John P. Gavin book signing and talk  

Friday, May 31st, 6-8pm.  

Online Dating Sucks …but it’s how I fell in love

It’s the true story of me--a part time nice guy, part time player, and full time advice columnist.

John offers guidance in negotiating the difficult and often frustrating pathways within online dating.  

John is a columnist for the Benicia Herald. He spent a year writing about how women can better understand the way men approach Online Dating – and relationships in general – and how to use that knowledge to make their own online experience better.

My book is the story of my endeavor to explain why the dating sites can be so frustrating – and how to minimize those frustrations. And while the original intent of my column may have been to educate women about men, it ends up working just as well in reverse, as men find out what women are really looking for in a guy – and how to be That Guy.

The advice columns I’ve collected in my book are interwoven with the story of a year in my personal life – a year in which I dated, and played around, and then fell deeply in love.

In my journey of discovery I found that successful online dating has as much to do with how we go about it as it does with who we are – and to underscore the point I found that when I changed how I dated it also changed who I dated – a discovery that led me to love. 

Please join us on Friday, May 31st at 6pm. 

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