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Queer Joy: being gay as in happyAuthor Lex Croucher Loses Arm Wrestle Live on Air !Okay no, we don’t arm wrestle because that would be terrible audio content, but we do fight each other verbally really far more than you'd expect. Direct quote from my esteemed guest: 'Lily, why don't you just like lift a fucking weight?' You recognise Lex from their literally millions of bestselling and award-winning historicalish romcom novels (which are all absolutely excellent, buy them), as well as from their attendance at literally millions of MUNA concerts. In this conversation, Lex gives you some ASMR from their main character energy coffee while discussing the joys of fa...
2024-04-2552 min
Queer Joy: being gay as in happyBaby Got Gaydar ! with radical bi butch bookseller Erica GillinghamThe delightful Gay's the Word bookseller on butch haircuts, queer poetry retreats, and the mother of all queer joys – raising your son in an extended chosen family. (Sorry but imagine how cool this baby is going to become – his literal first film was Rebel Dykes?!) Also, of course, many, many expert queer joy book recommendations.Knitting is gay, crochet is lesbian, quilting is bi. Can any crafty queers confirm if this is scientifically accurate? 💫 Buy Erica's poetry here: The Human Body is a HiveErica Shout-Outs:Queer children's books Julie A...
2024-04-1046 min
Queer Joy: being gay as in happyGay Clowns and Matching Tattoos with King Riss ObolenskyWhat could bring more 'queer joy' than a gay clown?Here's a collaborative performance piece on the theme of friendship (otherwise called 'a chat') with the drag king, clown, and best friend Riss Obolensky (aka King Herod). This episode is about how much we hate sincerity, and, sincerely, how much we love each other.Whether you're into The Artist's Way or MUNA's The One That Got Away, spirituality or Gossip Girl, soberness or being a little freak on the dance floor (not the sexy kind), I hope you enjoy this mischief. Riss and...
2024-03-2035 min
Queer Joy: being gay as in happyNothing Gayer than a Tesco Meal Deal with memoirist Harry NicholasThe writer of A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar on beautifully mundane queer joys – from meal deals, team sports (/the drinks afterwards), Doctor Who, to... yes… gay sex.Harry and I each work on both the author and editor sides of publishing queer books, so we also enjoy fanboying the writings of Lou Sullivan, Travis Alabanza, and Virginia Woolf!From YOU, listener, I seek recommendations of beginner queer team sports you love 2 play. My priority is, of course, good vibes. Shout-outs to: 🏉 Pride in Touch ⚽️ TRUK...
2024-03-0636 min
Queer Joy: being gay as in happyLiberate Greedy Bisexuals! with icon Bethany Rutter"Queer joy is liberation – it's when being queer is something you’re not scared of or worried about anymore. You get to be in the fun bit."The chic author, fashion blogger and cat-cheerleader Bethany Rutter becomes my own professional oracle – and can be yours too! Gain abundant advice for your dating era, how to run a queer dance night, the surprising challenges of writing a queer character who's already happy, and the best films for bisexual brats.Bethany Shouts Out to:☀️ Her now defunct club night Dancing On My Own🎥 The...
2024-02-2135 min
Queer Joy: being gay as in happyYearning and Trash Lesbians <3 with author Tasha SuriThe phenomenal award-winning fantasy author Tasha Suri on the queer joys of yearning, trash lesbians, and monster fucking. We ask hard-hitting questions like: how queer is your D&D character? What type of gay cowboy are you? And when will someone step up and write an essay on Tasha’s work through the lens of kink power exchange? "Queer Joy is the empowering and healing joy you take in the things that straight people tell you you shouldn’t take joy in."Tasha recommends:😈 Queer revenge fantasy and Monster Fucking: The Woods Al...
2024-02-2140 min
Queer Joy: being gay as in happyAre you a Mummy, Daddy, or Baby? with writer Laura Kay'What is the gayest vape flavour?', 'Where are you on the U-Haul spectrum?' and, urgently, 'Are you a Mummy, Daddy, or Baby?'In this first episode of the QueeJo podcast, I live, laugh, lol with the very gorgeous Laura Kay – who writes gay books by dummies for dummies. She launches her own rival podcast, Queer Sad, challenges me to have a snog in a cinema, and reveals once and for all whether she and I are actually in a romantic relationship.‘Queer Joy means that if I could choose to be q...
