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Amy Reed Fiction

YA Author of The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World, Our Stories, Our Voices, The Nowhere Girls and other books.

TELL ME MY NAME is out today!

March 9, 2021 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Hello!

I am so excited to announce that my new book, TELL ME MY NAME, officially releases into the world TODAY! The hardcover, ebook, and audiobook are available at all the book places, including my local indie Malaprop’s (if you order from them, I can sign and personalize your copy), Indiebound, Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, Amazon, and others. You should also be able to find it at your local bookstores and libraries, and you can always request that they order it if they don’t have a copy. I would be incredibly grateful if you’d leave a positive review on Amazon and Goodreads. It really helps!

I’d also be honored if you’d come to my virtual launch event tonight at 6:00-7:00 pm EST, hosted by Malaprop’s and in conversation with my awesome YA author friend Jeff Zentner. The event is free, but make sure you register beforehand so Malaprop’s can send you the link.

 

You can find a lot more info about the book below, but first I wanted to share a little about why I wrote it.

I remember reading The Great Gatsby in high school and being told it was the Great American Novel. Like most of the books I was assigned to read in school, I tried really hard to understand it, or at least sound like I understood it. At the same time, I had a vague distrust of it. Who was deeming it so important? And why?

Even though I had a hard time relating to Gatsby’s decadent world of rich white men and vacuous women, I loved the themes it explored—the dark side of the American Dream, how greed and delusion can destroy a person. I remember being intrigued by what I perceived to be the homoerotic undertones of narrator Nick Carraway’s obsessive friendship with Jay Gatsby, which none of my classmates seemed to notice, which intrigued me even more.

When I read the book as an adult two decades later, it was a completely different experience. It was the middle of the Trump presidency. I was terrified of climate change and heartbroken over social and economic injustice. I was also eleven years sober and a good distance from the mental health challenges and trauma of my teen and young adult years. I wondered:

Where was I in this story? What would happen if it was told from the perspective of a teen girl? How would the themes in Gatsby translate to a young woman’s life? And what if I set it fifty years from now, in a world where all of the excesses of capitalism and industrialization had reached their breaking point?

Interesting things happened when I starting answering these questions. I began to ask even more: What are the stories of the people the American Dream leaves behind? What about the people who keep chasing it anyway? How does the craving to be seen and valued affect us on a deeper level? Where does that craving come from? How is craving itself the underlying cause of all the suffering we experience and the harm we inflict?

The world is literally on fire in Tell Me My Name. Parts of the southern U.S. and East Coast are completely underwater. The divide between rich and poor is even more extreme than it is now. And yet Fern and Ivy keep fighting to salvage themselves in the ruins of the world around them. Still, they manage to forge connection to something good and pure inside themselves. Still, redemption and justice are possible.

I needed this story to both explore my fear of the future and find my way out of that fear. I don’t think I’m alone in this. I think many teens—and adults—feel this way. We will not move forward by ignoring what scares us. Ultimately, that is what Fern and Ivy learn, and it’s what I learned by telling their stories.

My wish is that you will find hope in these pages. My wish is that Tell Me My Name will touch the part of you that can love and be brave even when you are terrified, even when it feels like the world is on fire.

Thank you so  much for your support, and I hope you love Fern and Ivy as much as I do.

In gratitude,

Amy Reed


TELL ME MY NAME

by Amy Reed

We Were Liars meets Speak in this haunting, mesmerizing psychological thriller—a gender-flipped YA Great Gatsby—that will linger long after the final line

On wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting—for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen. When they’re together, Fern has purpose. She glimpses the secrets Ivy hides behind her fame, her fortune, the lavish parties she throws at her great glass house, and understands that Ivy hurts in ways Fern can’t fathom. And soon, it’s clear Ivy wants someone Fern can help her get. But as the two pull closer, Fern’s cozy life on Commodore unravels: drought descends, fires burn, and a reckless night spins out of control. Everything Fern thought she understood—about her home, herself, the boy she loved, about Ivy Avila—twists and bends into something new. And Fern won’t emerge the same person she was.

An enthralling, mind-altering psychological thriller, Tell Me My Name is about the cost of being a girl in a world that takes so much, and the enormity of what is regained when we take it back.

