Amanda Dodson Gremillion | Self-Publishing Review

An Interview with Amanda Dodson Gremillion: Author of Just Buy Her a Dress and She’ll Be Fine

Amanda Dodson Gremillion was born in Anniston, Al. She now lives in Calera, AL with her husband and high school sweetheart, Jay, their daughter, Aubrie and their two dogs Honey Girl and Cooper. Amanda graduated from Auburn University in 2003 with a Business/Marketing degree and has since worked mainly in Human Resources and Payroll after working in Inside Sales for a short time. She is now a preschool teacher.

She published her first book in 2012 about her personal experience with severe postpartum OCD, Anxiety and depression. In 2020, she had the book professionally edited and she republished it under […]

Review: Just Buy Her a Dress and She’ll Be Fine by Amanda Dodson Gremillion

The emotionally charged yet sensible treatise, Just Buy Her a Dress and She’ll Be Fine by Amanda Dodson Gremillion, is the moving story of postpartum depression and OCD as it played out in the author’s own life, and how that became a medium for guiding others.

Gremillion’s mental distress seemed to begin when she had her first child. She and her husband Jay had met in their early teens, courted for ten years, and married – happily, at first. Both wanted a child and when their daughter Aubrie Lynn was born, she was welcomed.

Soon afterwards, the problems set in. […]