2024-02-2138 min
Queer Joy: being gay as in happyTrailer!Hello stranger! Wondering what the vibe is? Here's an aperitif.Get more Queer Joy in your life, click to follow the podcast!Spread the Queer Joy! 📸 Send in your Queer Joys on Instagram @lilyflindon or email queerjoypod[@]gmail.com !🌟 Had a nice time? Please please tell your friends, and give a starry review !!🥂 Buy the pod a little treat, or become a member of the QueeJo community at https://ko-fi.com/queerjoy !!!*Thanks to my friend Tom Collingwood for helping create the logo! ...
2024-02-1301 min
Queer LitQueer Space Special: “Gay’s The Word” with Erica GillinghamThis extraordinary queer space special makes all my dreams come true: I get to hang out with Erica Gillingham in the basement of Gay’s The Word! Sitting between towering stacks of books and boxes of GTW archival material that goes back all the way to the birth of this magnificent LGBTQ+ bookshop in January 1979, Erica shares some highlights of the turbulent and inspiring history of GTW. She also talks about what is happening in queer publishing right now and shares some of her favourite queer YA and romance authors. Hearing Erica speak about the way in which GTW and it...
2023-12-0523 min
Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Romance, LGBTQ+My Own Worst Enemy by Lily LindonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Own Worst Enemy Author: Lily Lindon Narrator: Toto Bruin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 27, 2023 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: She's her own worst enemy. So why does she fancy people who look like her? In the new fun, fresh and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from Lily Lindon, opposites really don't attract. Overthinker and recent drama-school graduate Emmy Clooney (no relation) will do anything to be a successful actor, even if it means getting typecast in the tiny roles available to a 'mid-twenties short-haired lesbian'. But...
2023-07-2803 min
Free Audiobook: Because Folding Laundry Is More Exciting With a StoryMy Own Worst Enemy - Lily LindonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: My Own Worst EnemyAuthor: Lily LindonNarrator: Toto BruinFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10:22:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 07-27-2023Publisher: W.F. HowesGenres: Romance, LGBTQSummary:She's her own worst enemy. So why does she fancy people who look like her? In the new fun, fresh and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from Lily Lindon, opposites really don't attract. Overthinker and recent drama-school graduate Emmy Clooney (no relation) will do anything to be...
2023-07-2810h 22
Book Reccos: Between the PagesPride Month Book ReccosIn today's epsiode, Jess and Lauren offer a handful of reccos for pride month across a few genres in the hope that you can find something to read, whichever genre you prefer.Some of the Books Mentioned in this Episode: Own Worst Enemy by Lily Lindon, Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf, City of GIrls by Elizabeth Gilbert, Young Mungo and Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, Mrs S by K Patrick, Page Boy by Elliot PageBook Reccos Website, Shop & newsletter: Don't forget to...
2023-05-3126 min
The Brighton Book ClubLily Lindon, Talia Hibbert, Amy Lavelle, Joe Bedford and Amita MurrayThis month we talk to Lily Lindon about her new queer rom com MY OWN WORST ENEMY, to Talia Hibbert about her new YA rom com HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS AND UNFAIRLY CUTE as well as her appearance at Brighton Book Festival on June 24. We also speak to two Brighton writers, Amy Lavelle and Joe Bedford about their new books, HOME SWEET HOME and A BAD DECADE FOR GOOD PEOPLE. We also speak to the author of this month’s book club book – Amita Murray – about her new novel UNLADYLIKE LESSONS IN LOVE.
Our next book club book is Claire Fuller...
2023-05-271h 00
Better WordsArthurian legend meets queer YA romance with Lex CroucherLex Croucher grew up in Surrey, reading a lot of books and making friends with strangers on the internet, and now lives in London with an elderly cat. With a background in social media, Lex now writes historical-ish rom-coms for adults (Reputation, Infamous) and historical fantasy rom-coms for teenagers. We're discussing their debut YA novel, Gwen and Art Are Not in Love.Our interview begins at 34:00We've got a Substack publication now! On the last day of the month, we share recommendations for two things we reckon you should read/watch/listen to. The beauty o...