The New York Times: “13 Y.A. Books to Add to Your Reading List This Spring”

“A lush, gorgeously crafted page-turner.” —Jennifer Mathieu, author of Moxie

“A kaleidoscope of light and shadow that will keep you flipping page after page.”
—Amber Smith, author of The Way We Used to Be

★ “Immersive [and] smartly written.” —SLJ (starred review)

“Only Amy Reed could write a novel this dark, this gorgeous, this forward-looking while speaking to our present moment.” —Wiley Cash, author of A Land More Kind Than Home

“The best kind of literary thriller—one with as much conscience as pulse.”
 —Brendan Kiely, co-author of All American Boys

“I haven’t felt this way since reading We Were Liars—mind blown.”
 —Jaye Robin Brown, author of Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

★ “As much Hitchcockian suspense as Fitzgerald’s tarnished glitz.” 
—BCCB (starred review)

“This novel is amazing . . . A pulsating, hypnotic retelling.” —Lilliam Rivera, author of The Education of Margot Sanchez

“Relentlessly compelling . . . Reed’s latest is a literary thrill ride.”
—Kelly Jensen, author of (Don’t) Call Me Crazy and editor at BookRiot

“[A] harrowing tale of personal trauma in a violently polarized society.” 
—Kirkus

“A compelling and propulsive thriller.” 
—Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King

“I barely breathed the last 100 pages. Simply stunning.”
 —Megan Shepherd, author of The Madman’s Daughter

www.amyreedfiction.com

 

 

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THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD is out TODAY!!

July 9, 2019 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Dear friends,
I am so incredibly excited to announce that my new book, THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD, is officially out in the world TODAY, and available from online booksellers including Malaprop’s (my local indie), Books-a-Million, Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Simon & Schuster. You should also be able to find it at your local bookstores and libraries, and you can always request that they order it if they don’t have a copy. I would be incredibly grateful if you’d leave a positive review on Amazonand Goodreads. It really helps!

This book is very different than my last nine (!) novels. Like all of my books, it deals with pretty dark stuff—two lonely, motherless teens from the wrong side of the tracks; a community wracked by generational poverty, dysfunction, and addiction; and now with the exciting addition of global catastrophe and the end of the world!—but in many ways this is also my most cheerful book. I started writing it after the 2016 election, when I was feeling anything but optimistic. The world was (and is) on fire, but I made a choice to not wallow in it. Instead, I responded to the brokenness of the world with what I thought, maybe, could fix it. And I added a little fantasy and magic while I was at it.

Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon were born with their cards stacked against them, and, like most of us at one time or another, they’ve had to rely on sometimes questionable coping skills to survive. But in the middle of all the madness, they managed to find each other, and have begun to learn what it takes to survive, and thrive, together—not alone, but as community, as chosen family. They were my family while I wrote this book; they kept me company and gave me hope while the world outside felt like it was falling apart. They reminded me over and over again that the only way to heal the fracturing of our hearts is through connection.

I also found that a great way to deal with the absurdity of the world is to make it even more absurd, so in this book you will also find unicorns and dragons, a mad king, a narcissistic rock star, a haunted house, a little ghost, modern dance, nefarious birds, singing dolls, a little romance, and all kinds of extreme weather. Because why not?

I hope you will find Billy and Lydia to be as wonderful companions as they were for me. Maybe they will even teach you a little about what it takes to survive the apocalypse.

Below you will find some more info about THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD. Thanks so much for your support, and thank you for reading.

Love,
Amy


THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD
by Amy Reed

The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them or at the very least make them face some painful truths about the nature of what drives us apart…and what brings us together.

Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.

When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them—maybe even because of them. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such inconveniences as a narcissistic rock star, a war between unicorns and dragons, and eventually, of course, the apocalypse.

With a unique mix of raw emotion, humor, and heart, the surreal plotline pulls readers through an epic exploration of how caring for others makes us vulnerable—and how utterly pointless life would be if we didn’t.


PS: The beautiful new paperback edition of THE NOWHERE GIRLSis out today too! Go ahead and pick up a copy when you buy THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD🙂

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The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World PLAYLIST!

