Dating Rocks!: The 21 Smartest Moves Women Make for Love
WHY DID YOU WRITE YOUR SECOND BOOK, DATING ROCKS!?After attending a publishing seminar, I decided to enroll in a one-year publicity campaign where I sent my book to various newsletters, Internet sites, radio stations, television producers, and magazine editors.One of my publicity leads got me a 10-minute appearance on the daytime television talk show The Other Half which starred Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, Dorian Gregory, and Mario Lopez.That appearance along with other media appearances eventually got the attention of iVillage.com, the largest women’s community on the Internet.  An editor for iVillage.com was in search of a man to become the host of their message board called "Ask Mr. Answer Man."I agreed to appear on that site and answer questions from women of all ages and around the world about men, dating, romance, and love.  My main function was to provide an honest male perspective on the issues of a woman’s everyday life.After doing this for over a year handling 10-15 questions a day, I began noticing certain patterns or consistent problems that women were experiencing.  So I started saving my responses as template instead of writing the same thing to future posters on the same general issue.I also began to stop using the fishing metaphor from my first book in my responses.  Since not every woman was into my Men Are Like Fish theme, I saw a place where I could offer my new understandings about women’s love challenges in a non-metaphor way.  The experience that I gained from being the Answer Man had given me the examples, experience, and feedback to venture into a new book.