Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
"One of the funniest writers in America." 
That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen―and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable.
With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through life’s journey. One moment she’s flirting shamelessly―and unsuccessfully―with a younger man at a wedding; the next she’s stumbling upon X-rated images on her daughter’s computer. She ponders the connection between her ex-husband’s questions about the location of their silverware, and the divorce that came a year later. While undergoing chemotherapy, she experiments with being a “wig person.” And she considers those perplexing questions that we never pause to ask: Why do people say “It is what it is”? What’s the point of fat-free half-and-half ? And haven’t we heard enough about memes?
Jenny Allen’s musings range fluidly from the personal to the philosophical. She writes with the familiarity of someone telling a dinner party anecdote, forgoing decorum for candor and comedy. To read Would Everybody Please Stop? is to experience life with imaginative and incisive humor.

Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

Humor & Entertainment

Allen, Jenny

Humor

Sarah Crichton Books

THE STORY: I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER is a comic riff on one woman's adventures after falling down the medical rabbit hole. Diagnosed with and treated for ovarian cancer, Jenny tells her story of the harrowing tailspin she took following her diag

I Got Sick Then I Got Better

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

"I absolutely LOVED IT! It was so thrilling and captivating. I am a huge thriller and forensic loving book advocate with a deep love for fantasy mixed with reality. This was everything of the sort and more!" - Courtney Hope (Sally Spectra, The Bold &amp; the Beautiful)NYPD forensics expert Lilith Adams may not be exactly human but it has not made her life any less monotonous. All she wants is a real mystery to chase--a purpose. Everything is about to change and her quiet little life will never be the same. When her uncle goes missing from a small town in Tennessee, Lilith's doting father sends her to investigate with his head of security, Chance Deveraux. They quickly find themselves in a whirlwind of violence and terror that uncovers a secret that has been buried for over 600 years: a vengeful secret that could very well cost her everything. To survive, Lilith and Chance have to find powerful new allies...but trusting them may be the biggest mistake of all.

Blood Lily

Genre Fiction

Indie Gypsy

"One of the funniest writers in America." 
That’s what The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen―and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable.
With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through life’s journey. One moment she’s flirting shamelessly―and unsuccessfully―with a younger man at a wedding; the next she’s stumbling upon X-rated images on her daughter’s computer. She ponders the connection between her ex-husband’s questions about the location of their silverware, and the divorce that came a year later. While undergoing chemotherapy, she experiments with being a “wig person.” And she considers those perplexing questions that we never pause to ask: Why do people say “It is what it is”? What’s the point of fat-free half-and-half ? And haven’t we heard enough about memes?
Jenny Allen’s musings range fluidly from the personal to the philosophical. She writes with the familiarity of someone telling a dinner party anecdote, forgoing decorum for candor and comedy. To listen to Would Everybody Please Stop? is to experience life with imaginative and incisive humor.

MacMillan Audio

When Lilith Adams accepted Detective Andrew Cohen’s help to defeat the horror from her father’s past, she knew she was making a deal with a devil. Now the true price of his help has come to light and the cost is beyond anything she could imagine. Lilith and Chance are forced into the service of a mysterious council whose cold brutality surpasses Ashcroft’s maniacal revenge in their rabid desire for the Voyurich Manuscript. The book, authored by Lilith’s uncle 600 years ago, is not only incomplete, but also missing, due to a high tech robbery that has left baffling bodies tore apart in its wake. Now Lilith and Chance are scrambling for every lead as the impossible becomes real and everything that was once buried comes crawling into the light. Nothing is guaranteed in the desperate race for the power hidden in the enigmatic book that holds all the ghosts of not only the past of Lilith’s family but Cohen’s as well. Every loyalty and bit of sanity is tested in the violent whirlwind of gripping terror that Lilith and Chance are thrown into. Caught between emotion-feeding demons, a vicious siren and an actual voodoo witch with a terrifying power, the real question is who will be left standing when the storm passes.

Rose of Jericho (Lilith Adams Vampire)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"I absolutely LOVED IT! It was so thrilling and captivating. I am a huge thriller and forensic loving book advocate with a deep love for fantasy mixed with reality. This was everything of the sort and more!" - Courtney Hope (Sally Spectra, The Bold & the Beautiful)NYPD forensics expert Lilith Adams may not be exactly human but it has not made her life any less monotonous. All she wants is a real mystery to chase--a purpose. Everything is about to change and her quiet little life will never be the same. When her uncle goes missing from a small town in Tennessee, Lilith's doting father sends her to investigate with his head of security, Chance Deveraux. They quickly find themselves in a whirlwind of violence and terror that uncovers a secret that has been buried for over 600 years: a vengeful secret that could very well cost her everything. To survive, Lilith and Chance have to find powerful new allies...but trusting them may be the biggest mistake of all.

Fulton Books

A practical and inspiring guide to the principles of Permaculture, an organic method of gardening based on using natures solutions to achieve abundance. This practice releases the gardener from much of the drudgery of repetitive tasks. The smart lateral thinking that underscores permaculture can be used by anyone and for any garden.

Smart Permaculture Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

New Holland Publishing Australia Pty Ltd

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Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

I Got Sick Then I Got Better

Blood Lily

Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas

Rose of Jericho (Lilith Adams Vampire)

Blood Lily

Smart Permaculture Design