Grace and Frankie


Product Details

Publisher: Flashpoint
Release Date: November 2, 2021
Formats: Hardcover, Ebook
ISBN: HC: 978-1-736324-38-7; EB: 978-1-954854-57-4
Page Count: 144

 

A Guide to Best-Friendship and Not Giving a Damn

Emilie Sandoz-Voyer, foreword by co-creators Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris

A celebration of best-friendship at any age and in all its messy glory, this handy guide provides a cheeky-yet-heartfelt look at life’s ups and downs through Grace and Frankie’s eyes.

You know that friend who completes you? The salty to your sweet, the crunchy to your smooth, the olives to your martini, the . . . anything edible to your fondue? The Grace to your Frankie, or the Frankie to your Grace? This book is for them.

Packed with lists, quizzes, recipes, quotes, and tips, as well as iconic images and fresh illustrations, this gorgeous guide is the perfect complement to an epic friendship. Each page helps you approach life with Grace and Frankie’s don’t-give-a-crap attitude, from coping with love and loss to starting new business ventures to fighting with (and forgiving) your best friend. Whether you or your best bud is a Grace or a Frankie—or hoping to be a little more of either—you can both find all the inspiration you need here.


About the Authors

Emilie Sandoz-Voyer is a writer, editor, and wrangler of small children. As an editor at Chronicle Books, Emilie worked on and wrote entertainment titles and stationery with an emphasis on humor, pop culture, and travel. Whether writing about cats, wookiees, or the indignities of pregnancy, Emilie delights in the silly and strange. When she’s not chasing after her two young kids or thinking about foods she’d like to eat, she works on a wide range of fiction, nonfiction, and illustrated book projects as the book development manager at Girl Friday Productions. She lives in Seattle with her family.

Marta Kauffman is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning television writer, producer, and showrunner behind the hit series Friends and Grace and Frankie. After graduating from Brandeis University, Kauffman got her big break alongside David Crane when their pilots Dream On (1990) and The Powers That Be (1992) were greenlit. The pair then launched Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions with Kevin Bright and became the trio that created iconic sitcom Friends. Marta’s expansive and successful career includes creator, director, EP, and showrunner credits on a number of television series, films, digital series, and projects. In 2015, Kauffman started her production company, Okay Goodnight, with industry veteran Robbie Tollin and Hannah KS Canter. Their first series, Grace and Frankie, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen, and Sam Waterston, premiered on Netflix in 2015 and is Netflix’s longest-running original ever. The series has received multiple Emmy and SAG nominations. In 2018, the company produced the documentary Seeing Allred, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and is currently available on Netflix. Kauffman has received a number of honors and awards including the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in television writing from the Writers Guild of America, the 2016 Outstanding Television Writer award at the 23rd annual Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference, the Kieser Award at the 44th Annual Humanitas Awards, and Variety’s TV Producers Impact Report for consecutive years in 2019 and 2020. Okay Goodnight and Kauffman currently have numerous projects in various stages of development at multiple networks and recently signed a first-look deal with 20th Television.

Howard J. Morris is the co-creator/co-showrunner of the Netflix hit Grace and Frankie. He’s also created two shows you’ve never heard of, but they were good (trust him): Holding The Baby on Fox and In Case of Emergency on ABC, which was on opposite American Idol during the “Sanjaya” craze, so Howard had to explain to his then six-year-old son why America would rather watch a boy from India sing poorly than watch Daddy’s show. It was an important lesson in show business that every six-year-old should learn. Howard’s most important show business lesson came when a studio executive called to tell him how much he loved his pilot, exclaiming, “It’s the most original thing I’ve ever read. It’s just like Dharma and Greg!”


Reviews

“Packed with humor and insight, this will be catnip for series fans and BFFs.” Publishers Weekly

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