June 10, 2019 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

My new book THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD comes out in ONE MONTH (which you can pre-order from all the places), and to celebrate I made a book-inspired PLAYLIST that includes tons of my favorite songs from the Pacific Northwest music scene in the 90’s, which will make perfect sense once you know a little more about the book.

BOY AND GIRL is set in a fictional coastal Washington county called Fog Harbor, which is closely based on Grays Harbor county where my dad (and Kurt Cobain) came from. Billy Sloat, one of the main characters, has an uncle named Caleb who’s the most famous rock star in the world, front man for the band Rainy Day Knife Fight (FYI coming up with fictional band names is the best). At one point in the book, Billy describes his uncle’s music as sounding like “fog and rainstorms and rocks on train tracks and old trees cracking,” which is where I got the title for this playlist. The phrase could also describe most of my favorite music.

I grew up in Seattle in the 90’s and was a music nerd. My family has a strangely close relationship with Kurt Cobain (my cousin was his best friend and Kurt lived with my uncle and family for a while when he left home in high school). Despite this connection, perhaps because of my younger age or my naturally sentimental disposition, I always felt more aligned with the music that came later. Less metal, more melodic. This playlist has both—Nirvana and some of the harder early-90’s stuff, with a lot of the more hipster indie stuff that I fell in love with in the late 90’s.

Kurt Cobain would have probably hated Death Cab for Cutie. He would have probably called them, like Caleb Sloat calls other popular bands in the book, “all those turds with master’s degrees in, like, philosophy and art history [wearing] fucking ties and loafers and fedoras and shit.”

But I think that tension is an important part of the book, and an important part of the music inspired by my home. I come from a place that is full of rain and anger and sadness and a deep mysterious beauty, and there is a long lineage of people who have made very different music and art and literature out of all of these things. This book is a humble attempt to be part of that lineage. Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon, the heroes of THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD, are trying, like we all are to some extent, to make something beautiful out of their pain. As am I.

I’ll just say, if you only listen to one song on this playlist, it should be Hoquiam by Damien Jurado, named after my dad’s (and Damien’s, and maybe Lydia Lemon’s) hometown. If there is one song that sounds like the Washington coast on a cold wet cloudy day, it’s this.

Also, Don’t Touch My Bikini, by the Halo Benders. Because it’s awesome.

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THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD Playlist

“Fog and rainstorms and rocks on trees tracks and old trees cracking”

1. Come As You Are (Nirvana)
2. Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns (Mother Love Bone)
3. Hoquiam (Damien Jurado)
4. Entire (The Spinanes)
5. Dramamine (Modest Mouse)
6. Car (Built to Spill)
7. Coming Up Roses (Elliott Smith)
8. Slow and Steady Wins the Race (Pedro the Lion)
9. Bend to Squares (Death Cab for Cutie)
10. Gnossienne No. 1 (Satie)
11. I Wish I Was the Moon (Neko Case)
12. Sheets (Damien Jurado)
13. Between the Bars (Elliott Smith)
14. Lithium (Nirvana)
15. Everybody’s Best Friend (Hazel)
16. Last Call (Elliott Smith)
17. Good Things (Sleater-Kinney)
18. Would? (Alice in Chains)
19. Rock Star (Hole)
20. Don’t Touch My Bikini (The Halo Benders)
21. I Felt Your Shape (The Microphones)
22. 405 (Death Cab for Cutie)
23. This Tornado Loves You (Neko Case)
24. Sweepstakes Prize (Mirah)
25. Company Calls Epilogue (Death Cab for Cutie)
26. Bad Things to Such Good People (Pedro the Lion)
27. Tornado (Damien Jurado)
28. Gymnopedies: No. 3, Lent et grave (Satie)
29. To Protect the Family Name (Pedro the Lion)
30. Truly (Hazel)
31. Montesano (Damien Jurado)
32. Say Yes (Elliott Smith)

Yes, I went a little overboard. As I said: music nerd.

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THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD is out in THREE MONTHS!

April 8, 2019 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Hello!

My new book THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD is officially out in just three months, on July 9! I would be incredibly honored and grateful if you’d help spread the world and pre-order a copy (and maybe throw in the new paperback of THE NOWHERE GIRLS while you’re at it). Pre-orders are a really powerful way to support a book and to help it get attention from booksellers.

