USABookNews.com, October 17, 2006
"Award-Winning Finalist in the Self-Help/Relationships Category of the Best Books 2006 National Book Awards"
From the Author
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.
About the Author
Steve Nakamoto is a former human relations/communications instructor for Dale Carnegie & Associates and personal development/Life Mastery trainer for world-renowned motivation and peak-performance expert Tony Robbins. Steve has also spent several years as an international tour director taking clients on first-class vacation trips. With more than 200 cruises, Club Med vacations, Singles Ski Weeks, and escorted vacation tours, the author has had a lot of first-hand experience learning about men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures.
His first book, Men Are Like Fish: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Catching a Man, received Honorable Mention recognition in the Writers Digest 2000 Self-Published Non-Fiction Book Awards. That book went on to sell foreign language translation rights to Spain, Japan, Israel, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
Steve has appeared on over 220 radio and television talk shows including NBCs The Other Half starring Dick Clark, Mario Lopez, Dorian Gregory, and Danny Bonaduce. He currently serves as the featured dating/relationship expert on iVillage.coms popular "Ask Mr. Answer Man" online discussion board where he offers an honest male perspective on day-to-day issues to women around the world.
Steves newest book titled, Dating Rocks! The 21 Smartest Moves Women Make For Love, is due for release in December of 2005.
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