Amy in Retrograde

Name: Amy in Retrograde
Author: https://www.simonandschuster.biz/authors/Amy-Ferris/250470631
ISBN: 9781943876976

Desperately Seeking Rewiring

By Amy Ferris

Foreword by Marta F. Kauffman

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About The Book

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.

That didn’t work out.

From 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.

Like 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&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.

A wickedly funny memoir about seeking answers everywhere when they all reside within oneself.

Foreword by Marta Kauffman, producer and creator of Friends.

About The Author

Amy Ferris

Amy Ferris is an author, a writer, a screenwriter, an editor and a playwright. Her YA Novel, A greater Goode, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1999. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney, Confessions From a Midlife Crisis (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 Marrying George Clooney and it is planned to be staged in 2026.

Amy has written for both the small screen (TV) and the big screen (Feature Films). As a screenwriter, she co-wrote Mr. Wonderful (Director, Anthony Minghella) and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film, Funny Valentines (Director, Julie Dash).

As an editor, she curated Shades of Blue, Writers on Depression, Suicide and Feeling Blue (Seal Press), and co-edited the anthology, Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press). Her work has been included in numerous Anthologies. She was Guest Editor-in-Chief - creating “The Women’s Issue” - for two glossies.

She co-authored Old School Love (HarperCollins, 2020) with Rev Run of RUN DMC fame.

Amy serves on a variety of advisory boards supporting women and the Arts.

In 2019 Amy was named one of Women's eNews 21 LEADERS FOR THE 21st CENTURY, in 2021 she was a recipient of NextTribe's The 12 Women Who Changed the World, and in 2022, Amy was awarded and honored by the Thoughtful Book Festival as Inspirational Woman in Media.

Her memoir, Mighty Gorgeous: A Little Book About Messy Love, was published Fall 2023 and published by SheWritesPress).

Product Details

Publisher: G Editions (March 31, 2026)
Length: 120 pages
ISBN13: 9781943876976

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Raves and Reviews

"Amy's prose is lyrical and rhythmic and can only be compared to a song. She is truthful about her experiences. Her writing is quirky and unexpected. I love Amy's humor."

– Marta F. Kauffman, co-creator of Friends and Grace and Frankie, from the Foreword

Oh, the irresistible pull of psychics, seers, and horoscopes! National treasure (we ALL adore her) Amy Ferris’ fiercely funny book is a Valentine to those seeking spiritual solace, and like the very words she uses to describe all things “out there,” it’s a read that’s weird, amazing, and so wonderfully good. A fabulous travelogue towards hope and to your own inner knowing. I love this book so much.

– Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Days of Wonder

Absolutely nobody in America writes with the perfect combo that is Amy Ferris’s unique self-deprecation and skillful, riotous examination of any given social phenomenon. Skeptics will joyfully laugh out loud at Amy in Retrograde. (The Reverend Madame story alone makes this little tome worth the price of admission.)

Allow me to flex my own prodigious psychic abilities: I see a funny little book in your future. This book will arrive sometime in the spring of 2026. You will most likely read it in one sitting. You will laugh heartily. Afterward, you will feel an irrepressible urge to give a copy of Amy in Retrograde to every true believer you know, especially those born under the sign of Sagittarius. Do it. When the stars are aligned.

– Corie Skolnick, author of Orfan and America's Most Eligible

If David Sedaris and Nora Ephron had a love child, she would be Amy Ferris: witty, wise, hilarious.

– B.K. Jackson, writer, editor, and founder of Severance Magazine

“Amy Ferris is a force to be reckoned with and celebrated, too. She is a deep-sea diver of the human experience. In her refreshingly frank and engrossing memoir, her passionate search for the truth has led her to seek out psychics, some prescient, some not, and to understand that even seeking out clairvoyants is a sign of her larger, profound quest to understand herself, and her place in the world. Whether you believe in psychics, or not, you will believe in Amy the searcher for emotional truth, and be beguiled.”

– Thelma Adams, critic and bestselling author of The Last Woman Standing