{"product_id":"year-of-yes-how-to-dance-it-out-stand-in-the-sun-and-be-your-own-person-1","title":"Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person","description":"\u003cp\u003e***AN INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER***\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this poignant, hilarious, and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood’s most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of \u003ci\u003eGrey’s Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eScandal\u003c\/i\u003e and executive producer of \u003ci\u003eHow to Get Away with Murder\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how saying YES changed her life—and how it can change yours too.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today: \u003ci\u003eGrey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder\u003c\/i\u003e. Her iconic characters—Meredith Grey, Cristina Yang, Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating—live boldly and speak their minds. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes, the mega talent who owns Thursday night television (#TGIT), is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could \u003ci\u003eavoid\u003c\/i\u003e public appearances? That she hugged walls at splashy parties and suffered panic attacks before media interviews so severe she remembered nothing afterward?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBefore her Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes was an expert at declining invitations others would leap to accept. With three children at home and three hit television shows on TV, it was easy to say that she was simply too busy. But in truth, she was also afraid. Afraid of cocktail party faux pas like chucking a chicken bone across a room; petrified of live television appearances where Shonda Rhimes could trip and fall and bleed out right there in front of a live studio audience; terrified of the difficult conversations that came so easily to her characters on-screen. In the \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e, Shonda’s introvert life revolved around burying herself in work, snuggling her children, and comforting herself with food.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd then, on Thanksgiving 2013, Shonda’s sister muttered something that was both a wake up and a call to arms: \u003ci\u003eYou never say yes to anything.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe comment sat like a grenade, until it detonated. Then Shonda, the youngest of six children from a supremely competitive family, knew she had to embrace the challenge: for one year, she would say YES to everything that scared her.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda’s life \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e her Year of Yes—from her nerdy, book-loving childhood creating imaginary friends to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her (like Cristina Yang, whose ultimate goal wasn’t marriage, and Cyrus Beene, who is a Republican \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003egay). And it chronicles her life \u003ci\u003eafter \u003c\/i\u003eher Year of Yes had begun—when Shonda forced herself out of the house and onto the stage, appearing on \u003ci\u003eJimmy Kimmel Live\u003c\/i\u003e, and giving the Dartmouth Commencement speech; when she learned to say yes to her health, yes to play and she stepped out of the shadows and into the sun; when she learned to explore, empower, applaud, and love her truest self. Yes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis wildly candid and compulsively readable book reveals how the mega talented Shonda Rhimes, an unexpected introvert, achieved badassery worthy of a Shondaland character. And how you can, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781476777092\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rhimes, Shonda","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.39","offer_id":48007967146161,"sku":"SB-1476777098-C4","price":1.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1476777098.jpg?v=1791334636","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/year-of-yes-how-to-dance-it-out-stand-in-the-sun-and-be-your-own-person-1","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}