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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Categories
Sex & sexuality, social aspects

THIS IS WHY YOU'RE SINGLE

Angela Spera Laura Lane

Based on their wildly successful sketch show, comedians Laura Lane and Angela Spera bring their whip-smart humor and relationship-saving advice to any woman who has gone on a date anywhere. THIS IS WHY YOU’RE SINGLE breaks away from your typical dating guide by taking a page from Aesop’s playbook with hilarious modern-day dating fables.

It’s never been easier to meet someone. It’s also never been easier to screw things up. Whether it’s falling for that man-child for the fifty-seventh time or text messaging their way to stalker status with their latest Tinder match, single women everywhere are ruining their chances for finding their permanent plus-ones. That ends now. This Is Why You’re Single breaks away from your typical dating guide by taking a page from Aesop’s playbook. Inspired by their hit comedy show, authors Laura Lane and Angela Spera deliver modern-day dating fables that offer solid advice with plenty of laughs. Readers will be entertained as they learn insightful relationship morals like there’s more to life than the perfect meet-cute story. Complete with entertaining quizzes, graphs, and illustrations, This Is Why You’re Single makes dating a whole lot more doable, a little less weird, and, well, actually pretty fun. Laura Lane and Angela Spera are New York City-based comedy writers who have performed their sketch show This Is Why You’re Single in front of sold-out audiences since 2013 at the People’s Improv Theater. The show has been featured in publications including The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal (“An entertaining ride through some of the curiosities and headaches of modern dating….”), New York magazine, and The New York Times. Please visit www.thisiswhyyouresinglebook.com. In addition to a hilarious web video series, the duo launched a tie-in podcast.: http://thisiswhyyouresinglebook.com/podcast/

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Book Published 2015-12-16 by Adams Media

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Lane and Spera charm in this laugh-out-loud self-help book, based on their comedy show of the same name, about the perils of the modern dating scene. Humor-filled and irreverent, this book … has quite a bit of useful advice, reinforced by the humorous quizzes and exercises sprinkled throughout … .This is a must-read for both singletons and those who have found their happy-ever-afters. Read more...

Comedy writers … Lane and Spera based this entertaining book on their sketch show with the same title. They provide a series of likely dating scenarios that features actual physical meetings in the subway, texting protocol, traveling in packs, and go-to excuses for leaving a date early …. Terrific guidance….

Television rights have been optioned by Thank You, Brain! Productions, the producers of the popular comedy shows HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords” and “Billy on the Street,” among others.

An entertaining ride through some of the curiosities and headaches of modern dating, with scenes inspired by real-life dating in New York.

Their completely non-traditional dating guide This Is Why You're Single will have you simultaneously falling over laughing and nodding along in agreement, because their advice is just too darn on point. Read more...

Australia: Black, Inc., UK: Blink, Czech: Albatros, Romanian: Niculescu, Taiwanese: Good Publishing

Cutting-edge dating advice for millennial women. With candor and razor-sharp wit, comedy writers Lane and Spera debunk the mysteries of 21st-century dating…. Definitely not your mother’s guide to finding the perfect guy: at once hilarious and seriously practical. Read more...

tie-in podcast: http://thisiswhyyouresinglebook.com/podcast/ Read more...