Great news! BOY AND GIRL is available for pre-order from all your favorite online places to get books:

– Malaprop’s (my favorite local indie bookstore in Asheville, NC)
– Indie Bound
– Barnes and Noble
– Books-a-Million
– Simon & Schuster
– Amazon

Writing this book kept my heart from breaking over the last couple very difficult years. It’s about lovable weirdos, the healing power of friendship, and finding hope even when the world is falling apart.

This book is also special to me because I allowed myself to get a little…weird with it. As a teen, I was obsessed with Tom Robbins and his quirky, warmhearted, and surreal take on the Pacific Northwest where I grew up. This book, in some ways, is my humble attempt to honor that lineage. I’ve always been a huge fan of authors who integrate surreal and magical elements into their realism, and I let myself have a lot of fun with this one. Because what’s more fun than the end of the world, right?

Below you will find the official book description and a lovely blurb from one of my favorite YA authors. Thanks for all your support over the years, and I hope you love this book as much as I loved writing it.

xo

Amy

THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD

The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them or at the very least make them face some painful truths about the nature of what drives us apart…and what brings us together.

Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.

When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them—maybe even because of them. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such inconveniences as a narcissistic rock star, a war between unicorns and dragons, and eventually, of course, the apocalypse.

With a unique mix of raw emotion, humor, and heart, the surreal plotline pulls readers through an epic exploration of how caring for others makes us vulnerable—and how utterly pointless life would be if we didn’t.

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World is gritty, gutsy, and ferociously strange. Amy Reed offers us a surreal yet oddly familiar world teetering on the edge of destruction and offers hopeful and inventive ways to survive the pain and salvage our dreams. This story is powerful and unique, and I envied its wild and irreverent vision to pieces. (Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us)

Oh, and another cool thing! The paperback edition of THE NOWHERE GIRLS is coming out on the same day, with a GORGEOUS new cover! You can go ahead and throw that in your virtual shopping cart too 🙂

 

 

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Cover Reveal for Amy Reed’s new book THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD!

October 10, 2018 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

 

I am beyond thrilled to finally share the cover for my new book, THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD, coming Summer 2019. Writing this book kept my heart from breaking over the last couple very difficult years. It’s about lovable weirdos, the healing power of friendship, and finding hope even when the world is falling apart.

And it’s available for pre-order HERE!

Here’s a little more about the book:

THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD
BY AMY REED

The Astonishing Color of After meets Eleanor & Park in this breathtaking and beautifully surreal story about a friendship between two teens that just might shake the earth around them or at the very least make them face some painful truths about the nature of what drives us apart…and what brings us together.

Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.

When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism is met with Billy’s sincere optimism, and both begin to question their own outlook on life. On top of that, weird happenings including an impossible tornado and an all-consuming fog are cropping up around them—maybe even because of them. And as the two grow closer and confront bigger truths about their pasts, they must also deal with such inconveniences as a narcissistic rock star, a war between unicorns and dragons, and eventually, of course, the apocalypse.

With a unique mix of raw emotion, humor, and heart, the surreal plotline pulls readers through an epic exploration of how caring for others makes us vulnerable—and how utterly pointless life would be if we didn’t.

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OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES is out TODAY!

August 14, 2018 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

I am so incredibly excited to announce that my anthology, OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES: 21 YA AUTHORS GET REAL ABOUT INJUSTICE, EMPOWERMENT, AND GROWING UP FEMALE IN AMERICA is officially out in the world today, and available from online booksellers including Malaprop’s (my local indie), Books-a-Million, Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Simon & Schuster. You should also be able to find it at your local bookstores and libraries, and you can always request that they order it if they don’t have a copy.

First, I want to thank the incredible authors who shared their wisdom, vulnerability, and courage in their contributions to this book: Martha Brockenbrough, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Brandy Colbert, Somaiya Daud, Christine Day, Alexandra Duncan, I.W. Gregorio, Maurene Goo, Ellen Hopkins, Stephanie Kuehnert, Nina LaCour, Anna-Marie McLemore, Sandhya Menon, Hannah Moskowitz, Julie Murphy, Aisha Saeed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Amber Smith, and Tracy Walker. They are incredible writers and incredible women, and I am honored to call them my friends. Read all their books. Seriously.

