Francine Jay pioneered the simple living movement with her best-selling book, The Joy of Less. She has sold more than 300,000 books on simple living, and her advice has been featured in the New York Times, House Beautiful, CNN, BBC, the TODAY show, The Chicago Tribune, El Pais, Elle Espana, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Spiegel, Dr. Oz's The Good Life, Lifehacker, Apartment Therapy, Grist, Consumerist, Reddit, and TreeHugger. The Joy of Less has sold nearly 160,000 copies, is being published worldwide in 21 countries, and was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year, Amazon's Best Books of April 2016, and as an Amazon Editors' Pick for Spring 2016.