2023-05-251h 47
podDIVALily LindonIf you’re looking for fun, queer literature, look no further than Lily Lindon.Self-proclaimed butch and professional bisexual, Lily is the author of fabulously funny and best-selling queer rom-coms – Double Booked and the upcoming My Own Worst Enemy.In this lively, energetic and giggly interview with DIVA Magazine’s Georgia Dimdore-Miles, Lily reveals her love for rivalry, for butch-ness and for comedy. It’s also a masterclass in flirtation!Lily Lindon’s second novel My Own Worst Enemy is published June 8thWant to see more o...
2023-05-2429 min
Better WordsThe romance of French cuisine with Karina MayKarina May is a Sydney-based former magazine journalist turned digital marketer, avid reader and writer of lively love stories that span the globe. When she's not dreaming up her next meet-cute, you'll likely find her rescuing her paperback from the bath, or out guzzling espresso martinis in the name of research. We're discussing her new novel, Duck á l'Orange for Breakfast. Our interview begins at 21:00We've got a Substack publication now! On the last day of the month, we share recommendations for two things we reckon you should read/watch/listen to. The beauty of Substack is...
2023-05-091h 07
London Writers' Salon#042: Laura Kay — Writing Romantic Comedy, Creating Relatable Characters and Queer Visibility in FictionNovelist Laura Kay (@lauraelizakay) on her writing journey from journalism to novels, how her writing career was launched from Penguin WriteNow programme, queer visibility in fiction, writing sex scenes and how Laura writes and edits her romantic comedies. Laura also talks about tackling writer’s block with an ‘ideas walk’, the reality of forging a career as a full-time writer and her approach to dealing with critics and feedback.*ABOUT LAURA KAYLaura Kay is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in Diva Magazine, The Guardian, Stylist, The Metro, and more. Laura...
2023-01-1458 min
Better WordsThe Re-Read: Laura Kay and Danielle Wood (Minnie Darke)We're switching things up for Season 9: Welcome to The Re-Read. In this mini-season, we check in with a selection of past guests to find out what they've been working on. Expect lots of books, some babies and plenty of chat. This season works a little differently, without book recommendations from us at the start of each episode. But we promise you'll still get plenty of books added to your TBR!Interview 1: Laura KayLaura Kay is a journalist and editor. She has an MA in American History from the University of Sheffield, and...
2022-12-2856 minThe Brighton Book ClubThe Kemptown Bookshop, Lily Lindon, Cate Quinn and Chloe TimmsWe are back from our summer break with a jam-packed show. We speak to the new owner of Kemptown Bookshop, Cathy Haywood, about her plans for the shop as well as YA specialist, Remony Hart about her plans for the new YA and kids’ section. Caitlin Gleeson speaks to Lily Lindon about her new book DOUBLE BOOKED, and I interviewed Cate Quinn about one of this summer’s hottest thriller, BLOOD SISTERS.
We are also joined by the author of this month’s book club Chloe Timms’ to talk about her wonderful novel, THE SEAWOMEN. The Book Club is also avai...
2022-07-2300 min
The Write and Wrong Podcast | Writing Tips, Book Publishing and Literary Agents76 Lily Lindon | Rom-com Author and EditorRomantic comedy author and editor, Lily Lindon, joins Jamie this week to tell us all about her debut novel, Double Booked, a bisexual rom-com. Turns out even experienced editors experience all of the same woes and stresses that other debut novelists go through! Lily goes on to tell us all about her work at Penguin Random House's Vintage before she moved over to Novelry. If you hang around to the end you will be treated to the two of us waxing lyrical about sausage dogs, Terry Pratchett and Lily's hypothetical book that answers the questions of life the universe...
2022-07-1140 min
Free Audiobook: Because Folding Laundry Is More Exciting With a StoryDouble Booked - Lily LindonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Double BookedAuthor: Lily LindonNarrator: Toto BruinFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10:05:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 06-09-2022Publisher: W.F. HowesGenres: Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+Summary:Gina is about to marry her boyfriend.
George is about to join a cult lesbian pop band.
Gina and George are the same person.
No wonder Georgina is DOUBLE BOOKED
A fresh, timely and genuinely laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a sensible young woman in a long-term...
2022-06-0910h 05
WIT LIT: the funny books podcastBOOKSELLING & STAND-UP with Ben Pope, comedian and bookshop manager“’Humour’ is maybe the worst word in the English language”
Wit Lit is a podcast about funny books - so who better to hear from than a comedian who is also a bookseller? That’s right, it’s only Mr BEN POPE - crowd favourite and manager at The Review Bookshop in Peckham - recommending his favourite funny books.