I kept trying to think about what I would say here about the book on release day, and I realize I said it best in the book’s Introduction, so, with my publisher’s permission, I am including it below. Thank you for caring about my work and the work of the authors in this anthology. Thank you for caring about our stories. I hope you read them and and are inspired to tell your own. Because in these times when so many of us are feeling silenced, our voices and our stories are our greatest resistance.

Love, Amy

[Read more…] about OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES is out TODAY!

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Upcoming Events in North Carolina; AWP in Tampa, FL; NESCWBI in Springfield, MA

February 19, 2018 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

It’s going to be a busy Spring! I have a new book due to my editor March 1, and then I’m doing a ton of events all over the South and Northeast. Hope to see you!

Friday, March 2, 2018
Quail Ridge Books
Author Panel with Amber Smith and Brenda Rufener
7:00-8:30 p.m. – North Hills, 4209 -100 Lassiter Mill Road, Raleigh NC 27609

March 7-10, 2018
AWP 2018 Annual Conference
Tampa Convention Center & Marriott Tampa Waterside, Tampa, Florida

Thursday, March 8, 2018
From Best Friends Forever to Toxic Bonds: Digging Deep into Complex Female Friendships in Young Adult Literature: Author panel with Marcy Beller Paul, Anica Mrose Rissi, Sarah Nicole Smetana, and Kit Frick
3:00-4:15 p.m. – Meeting Room 1, 2nd Floor, Marriott Waterside

Saturday, March 10, 2018
Bad Girls Do It Well: Creating Flawed and Fully Formed “Bad” Girl Characters in YA Fiction:
Author panel with Lilliam Rivera, Nova Ren Suma, Erika Sanchez, Brandy Colbert
12:15-1:15pm – Meeting Room 9 & 10, Marriott Waterside, 3rd Floor

Saturday, March 17, 2018
Park Road Books
Park Road Shopping Center, 4139 Park Road, Charlotte, NC 28209
2:00 p.m. – Author Panel with Amber Smith and Brenda Rufener

Monday, March 19, 2018
Malaprop’s
55 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801
6:00-7:30 pm – Amber Smith and Brenda Rufener author panel (Amy Reed moderating)

Friday, March 30 – Saturday, March 31, 2018
2018 Doris Betts Writers Festival
Mitchell Community College
500 West Broad Street, Statesville, NC
Book signing: Friday, March 30, 5:30 pm; Main Building, Room 129
Writing Workshop (space limited, reservations required): Saturday, March 31, 9:30am
Reading and Q&A: Saturday, March 31, 1:00 pm; Shearer Hall
Author panel with Wiley Cash, Grace Ocasio, and Terri Kirby Erickson: Saturday, March 31, 2:00 pm; Shearer Hall

Friday, April 20 – Sunday, April 22, 2018
New England SCWBI
Springfield, MA
Keynote Speaker
Location & Time TBA

(P.S. If you haven’t already picked up a copy of THE NOWHERE GIRLS, maybe you’d like to? If you have, how about leaving a review on Amazon? My feminist YA anthology OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES is now available for pre-order too. Whee!)

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THE NOWHERE GIRLS is out TODAY!

October 10, 2017 By AmyReed Leave a Comment

Dear friends,

It is such an honor to finally share my new book, THE NOWHERE GIRLS, with you. This book is close to my heart for so many reasons, and I can’t wait for you to meet Grace, Rosina, Erin, and all the amazing girls (and boys) who have inspired me with their courage.

I wrote this book as an act of both love and resistance. I wrote it for my daughter, for all the daughters, because I want us to live in a world with less shame, fear, and silence. A world with more truth, solidarity, and joy. A world where girls feel comfortable and safe in their skin, where they feel supported by their friends and community, where they fight for each other and what’s right, even when everybody else seems to be doing wrong. Grace, Rosina, Erin, and the rest of the Nowhere Girls are building this better world, and I hope they inspire you to join them. They have inspired me more than I can say.

