{"product_id":"amy-in-retrograde-desperately-seeking-rewiring-9781943876976","title":"Amy in Retrograde: Desperately Seeking Rewiring","description":"When the first storefront psychic took her fifty dollars (all the money she had) and declared \"You will never find love,\" Amy Ferris swore she'd never see another spiritual adviser again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat didn't work out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Mary, the foulmouthed Hollywood psychic with a dagger tattoo and uncanny accuracy, to 900-number hotlines and past-life panic attacks, Amy Ferris spent enough money to buy a house in the South of France. With brutal honesty and laugh-out-loud humor, she chronicles her decades-long quest for rewiring from anyone claiming supernatural insight into her messy, uncertain life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike any addiction, it started small and spiraled quickly. From fifty-dollar palm readings to three-dollar-a-minute hotlines and bills requiring payment plans with AT\u0026amp;T, Amy chronicles her decades-long quest for cosmic answers. She survived psychics with gambling problems, regression therapists in newspaper-cluttered hovels, and the slow realization that she was funding other people's dreams while neglecting her own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wickedly funny memoir about seeking answers everywhere when they all reside within oneself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Foreword by Marta Kauffman, producer and creator of \u003ci\u003eFriends.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy Ferris is an author, a writer, a screenwriter, an editor and a playwright. Her YA Novel, \u003ci\u003eA greater Goode\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1999. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eMarrying George Clooney, Confessions From a Midlife Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e (Seal Press, 2008) was adapted into an Off-Broadway play in 2012. In 2026 Marta Kauffman will be directing her one-woman play, based on her memoir \u003ci\u003eMarrying George Clooney\u003c\/i\u003e and it is planned to be staged in 2026. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Amy has written for both the small screen (TV) and the big screen (Feature Films). As a screenwriter, she co-wrote \u003ci\u003eMr. Wonderful\u003c\/i\u003e (Director, Anthony Minghella) and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film, \u003ci\u003eFunny Valentines\u003c\/i\u003e (Director, Julie Dash). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As an editor, she curated \u003ci\u003eShades of Blue, Writers on Depression, Suicide and Feeling Blue\u003c\/i\u003e (Seal Press), and co-edited the anthology, \u003ci\u003eDancing at the Shame Prom\u003c\/i\u003e (Seal Press). Her work has been included in numerous Anthologies. She was Guest \u003ci\u003eEditor-in-Chief\u003c\/i\u003e - creating \"The Women's Issue\" - for two glossies. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She co-authored \u003ci\u003eOld School Love\u003c\/i\u003e (HarperCollins, 2020) with Rev Run of RUN DMC fame. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Amy serves on a variety of advisory boards supporting women and the Arts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2019 Amy was named one of Women's eNews \u003ci\u003e21 LEADERS FOR THE 21st CENTURY, \u003c\/i\u003e in 2021 she was a recipient of NextTribe's \u003ci\u003eThe 12 Women Who Changed the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 2022, Amy was awarded and honored by the Thoughtful Book Festival as \u003ci\u003eInspirational Woman in Media. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eMighty Gorgeous: A Little Book About Messy Love, \u003c\/i\u003e was published Fall 2023 and published by SheWritesPress). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarta F. Kauffman recently co-created the Netflix comedy \u003ci\u003eGrace and Frankie\u003c\/i\u003e. She was also the co-creator\/writer and producer of the television hit \u003ci\u003eFriends\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in television writing, and she was recently given an honorary doctorate by Brandeis University. She has served as trustee on the boards of CalArts, Big Sunday, and IKAR. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"G Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52141476315410,"sku":"9781943876976","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8434fc5f-dea0-452b-a133-0f97eee3f8fd.jpg?v=1774451434","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/amy-in-retrograde-desperately-seeking-rewiring-9781943876976","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}