We discuss silly book titles, writer’s voices versus comedian’s personas, how the brain can short-circuit ‘funny’ and ‘good’, and how War and Peace is just lots and lots of Tweets lined up next to each other. ...
2021-09-0655 min
WIT LIT: the funny books podcastFUNNY GAYS! with Laura Kay, author of The Split‘Queer people are simply the funniest people’
To end Pride Month with an amusing bang, and to assure everyone that you ARE allowed to still read gay books even if it’s not June, I’m happily joined by Laura Kay, author of THE SPLIT. She recommends her top five funny gay books, we talk about her own writing process and comedy inspirations, and yes, we talk about her cats. Listen in or you’re a homophobe xo
Laura recommends:
ONE LAST STOP - Casey McQuiston
IN AT THE DEEP END - Kate Davies
LESS - And...
2021-06-3037 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastChick Lit Wit: Helly Acton and Hannah ToveyAuthor of The Shelf Helly Acton and Hannah Tovey, author of The Education of Ivy Edwards, talk about their relatable, entertaining, and emotionally messy everywoman characters. We talk about the particular condition of being a single thirty-year-old woman in our modern society — about funny break-ups, depressing weddings, and balancing love with independence. We also talk about their writing process: Second Book Syndrome, the personal significance of writing funny dialogue, and the vital importance of watching The Office on repeat. Hope you enjoy!
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2021-05-2135 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastBad Form’s Amy Baxter: Funny Essays‘When I read right now, I want to feel like I’m chatting to a friend, I want an easy giggle’ :)
Bad Form Literary Review’s founder and editor-in-chief Amy Baxter, who is also an Editorial Assistant at Penguin Random House (Michael Joseph), recommends her top funny books. They ended up being three books where funny women chat to you in warm, bitesize conversations -- perfect for our current de-socialised brains. Whether you’re looking for lightness and brevity in your reading, or books that will help ease you back into seeing real-life human friends again, hope you enjoy.
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2021-05-1031 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcast10 SHORT FUNNY BOOKS IN 10 MINUTES! (a solo show)All I want to read (/am able to read) at the moment are short, funny books. Wondered if you might be the same? So here I am, for the first time GUEST-LESS, recommending 10 of my favourite witty short stories, essay collections, scripts, picture books, and short novels. Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I am brief and recommend the 10 books in just 10 minutes! (Not including the intro and theme music lol.) WOW! FUN!
If you don't even have 10 minutes to listen to my voice, here's the list:
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2021-03-2215 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastROM-COMS! ft. Laura Jane Williams and Abigail MannHappy Galentine's, Happy Valentine's and indeed Happy Any Day! To celebrate all things lovely and funny, today's episode is a celebration of rom-coms.
I'm joined on my Zoom by two brilliant writers of funny love stories: Laura Jane Williams is the author of OUR STOP (the international 2019 hit), and two other novels, THE LOVE SQUARE (2020) and THE LUCKY ESCAPE (publishing June 2021). Abigail Mann is the author of THE LONELY FAJITA (winner of the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished Prize) and THE SISTER SURPRISE (publishing in March 2021).
Laura and Abigail conveniently have completely opposite methods...
2021-02-1345 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastStranger Times and Comedy Crime ft. Caimh McDonnell“Comedy crime sounds like it involves three clowns with a ladder they’re inexplicably bad at carrying trying to break into a pie factory. It doesn’t sound like there’s respect for the story.”
Wham!!! Welcome to Wit Lit Series 2!!!
Caimh McDonnell is a former stand-up comedian, prize-winning script-writer, and present full-time author, whose tenth book THE STRANGER TIMES is publishing on 14th Jan 2021. We talk about how stand-up gives an author good and bad habits, how to build a fictional world around your book, and how to describe the genre of a ‘funny paranormal k...
2021-01-1331 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastWitty Poetry (ft. Joanna Lee)What do you get if you cross poetry with a joke?
In this episode I'm joined by Joanna Lee: agent at Curtis Brown, poet, and poetry critic whose work has been featured in the Guardian, LRB, and White Review. We talk about the lack of diversity in poetry criticism, the relationship between humour and tragedy, brevity, and ridiculous metaphors.
