The sex-and-relationship expert on G4’s Attack of the Show, author of Party Girl and Bought, and the editor of Reality Matters, Anna David is smart, successful, and single. Falling for Me is Anna’s provocative, eye-opening, and inspiring chronicle of the year she changed her life by following the advice of Cosmopolitan Magazine guru Helen Gurley Brown in her classic Sex and the Single Girl. Anna’s story of “How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love”—and her determination to either find “the one” or accept once and for all that it’s not in the cards—is touching and transformative, exhilarating and uplifting, and belongs on every bookshelf next to Eat, Pray, Love�� and The Happiness Project.

Still, there are some crucial things you need to know and most will ease the anxieties of those who believe that publishing is an impenetrable world.

They are, as follows:

-You don’t need to have a ridiculously interesting life

-You don’t need to be ridiculously talented

-You don’t need to be ridiculously well-connected

-You don’t need to have any connections at all

-You don’t need to get a traditional book deal

Still, there are some things you do need, namely��

-You do need to know your mission

-You do need to know your limitations

-You do need to follow the rules

-You do need to know your why

In this short guide that’s packed-to-the-brim with tips for making your book a hit as well as plenty of information about what you can do once you become a bestselling author, New York Times bestselling author Anna David reveals what she’s learned from two decades in the publishing world.

"I had no idea what it really took to put myself on the map as an author until connecting with Anna. My book is now in its second printing and is going to be reviewed in O Magazine." - Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's & Mine

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.