2017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the entire year

The instant NY Times bestseller in the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her existence. “As fun to learn as Rhimes’s Television series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).

She’s the creator and manufacturer of a few of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. Her iconic individuals live boldly and speak their thoughts. Usually are not would suspect that about Yr of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and become Your Very own Person Shonda Rhimes can be an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she suffered anxiety attacks before media interviews?

With three children at home and three hit tv shows, it was easy for Shonda to state she was way too busy. However in truth, she was also scared. And then, over Thanksgiving dinner, her sister muttered something that was both a wake up and a contact to hands: You under no circumstances state yes to anything. Shonda understood she needed to embrace the task: for one year, she would say YES to anything that scared her.

This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda’s life before her Year of Yes-from her nerdy, book-loving childhood to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her. The reserve chronicles her lifestyle after her Season of Yes acquired begun-when Shonda pressured herself out of our home and onto the stage; when she discovered to explore, empower, applaud, and love her truest personal. Yes.

“Honest, organic, and revelatory” (The Washington Post), this wildly candid and compulsively readable book reveals how the mega talented Shonda Rhimes finally achieved badassery worthy of a Shondaland personality. Best of all, she “can help motivate even the most determined homebody to get out and try something new” (Chicago Tribune).