal
A Grotesque Animal has earned some early praise:
"Amy Lee Lillard’s A Grotesque Animal is a book that bares both teeth and soul. A bold and unabashed call to name our stories and ourselves, to take off the masks we’ve been taught to wear and live without shame. In a collection of essays both searching and searing, Lillard explores the possibilities womanhood, weirdness, selfhood, and home, interrogating the stories and silences we inherit, those we tell ourselves, and those we cast off. This is a book for the weird women—the queer women, the disabled women, the childfree and witchy women, who resist and refuse the narratives they’re given about what their bodies should be, who write their own stories, and who claim a new language for their lives."
Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland
"This striking memoir sheds light on a topic that has been hidden for too long: the challenges and triumphs of girls and women with Autism. At a time when growing numbers of women are receiving this diagnosis at mid-life, Lillard offers clarity, hope, and companionship to those faced with re-learning who they are and what matters most to them."
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips, author of The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World, and editor of the forthcoming anthology Gifted-ish: Women and Non-binary Writers on Intelligence, Identity and Education.
The collection will be published in 2024. Stay tuned for much more!
September 8, 2023
Cover Reveal: Exile in Guyville
The cover is here for Exile in Guyville, coming May 2024!
Exile in Guyville is the winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize.
Chelsea G. Hunters, author of A Certain Hunger, says: “Exile in Guyville takes you on a deeply poetic journey of women in exile. Women out of time, women out of place, women out of their minds, and women out of luck leap from this haunting, beautiful, slender short story collection that stays with you long after you close the book. This is a terrific collection of sneakily powerful writing and an unfettered, wild imagination.”
Gwen E. Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw, says: “This collection is explosive and inventive, balancing humor and horror as each story explores the ways in which women’s identities are built, broken, and rebuilt. I would happily be exiled with these complicated, stubborn, fierce, indomitable women!”
Stay tuned for more!
August 28, 2023
Now Playing: Fuzzy Memories Podcast
Introducing the newest Broads and Books Production!
Fuzzy Memories is the podcast that celebrates the good, the rad and the fugly of the 80s and 90s. Three latchkey kids who made it out alive break down everything from Madonna and Masters of the Universe to Twin Peaks and Titanic.
Join Amy, Erin, and Heath to celebrate the hits, the misses and the misfits of the weirdest decades.
Subscribe to Fuzzy Memories Podcast at your favorite podcast catcher, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
August 8, 2023
Broads and Books Productions is Here
We create podcasts, publications, and presses. Led by Amy Lee Lillard and Erin Johnston, two broads who love pop culture, books, and embarrassing stories, our productions make you laugh, think, and feel all the things.
Check out our latest projects! Sign up for updates! Say hi! Visit us at Broads and Books Productions.
July 3, 2023
Early praise for Exile in Guyville
Exile in Guyville has earned some early praise:
"Amy Lee Lillard's Exile in Guyville takes you on a deeply poetic journey of women in exile. Women out of time, women out of place, women out of their minds, and women out of luck leap from this haunting, beautiful, slender short story collection that stays with you long after you close the book. This is a terrific collection of sneakily powerful writing and an unfettered, wild imagination."
Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger
"Lillard’s collection is explosive and inventive, balancing humor and horror as each story explores the ways in which women’s identities are built, broken, and rebuilt. I would happily be exiled with these complicated, stubborn, fierce, indomitable women!" Gwen E. Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw
The collection will be published in Spring 2024. Stay tuned for much more!
Amy Lee Lillard Wins Twelfth Annual BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize
May 30, 2023
Just announced: Iowa Author Award
The Iowa Author Awards, created and supported by the Des Moines Public Library Foundation, announced this year's slate of nominees. And I've received the emerging writer award!
The Iowa Author Awards dinner will be held Friday, October 20. The keynote speaker will be Andrew Sean Greer, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of celebrated bestsellers Less (2017) and Less is Lost (2022).
April 24, 2023
New: Interview on Neurodiversity and Writing
I was part of a roundtable discussion with Miracle Monocle on late-diagnosed autism, writing, and much more!
Read: Writing and Neurodiversity: A Digital Roundtable (Miracle Monocle)
