If you haven’t yet snagged your copy of the Women’s Health September 2010 issue, I’ll help guide you to the best story in it. Which, oh look, just happens to be mine! Well, I think it’s pretty good anyway.

My story, “The Attitude That Attracts Love” is an important reminder for singles that nothing is more important than feeling good about yourself and your life and passing along that great energy on your dates.

Read the story here at WomensHealthMag.com.

—Amy

I just did a wonderful radio show appearance with Gloria MacDonald—and I say wonderful because she was! She’s a terrific host, full of great dating insights and ideas for helping singles find the right partner. We chatted for an hour about my book Meeting Your Half-Orange, and how the neuroscience and psychology of dating optimism can help bring you your other half.

The show went live on radio, but was also captured by WebTalkRadio, which means you can listen to our radio chat anytime! Here’s the link to listen through Gloria’s site, Secrets of Dating and Relationship Success, as well as through our chat on WebTalkRadio.net.

If you’re single, ready for a relationship and could use some useful, unique and actionable dating tips to take you to the next loving level, this show could be the tool to get you there. What a joy talking with Gloria, I hope we can chat again—and I’ll let you know if we do!

—Amy

As if I didn’t love the Sunset Marquis Hotel in L.A. enough, the hotel is now offering an amazing discount hotel/spa package based on my book, Meeting Your Half-Orange. The “Operation Optimism” package is called  ”The Orange Buzz” and includes all sorts of goodies, from a mani/pedi and facial in the spa to a gym pass and at-pool goodies, to a signed copy of my book and a 30-minute phone session with me!

You can get all the details here at the Sunset Marquis Orange Buzz Package. Book it now!

If you need a good reason for a getaway to experience a little R&R (reading and relaxation), this is a perfect way to get your Orange Buzz off to a great start!

—Amy

It’s been another thrilling couple of weeks for my iPhone App, Half-Orange Optimisms, which can be used as a companion tool for my book Meeting Your Half-Orange. Not only was it Featured on Apple’s App store a couple weeks back, but it’s now been bumped up to “What’s Hot” status!

If you haven’t checked out the App, be sure to. You don’t even need the book to appreciate it. You just shake the phone, and an orange swirls around like a much happier Magic Eight Ball, and then gives you an Optimism to help you flip your attitude a bit more positively for the moments you really need it. I mean, I know it’s hot, Apple knows it’s hot, and I can only hope you’ll feel the same way!

—Amy

I had to smile yesterday when I saw this July 2010 cover of Real Simple magazine.

I love the mag, especially since my former Glamour-ites took the helm a few years ago. And the way I see it, any story about uplifting your mood orange-style is just helping spread the Meeting Your Half-Orange message!

If you want a half-orange in your life—or if you want a half-orange kind of life—turn to your optimism, up your mood, and go out there and get it! Energize your life and your love life will come charging after.

And any time you need a reminder, just turn to the magazine rack in your local check-out line for a little orange buzz.

—Amy

Today’s the day for the FREE Girls’ Night In Telechat with Kira Sabin & YourTango! Have you signed up yet? Do yourself a big dating favor, and sign up now. The one-hour call at 9 p.m. EST (6 p.m. Pacific) will get you rolling toward your own half-orange in a big bold way!

We’ll talk about:

1. How the science behind the optimism will change your life. Thinking positively feels great, but every once in a while, you can get to the place I once reached: “What the hell’s the point? I’ve been cheery about this whole dating thing and it’s gotten me nothing. I give up!” Well, thanks to the recent scientific discovery of neuroplasticity, we now know that our thoughts have a mind-changing effect on the neural activity and structure of our emotional brains. I’ll explain how this works, so you won’t think “What’s the point?” again. Instead, you’ll be driven to change your thoughts to change your dating life forever.

2. How to specifically “choose your orange seed.” You want an awesomely wonderful relationship. But are you asking for it in the right way? I’ll tell you how you might be asking for your right relationship in the wrong way, and exactly how to ask for what you truly want and feel empowered to get it.

3.  How to create the “orange buzz.” Feeling positive is one thing. But working up an emotionally charged orange buzz to “feed your seed”—that’s what’s going to turn you into a knock-‘em-dead relationship magnet. The orange buzz is the magic behind attracting your other half. When you learn how to create your orange buzz, you’ll literally become the relaxed, happy, glowing, confident person now that you want to feel in your dream relationship later. In fact, you’ll be so buzzing, your friends will ask, “What’sdifferent about you?” Well, what’s different is that you’ll feel more amazing about yourself and your future relationship than you ever have before—and that’s exactly what’s going to naturally draw the right person straight to you. So let’s get buzzing!

4. …and more!

And if you sign up NOW, you’ll be eligible to win FREE gifts from Bath and Body Works, and take a big step toward the love of your life!

xo

Amy

It was super fun to see my book selling on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble of course. But I still get a kick when I see that my book is on sale in other countries, in a “Wow, it made it all the way over there?” kind of way. Here’s a recent review of the book in the European store Foyles, which made it onto their current list of Mind Body Spirit faves:

Meeting Your Half-Orange at Foyles

Thanks for the foreign (sales) aid!

—Amy

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a friend telling you JUST what you needed to hear before a big date? Or right after a bummer one? Or first thing in the morning when you’re having a bad hair day and can’t seem to shake your mood? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little nudge of optimism? Well, you know what I’m going to say here…now you can!

In the hopes of passing along positivity in a new way to those of you who have iPhones, I’ve created an iPhone App called Half-Orange Optimisms that launches today, March 18th!

It’s a collection of 100 original Optimistic quotes I’ve come up with to give you a boost about yourself, your mood, your dating life and your life as a whole. Like a Fortune Cookie meets a Magic 8-Ball Meets Your Crazy Dating Life, you just shake the phone, and the 3-D spinning orange will reveal…

…a few cool words of happy dating wisdom. I’ll be updating the App regularly with brand-new phrases and tips, so it’ll always be full of some fresh, healthy positive advice.

I know I’m not perfect about updating my blog every day. And sometimes I don’t get around to Tweeting for a few days at a time either. So I thought this would be a good way to help you ralley when you need it. You know you have optimism in you, and I know you have it in you, but the iPhone App will just help squeeze it out of you when you want it most.

And look, when you upload it to your phone, it looks like this rad little orange on your screen!

I’d be honored if you deem it fun and useful enough to download it to your phone. Consider it the best love attitude investment you could get yourself this year.

Big iPhone love,

Amy

I’ve been so busy lately working to get the word out on my book, Meeting Your Half-Orange (buy it here on Amazon.com!) and you can see all the reviews and press the book has gotten at the Meeting Your Half-Orange News & Reviews page. Some of the best lately:

On Saturday, February 13th, I appeared on the CBS Early Show with Chris and Erica, along with authors Lori Gottlieb (“Marry Him”) and Anna David (“Bought”) to talk about whether settling is a wise move for women looking for love. My take? Nuh-uh, no way. I’m working on getting that interview up on my site.

Glamour magazine featured a 2-page story on the book, the first page of which is here (to see the second, pick up the magazine’s March 2010 issue!):

Cosmopolitan U.K. magazine also wrote about the book in their February 2010 issue:

And during a major radio media tour the week of February 9th, I’ve uploaded two of the shows I appeared on, which you can listen to here: The Dating Optimist: Amy on the Radio.

Of course you can keep up with more about the book on its website meetingyourhalforange.com, and get a daily dose of positivity at my site TheDatingOptimist.com. But the greatest joy comes, of course, from reading the book itself. Duh.

—Amy