New book alert! The Order of Things will be released on September 10…you can pre-order your book on Amazon here.

Join us for Book Club at Yellow Studio on Tuesday October 1 at 6:30pm. There will be lively discussion, questions posed and answered and time to connect with fellow YS Members. This is a zero pressure book club – didn’t quite finish the book? Come anyway.

Hosted by Fran Hauser & Emily Winograd Leonard (and we will have a very special guest via Zoom…the author herself, Sarah Gormley!)

Light refreshments will be available.

About the book:

What happens when a marketing executive leaves San Francisco to care for her dying mother on their family farm in Ohio? A Hallmark heroine would fall in love with her high school sweetheart during a snowstorm-but this is no Hallmark movie. Sarah Gormley spent most of her life trying to outrun the persistent self-loathing that plagued her from childhood, convinced that self-worth was something she had to earn by doing rather than being. When she returned to Salt Creek Farm at age forty-five, Gormley had no idea that detaching from the success she believed defined her, untangling the complicated relationship with her mother, and continuing the hard work of therapy would lead to a wildly transformed life. Told with exceptional candor and humor, The Order of Things is a story about how one woman learned to let go of the patterns of her past to create a future she never imagined. Ultimately, Gormley’s book is about hope, with a powerful message that will inspire you to think about the possibility of change in your own life.

About Sarah Gormley:

Sarah Gormley owns a contemporary art gallery, Sarah Gormley Gallery (SGG), in Columbus, Ohio that operates from the belief that original art can be a source of joy for everyone. She opened the gallery in 2019, 25 years after her grandmother gifted Sarah with her first piece of art when she graduated from DePauw University. Sarah’s undergraduate degree reinforced an early love for literature and writing, with a heavy sprinkling of the liberal arts fairy dust that teaches you how to think, analyze and articulate a clear point of view.

That foundation was rounded out by concentrations in marketing and operations at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Her marketing career included both agency work and in-house roles with global brands including IMAX, Martha Stewart, Girl Scouts of the USA and Adobe. Sarah was honored as one of 2015’s Forty Women to Watch Over 40, a list that celebrates women who are upending the perception that 40 is past your prime. She has also been featured in Forbes and The CMO Club.

In June of 2019, Gormley was selected to speak at her 25th class reunion at DePauw University. After she spoke, a woman Sarah had never met approached her and said, “You should write a book.” Turns out that woman was celebrated author Meg Kissinger, a fact Sarah learned only after she asked Meg if she might consider offering a praise quote for The Order of Things – because life is just funny that way.