CONTACT:  To schedule an interview, email Amy Hollingsworth at amyhollingsworth@yahoo.com.

It’s Not All Bad News!

Stocks fall, rise, then fall again.  The lead story – and the burning question – on the evening news is the same night after night:  Where are the jobs?  Never have we lived in such uncertain times.

But it’s not all bad news. “When jobs are no longer viable, workers are forced to reinvent themselves,” says one expert.  That can lead to a brighter and more fulfilling future. “Think about your ‘unique selling proposition.’ What are you better at than anyone else?”

 Most people don’t have a clue how to answer that question.  That’s where Amy Hollingsworth comes in.

AMY HOLLINGSWORTH is the bestselling author of The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers, based on her nine-year friendship with television’s Fred Rogers, and Gifts of Passage.  In her highly anticipated third book, HOLY CURIOSITY:  Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life, Hollingsworth draws from her background as a writer and a psychology professor to provide readers with practical ways to discover their passions, their natural bents, what it is in all the world they were uniquely created to do.  She is a lively and sought-after media guest who has completed over 150 interviews, appearing on FOX Morning News, WGN Morning News, and CBN News.

“Once I heard it put this way,” says Hollingsworth, whose college creativity class was required for business majors to graduate:  “'When people know what problem they can solve using the gifts that are unique to them in all the world, they often know what they need to do next.'” At a time when being creative is no longer a luxury but an essential to survival in the global economy of the 21^st century, more and more people are searching for ways to discover and cultivate their personal creativity.

It’s not just about reinventing yourself to make yourself more marketable, insists Hollingsworth, but to fully use your God-given creative gift – and everyone has one. In her new book she offers irrefutable proof that everyone is creative in some area and helps readers unlock the secret to their own creative gifts – and to a brighter future as well.

Endorsed by New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind and Drive

Daniel H. Pink:

 “Amy brings her uniquely lyrical style to the subject of creativity, its origins, and its purpose in our lives. This book is personal, practical, and poetic all in one.”

ABOUT AMY HOLLINGSWORTH

Amy Hollingsworth is the author of The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World’s Most Beloved Neighbor (2005), based on her nine-year friendship with television’s Fred Rogers, and Gifts of Passage: What the Dying Tell Us with the Gifts They Leave Behind (2008). She taught as an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she lives with her husband, Jeff, and their children, Jonathan and Emily. She has written for various magazines, including ParentLife, and was a writer for eight years for a national television program. She was named one of USA Today entertainment blog’s Top 100 People of 2010 for her influence on pop culture and featured in the documentary by MTV News VP/producer Benjamin Wagner titled “Mister Rogers & Me.”

Amy’s website:  www.amyhollingsworth.com.

SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR AMY HOLLINGSWORTH

1. Why is discovering and using your creative gifts especially important right now, during the current economic downturn?

2.  Do you offer a practical way for someone to discover his or her area of creativity?  Does your book include resources and inventories that will help me know without a doubt what my area of creativity is?

3.  What was the jarring wake-up call that made you realize there was something missing in your understanding of creativity, even though you were a college psychology professor teaching an upper-level course on creativity?

4.  You unlock the secret to creativity in a single passage of ancient literature. How did you happen upon that secret?

5.  Tell us how one of your greatest discoveries about creativity came out of a difficult diagnosis for your young daughter.

MORE ABOUT HOLY CURIOSITY

One passage, two verses, four words.

As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology, Amy Hollingsworth was on her way to becoming an “expert” on creativity. But just days before delivering her first professional seminar on the topic, she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact that she has missed a crucial element in understanding what true creativity is. Trying to unravel the dream, she soon discovers its contents reflected in a single passage of ancient literature. In this passage she sees for the first time creativity’s core, its spiritual roots, and as its meaning unfolds through months of spiritual reflection and study, it confirms the very scientific theories she’s been teaching all along. In fact, she discovers the underpinnings of the whole body of creativity research tucked into four small words penned centuries ago, kernels of truth that explode with a new depth of meaning. As she digs deeper, she uncovers for the reader God’s blueprint for cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life, through a practical outworking of her spiritual findings. In the end, both writer and reader come away with a new understanding of their own creative abilities—and a profound sense of what’s truly holy about holy curiosity.

HOLY CURIOSITY is available on Amazon.com.

 http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Curiosity-Cultivating-Creative-Everyday/dp/1610973313