I would be incredibly honored if you’d consider picking up a copy of THE NOWHERE GIRLS at your local bookstore, library, or online at one of these fine retailers:

  • Amazon

  • Barnes & Noble

  • Indiebound

  • Books-a-Million

  • Simon & Schuster

  • Malaprop’s  

And if you’re in Asheville, NC, come by Malaprop’s Books tonight at 6:00 pm for my book release event and get a copy signed by me.

Please spread the word! And don’t forget to leave a review on Amazon, Goodreads, and B&N.com. It helps so much.

 

Here’s a little more about the book:

WHO ARE THE NOWHERE GIRLS?
They’re everygirl. But they start with just three.

GRACE SALTER is the new girl in town, whose family had to leave their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal.

ROSINA SUAREZ is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.

ERIN DELILLO is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may be an android.

Grace wants nothing more than to be invisible at her new school, but when she learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town after accusing the popular guys at school of gang rape, she convinces Rosina and Erin to join her mission to get justice for Lucy. They form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students. As the Nowhere Girls grow in numbers, their movement becomes about more than sex and transforms the lives of its members, their school, and the entire community.

THE NOWHERE GIRLS ARE EVERYWHERE.

“A call-to-action to everyone out there who wants to fight back.” –Bustle

“Empowering, brutally honest, and realistically complex.” –Buzzfeed

“Subversive anti-sexism—just try to put it down.” –Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“A thoughtful, literary portrayal of female sexuality in a culture that often rejects it.”–Booklist, starred review

Thank you for all your support! I appreciate each and every one of you.

Love,

Amy

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THE NOWHERE GIRLS Kick-Ass Girls Rock playlist!

October 3, 2017 By AmyReed 1 Comment

It’s only ONE WEEK until my new book THE NOWHERE GIRLS is out, and I’m celebrating by sharing THIS PLAYLIST of songs by kick-ass girl musicians that inspired me as a teen. The voices of these women helped shape me and helped me shape the brave girls in the book (especially Rosina, who I can’t wait for you to meet).

I hope you enjoy! It makes a great soundtrack for both jogging and smashing the patriarchy 😉

xoxo

Amy

THE NOWHERE GIRLS Kick-Ass Girls Rock playlist!

  1. axemen, by Heavens to Betsy
  2. Not a Pretty Girl, by Ani Difranco
  3. Untouchable Face, by Ani Difranco
  4. Happy and Bleeding, by PJ Harvey
  5. Sheela-Na-Gig, by PJ Harvey
  6. Good Things, by Sleater-Kinney
  7. Dig Me Out, by Sleater-Kinney
  8. Entire, by The Spinanes
  9. Rebel Girl, by Bikini Kill
  10. Fuck and Run, by Liz Phair
  11. Let’s Talk About Sex, by Salt-N-Pepa
  12. The Letter, by Kristin Hersh
  13. Ladykillers, by Lush
  14. More Rock More Talk, by The Butchies
  15. So, Goodbye, by The Butchies
  16. Lt Tour Theme, by Le Tigre
  17. Hot Topic, by Le Tigre
  18. Rock Star, by Hole

If you haven’t already, you can read an excerpt of THE NOWHERE GIRLS here.

Yep, it’s available for pre-order here and here and lots of other places.

Also…

#PubforPR is an incredible auction happening right now to raise money for the people of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Make a bid on tons of great stuff like books, artwork, and consultations with agents and editors. Auction closes Thursday, October 5 at 10pm EST! (Or please donate directly to Unidos por Puerto Rico).

Please also consider donating HERE to help victims of the Las Vegas shooting.

And HERE to support Everytown for Gun Safety and their efforts to reduce gun violence in America.

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Read an Excerpt of THE NOWHERE GIRLS!

September 12, 2017 By AmyReed 1 Comment

THE NOWHERE GIRLS Excerpt

In four short weeks, the book of my heart will be out in the world. I can’t wait for you to meet the incredible young women in THE NOWHERE GIRLS. Well, good news! You don’t have to wait that long.

Here are the first few chapters to get you started, until October 10 when you can get the whole book (Psst: you can pre-order now). I am thrilled to introduce you to Erin, Rosina, Grace, and their many friends, and I hope they inspire you as much as they’ve inspired me.

xo
Amy

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