Annie Wood creëert komische scènes en verhalen die zich vaak verdiepen in de absurditeiten van het dagelijks leven. Haar schrijven kenmerkt zich door een scherpe, geestige stem en een geoefend oog voor dialoog, waardoor herkenbare personages en situaties tot leven komen. Wood verkent thema's als identiteit en relaties met humor en intelligentie, en creëert werken die zowel vermakelijk als tot nadenken stemmend zijn. Haar onderscheidende aanpak biedt lezers een frisse kijk op de menselijke ervaring.
Seventeen-year-old Lauren is a closet poet trying to keep her messy family together. She juggles responsibility for her two younger sisters and her bipolar mother. When her allegedly now sober father wants back into their lives to reconnect, everything spins out of control and Lauren's writing is her only escape. Just a Girl in the Whirl is about family, forgiveness and being bold enough to create your own life, your own way.
Beer bellied, lackadaisical, middle-aged documentary filmmaker, Martin Stazinsky, lives alone in his less-than-average apartment, in his less-than-average life in sunny (but not so sunny to him) Los Angeles, California.Martin doesn't expect anything extraordinary to ever happen to him. And nothing ever does. That is, until Martin’s hired to film a documentary for the eccentric quantum physicist, The Professor. Before Martin knows what's happening, his less-than-average life becomes a wild, remarkable adventure into worm holes, string theory, true love and parallel lives.
Dandy Day is a thirty-five year old free-spirited, commitment-phobic, Venice Boardwalk roller skating waitress. When Dandy is suddenly dumped by her therapist, right when they were on the brink of figuring out why her relationships last only a whopping three months, Dandy decides to take her relationship issues into her own hands. With the reluctant help of her lifelong best friend, Simon, Dandy tracks down her exes one by one and does a relationship autopsy on each of them in order to get to the bottom of her relationship challenged life. A short novel about love, friendship and grown-ups, growing up. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DANDY DAY: Meeting Annie Wood's, DANDY DAY, gives you that spark you feel when you bump into someone awkwardly charming, surprisingly witty, and so improbably original & positive, it's as if somehow they're more brightly alive than everyone around them. Clever, funny and real. DANDY DAY is a surprising, fun, laugh-out-loud Romantic Comedy. The quirky writing in Dandy Day is a perfect literary escape