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Alyson Mead attended Boston College, the Slade School of Art in London, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has worked in publishing as an editor and ghostwriter, and in film development at New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures, Village Roadshow, and the Buena Vista Motion Picture Group. She has also produced a documentary on mandated medical care, featuring Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon. Her plays have been staged at Off-Off Broadway and regional theaters around the country.
Alyson's fiction, essays and articles have appeared in over thirty publications, including Salon, In These Times, Bitch, BUST, Whole Life Times, Punk Planet, MSN, The Sun, AOL's That's Fit, Tapestry, Stylus, Clackamas Literary Review, and the New York Daily News, among others. She has received the Columbine Award for Screenwriting, the Roy W. Dean Filmmaking Grant, and awards from Writer’s Digest and USA Book News.
She's also the bestselling author of Wake Up to Your Stories and Wake Up to Your Weight Loss, and has toured across the country teaching meditation and giving workshops on a variety of healing topics, including manifestation and the development of a personal narrative practice. Her entrepreneurial spirit also helped to launch the Write It Off Club, an online community that helps people use sane, holistic methods to reduce reactivity and promote healthy weight loss.
Psychic since childhood, Alyson has been reading people since the age of 19, and has spent the intervening years honing her abilities with certifications at the highest levels in astrology, Reiki, Matrix Energetics, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and sound healing. These days, she provides humorous and forthright readings and intuitive healing sessions as the Sassy Psychic (http://www.sassypsychic.com), serving celebrities, sports figures, and people from all walks of life.
Her new book, Searching for Sassy: An L.A. Phone Psychic's Tales of Life, Lust & Love, won Hay House's Book-to-Screen Pitchfest in New York, which garnered interest from Hollywood and resulted in a deal with the producers of USA Network's PSYCH, to develop the book for television.
Praise for Searching for Sassy:
"If someone just came up with the idea of a wildly entertaining story about relationships with a dollop of psychic overlay and turned that idea into a tightly woven novel, that would be reason enough to pick up the book and read. The fact that SEARCHING FOR SASSY: An L.A. Phone Psychic's Tales of Life, Lust & Love is based on the real experiences of the writer Alyson Mead, giving the story a sense of credibility in addition to creativity should push this book onto the best sellers list."
-- Grady Harp, Amazon Top 10 Reviewer
"Alyson Mead's remarkable new book, jammed-pack full of whacky, wonderful self-disclosures, will leave you smiling and shaking your head. Please take time to put it down. Do not read it all at once the way I did. Savor every word instead. Share her pathos. Feel her humanity. Get clear. There IS at least one sassy psychic graced by God or the universe to see your future. Alyson, a gifted author, is living proof."
-- Judy Krings, Ph.D., CMC, PCC
"Need a sizzling summer read? Horoscope.com contributing writer Alyson Mead's hot new novel about love, loss and the unique challenges of being a psychic is a must-have book!"
-- Horoscope.com
"This was hilarious and intr'guing all at the same time. You always wonder what it's like to see into the personal life of a psychic, and when you read this witty bittersweet memoir you'll find that it's oddly ordinary yet extraordinary. This was a fantastic book!"
-- Jordyn, GoodReads reader