NB: this was recorded before lockdown, and when I was in a phase of saying that everything I liked was 'omg so silly.' Please forgive me.
Wit Lit List:
Poetry
Therapist by Joe Dunthorne
Discipline by Jane Yeh
SPAM Zine...
2020-10-0122 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastComedy! Women! Print! Prize! (ft. Helen Lederer)“Humour is that last precious thing that distinguishes you from someone else.”
Actual comedian, author, and founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize Helen Lederer talks about writing wit, and how to enter for the 2020 prize. Meanwhile we talk about how Helen will literally die if she laughs too much, how groups of women are funnier to groups of men, and Helen writes the first line of my comedy novel.
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Find out more the CWIP Comedy Women in Print Prize here. There are unpublished and published novel categories, as well as a new gr...
2020-01-1542 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastREAD TERRY PRATCHETT (ft. Colin Rothwell)"How would you describe Pratchett’s sense of humour?"
"Oooh… ‘Really good?’"
I talk to improviser and BNOC Colin Rothwell about one of our absolute favourite witty authors: Terry Pratchett. Listen in for advice about where to start if you've never read any Pratchett before, general gushing about how great (and silly? But not silly?) his Discworld books are. I look forward to hearing from all you audiobook casting agents.
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Message me YOUR favourite funny books or quotes, I'd love to shout them out on the next episode! If you w...
2019-12-0828 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcast"I’m lost, and I need a wee." Silly Nature Writing (ft. Alice Attlee)*NOT ENDORSED BY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (YET)*
Sometimes nature writing is just silly people being silly in a pond. Walk and talk with nature writer, reader, and reviewer Alice Attlee. Suitable whether you have never read any nature writing before, or you just like puns about air pollution.
Recorded in Highgate Woods on the hottest day of the year, so it even features an original nature soundscape playing live in the background! Hashtag calming, hashtag natural, hashtag there's also a few aeroplanes and an ice-cream van.
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BIG DOG BOOKS DISCUSSED:
WATERLOG by Roger ‘some kind of paternal figure’ Deakin (a.k.a. ’...
2019-11-2430 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastHow to Laugh When You're Depressed! (ft. Yaseen Kader)Comedy researcher Yaseen recommends two Lucy Ellmann novels — Sweet Desserts and Varying Degrees of Hopelessness — for their dark humour, catastophising characters, and failing relationships. Oh, and their brevity. Yes, the famous brevity of that novelist who would, about a week after this was recorded, be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with Ducks, Newburyport… her 1000-page epic.
CW/TW: depression, eating disorders, attempted suicide - but it IS gentle and funny I promise.
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BOOKS MENTIONED
- Sweet Desserts, and Varying Degrees of Hopelessness by Lucy Ellman - Sad Today, and The Pisces by Melis...
2019-11-1126 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcast"Less Shakespeare, More Lesbians" (ft. Billie Collins)Playwright and script reader Billie Collins talks about the best of funny plays. From Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, to Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, to a scene where a gal tries to ask someone on a date through the medium of fish. As a bonus, Billie explains how to be a lesbian on small town Tinder (with Pokemon metaphors, of course).
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Wit Lit plays mentioned this episode:
Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Cannibals, Rory Mullarkey
Sugar Baby, Alan Harris
Tom Wells (generally)
Anatomy of a Suicide, Alice Birch
Pamona, by Alistair McDowall
Square Go, G...
2019-10-2736 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastLet's Talk About Sex Books, Baby (ft. Leena Norms)I talk to book activist, cool content creator, and stud muffin Leena Norms about silly sex self-help books. Includes 101 tips to make your wife love you, a quiz about what to call your vagina, and erotic fan-fic involving a certain British political figure...
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Get in touch if you have recommendations of funny books, quotes, or want to be a guest! You can contact me all official-like @witlitpod or @witlitpodcast, or all unofficial-like on twitter @lily_lindon or instagram @bookymcbookface.
(If you...
2019-10-1238 minWIT LIT: the funny books podcastWIT LIT: TrailerComedians, writers, and publishing people recommend the best of witty literature. Take reading less seriously.
This trailer fts. the dulcet tones of Leena Norms, Billie Collins, Yaseen Kader, Alice Attlee, Colin Rothwell, and your host, Lily Lindon.
2019-10-0601 min