Mighty Gorgeous

“Amy Ferris is an audacious writer . . . both funny and heartbreaking, gut-wrenching and uplifting all in the same breath. Through her honest storytelling she challenges us to embrace ourselves, be grateful for our mistakes and 'wear our scars like stardust'. She does exactly that in this deliciously clever and deeply moving memoir. So read it. Laugh. Cry. Be uplifted. This is a mighty gorgeous book.”

—Marta Kauffman, Co-Creator (Writer, Producer): Friends, Grace and Frankie 

“Amy Ferris holds nothing back in this powerful work of truthtelling. Without restraint, she invites the reader to climb all the way into her soul and see the world through her lens. The result? An equally heart-wrenching and heart-warming work of longing, loss, regret, surrender, forgiveness, and … love—in all its mixed-up, messy, magnificent forms. A must-read for anyone who has ever been wrecked by life and then woven themselves back together again by choosing to love and be loved.”

—Julie Cantrell New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of Perennials

“When it comes to unearthing the shimmering diamonds in the messy chaos of life, you’ve gotta turn to Amy Ferris. Her small book is all about big big ideas on how to turn up the volume on what you know you really need and deserve. A warm, radically smart, and funny guidebook to life, love, money, work, estrangements (and throw in a stint as a topless dancer), Ferris’s book should be required reading for anyone who has a heart.”

—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Pictures of You and With or Without You

“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  

“In her uniquely fierce and tender voice, Ferris shares her stories—her truth—with humor and breathtaking honesty as she offers up a brilliant manifesto inviting us to embrace all the messiness of being human. Ferris reminds us that we can pull ourselves out of the wreckage of our bad choices and discover our greatness beneath layers of judgment, especially our own. She wakes us up to the power of love to heal our wounded hearts, and to wear our scars like stardust. You will want to keep this book on your nightstand to read again and again.” 

—Lisa Lucca, author of Ashes to Ink

—Well-connected author: Author is a succesful screenwriter and author with extensive connections within both the literary and entertainment world; she will leverage those connections to promote this book.

—Crosses two popular genres: The book successfully and elegantly blends memoir and self-help, both genres that contribute to the largest category of books in the US by both volume and sales revenue (especially self-help, a genre that has experienced an explosive growth over the last decade and is expected to increase by 5% year over year through 2027). 

—Timely themes: Women all around the world have been waking up and exercising their personal power and agency like never before in recent years, and this pandemic has only accelerated that trend; this book is the kind of inspiring resource this demographic is looking for.