Who is Amy Spencer?

By day, I’m a journalist, relationship expert and sometime radio show host. I’ve written celebrity profiles, lifestyle features and relationship pieces for Glamour, Cosmopolitan, In Style, Real Simple, The New York Post, Match.com, Harper’s Bazaar, and many, many more. (You can find archives of my articles and other stuff I’ve done on my web site.) By night, I’m an avid viewer of Top Chef—make that all reality foodie competition shows—with an almost fanatical devotion to popcorn.

I spent the last decade single as all get-out, screwing up more seating charts than I care to admit. (”Sure, of course, I’ll sit with your grandmother and your teenage cousins.”) Then one day, I decided I was ready for a relationship. Most days I was happy, hopeful and owning my freedom. But I was also spending a few too many nights curled up on my couch wondering why—oh, why?—the whole world was paired up and I couldn’t seem to find a single cute and decent soul to love me.

Well, I finally found my answer—and the love of my life—using my homegrown secret of dating optimism. And now, because there are too many beautiful, kick-ass women out there wondering what’s taking their love so dang long, too, I want to pass some of that positivity onto you!

My full guide to finding your other half will be on shelves in February 2010, when my book, Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match, will be published by Running Press. In the meantime, take a few doses of optimism when you need it, so you’ll feel more positive than you’ve ever been about the great love you’re meant to have!

And if you have any questions or comments about your life or you have a popcorn recipe I should absolutely try, please email me. Use the button at the right that says “Email Amy” or hit me up at (ready for the hieroglyphics?) info at amy hyphen spencer dot com. I’d love to hear from you!