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None of this is Going According to Plan
For fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and David Sedaris - None of this is Going According to Plan is an assortment of hilarious, true, short stories that have taken place over the course of Brandee Stilwell's life. If you have a few minutes to kill on the subway, need some entertainment before you fall asleep, or unexpected time on the toilet? Look no further. Brandee is here to share her shame with you.
Stilwell realized early on some of her most humiliating moments in her life were the ones that resonated yet haunted her for years to come. They defined her. In None of this is Going According to Plan, Stilwell takes her readers on a mortifying and hysterical journey through her childhood in Kansas, her awkward goth teen years, to wearing her scoliosis back brace to parties at the Playboy Mansion, having diarrhea at the Emmy Awards while on a date with a writer from The Simpsons, to offering to dig up her boyfriend's grandmother's grave to get her dentures back into her casket, and sadly, many, many, many more stories along these lines.
Stilwell realized early on some of her most humiliating moments in her life were the ones that resonated yet haunted her for years to come. They defined her. In None of this is Going According to Plan, Stilwell takes her readers on a mortifying and hysterical journey through her childhood in Kansas, her awkward goth teen years, to wearing her scoliosis back brace to parties at the Playboy Mansion, having diarrhea at the Emmy Awards while on a date with a writer from The Simpsons, to offering to dig up her boyfriend's grandmother's grave to get her dentures back into her casket, and sadly, many, many, many more stories along these lines.
424 pages, Paperback
First published November 5, 2021
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Brandee Stilwell
9 books1 followerBorn and raised as both Quaker and Cherokee in the number-one flyover state of Kansas. Brandee left the Midwest so she wouldn't become another statistic of being a divorced mother of three by the age of 19 or serving any time in the local state pen. So, she moved to Los Angeles, where she became an unsuccessful comedy writer instead. Her parents are super proud!
Brandee's resume includes stints at Mad TV, Family Guy, American Dad, and DC Comics. She has worked on various other shows for the CW, Fox, and Nickelodeon. She has written several things that she promises you've never heard of or are currently out of print. In the fall of 2021, Brandee’s book of true, sometimes tragic but always funny short stories will be published by Sideshow Media Group called None of this is Going According to Plan. Brandee is the creator/writer of Sasquatch Detective published by DC Comics. She's also the writer of audio dialogue for Amazon Echo's partnership with The Walt Disney Company for Disney Dailies including Zootopia and The Incredibles as well as My Disney Story featuring The Little Mermaid, Cars, The Princess and the Frog and Mickey & Friends. She was the audio editor/ rewriter for the Star Wars: Choose Your Own Adventure series (Obi-Wan & Anakin, Han & Chewie, Luke & Leia, and Finn & Poe).
Brandee's preferred color is blue. She adores singing loudly out of key to the wrong made-up lyrics in her head while dancing to Euro 80s music. Her favorite food is Mexican, even though sometimes it doesn't love her back. She's really good at having randomly weird things happen to her like wild, or feral animals coming up to her mistaking her for Snow White. Brandee loves playing and watching sports. The back of her Earth Destroyer 3000 looks like a sporting goods store full of cleats, bats, sleeping bags, and even her own engraved bowling ball. Her ghost-hunting equipment is stored in her hall closet.
Brandee hates clowns; angry or mean people; clowns; carnation flowers (while she's at it, she might as well add baby's breath in floral arrangements because Brandee believes they are weeds and they don't belong in floral arrangements because they are just awful); people who lie; cheat, or steal; people who litter; petty drama; helium balloons; and she still really hates clowns (and really doesn't want them to love her back).
Brandee studied at The Groundlings and UCB and is an Improv Olympic-West (RIP) and Second City-Hollywood alumna.
Brandee's resume includes stints at Mad TV, Family Guy, American Dad, and DC Comics. She has worked on various other shows for the CW, Fox, and Nickelodeon. She has written several things that she promises you've never heard of or are currently out of print. In the fall of 2021, Brandee’s book of true, sometimes tragic but always funny short stories will be published by Sideshow Media Group called None of this is Going According to Plan. Brandee is the creator/writer of Sasquatch Detective published by DC Comics. She's also the writer of audio dialogue for Amazon Echo's partnership with The Walt Disney Company for Disney Dailies including Zootopia and The Incredibles as well as My Disney Story featuring The Little Mermaid, Cars, The Princess and the Frog and Mickey & Friends. She was the audio editor/ rewriter for the Star Wars: Choose Your Own Adventure series (Obi-Wan & Anakin, Han & Chewie, Luke & Leia, and Finn & Poe).
Brandee's preferred color is blue. She adores singing loudly out of key to the wrong made-up lyrics in her head while dancing to Euro 80s music. Her favorite food is Mexican, even though sometimes it doesn't love her back. She's really good at having randomly weird things happen to her like wild, or feral animals coming up to her mistaking her for Snow White. Brandee loves playing and watching sports. The back of her Earth Destroyer 3000 looks like a sporting goods store full of cleats, bats, sleeping bags, and even her own engraved bowling ball. Her ghost-hunting equipment is stored in her hall closet.
Brandee hates clowns; angry or mean people; clowns; carnation flowers (while she's at it, she might as well add baby's breath in floral arrangements because Brandee believes they are weeds and they don't belong in floral arrangements because they are just awful); people who lie; cheat, or steal; people who litter; petty drama; helium balloons; and she still really hates clowns (and really doesn't want them to love her back).
Brandee studied at The Groundlings and UCB and is an Improv Olympic-West (RIP) and Second City-Hollywood alumna.
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November 30, 2021
I laughed, I cried, I was very uncomfortable. This hard-to-put-down memoir gives a raw, hilarious, and poignant look at a life filled with both ridiculous luck and poor decision making skills. Just like those enormously entertaining horror movies where you want to yell at the protagonist not to do it, (spoiler alert) Brandee does it.
March 6, 2022
This was a book of short stories about her life. While some were really funny others were pretty lame.
I think she probably is a great storyteller in person but it's hard to get that moved to paper sometimes.
She also needed a better editor. I found a lot of mistakes through it.
Thank you Ashton for my wonderful Christmas present!
I think she probably is a great storyteller in person but it's hard to get that moved to paper sometimes.
She also needed a better editor. I found a lot of mistakes through it.
Thank you Ashton for my wonderful Christmas present!
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews