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Why are we so determined to be loved rather than to love ourselves? Why is it so hard to forgive our imperfections and remember that we're extraordinary? Why are we so willing to listen to others' voices when our own voice is right here, screaming to be heard?
Full of the stories that have brought her to this moment and the accompanying wisdom those experiences have lent her, Mighty Gorgeous is Amy Ferris's answer-tender, fierce, irreverent-to these questions, and much more.
Why? Because we are not on this earth to master suffering; we are here to create magic. Because perfection is overrated; all of our flaws and imperfections and scars are our beauty marks. Because all women deserve to speak their truth, to be heard and seen, to awaken to their own greatness. Because life is so very hard and so very brutal at times, bitter and cruel and excruciatingly difficult to navigate, and sometimes we need a light to guide us through that darkness. Because it's time for us all to come home to ourselves-and Amy's here to cheerlead you all the way to your own front door.
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About the Author
Amy Ferris is an author, editor, screenwriter & playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis (Seal Press), was adapted into an Off-Broadway play in 2012. As a screenwriter, she wrote the film Mr. Wonderful and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film Funny Valentines. Her YA book a greater goode was published by Houghton Mifflin. As an editor, she curated Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue (Seal Press) and coedited the anthology Dancing at The Shame Prom (Seal Press). She recently coauthored the book Old School Love (HarperCollins) with Rev Run of Run-DMC fame. In 2019, she was named one of Women's eNews's "21 Leaders for the 21st Century," and in 2021 she was a recipient of NextTribe's "Women of the Year." Amy is a cofounder of the Milford Readers and Writers Festival and the director of The Story Summit Writer's School.
Reviews
"In Ferris's powerful and brilliant new book, Mighty Gorgeous, she once again demonstrates an uncanny and extraordinary ability to grab you by the heart and take your breath away, like no one else. Each vignette glitters with truth, honesty, inspiration, and a mind-bending understanding of how life is not about either/or but a complex constellation of experience, scars, joys and hope. Her words build epic revelations from life's most intimate and private details, and ring with abiding truths that will guide and comfort you for the rest of your life." -Jessica Keener, author of Night Swim and Strangers in Budapest
Book Information
ISBN 9781647425531
Author Amy Ferris
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint She Writes Press
Publisher She Writes Press
Full of the stories that have brought her to this moment and the accompanying wisdom those experiences have lent her, Mighty Gorgeous is Amy Ferris's answer-tender, fierce, irreverent-to these questions, and much more.
Why? Because we are not on this earth to master suffering; we are here to create magic. Because perfection is overrated; all of our flaws and imperfections and scars are our beauty marks. Because all women deserve to speak their truth, to be heard and seen, to awaken to their own greatness. Because life is so very hard and so very brutal at times, bitter and cruel and excruciatingly difficult to navigate, and sometimes we need a light to guide us through that darkness. Because it's time for us all to come home to ourselves-and Amy's here to cheerlead you all the way to your own front door.
Will hire a publicist
About the Author
Amy Ferris is an author, editor, screenwriter & playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis (Seal Press), was adapted into an Off-Broadway play in 2012. As a screenwriter, she wrote the film Mr. Wonderful and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film Funny Valentines. Her YA book a greater goode was published by Houghton Mifflin. As an editor, she curated Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue (Seal Press) and coedited the anthology Dancing at The Shame Prom (Seal Press). She recently coauthored the book Old School Love (HarperCollins) with Rev Run of Run-DMC fame. In 2019, she was named one of Women's eNews's "21 Leaders for the 21st Century," and in 2021 she was a recipient of NextTribe's "Women of the Year." Amy is a cofounder of the Milford Readers and Writers Festival and the director of The Story Summit Writer's School.
Reviews
"In Ferris's powerful and brilliant new book, Mighty Gorgeous, she once again demonstrates an uncanny and extraordinary ability to grab you by the heart and take your breath away, like no one else. Each vignette glitters with truth, honesty, inspiration, and a mind-bending understanding of how life is not about either/or but a complex constellation of experience, scars, joys and hope. Her words build epic revelations from life's most intimate and private details, and ring with abiding truths that will guide and comfort you for the rest of your life." -Jessica Keener, author of Night Swim and Strangers in Budapest
Book Information
ISBN 9781647425531
Author Amy Ferris
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint She Writes Press
Publisher She Writes Press
