Men Are Like Fish: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Catching a Man - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096708931X ISBN 13: 9780967089317

Synopsis

More than just another relationship book, Steve Nakamoto’s award-winning Men Are Like Fish (Writer’s Digest Magazine Self-Published Book Awards Nonfiction Honorable Mention) stakes claim to being The World’s #1 Metaphor For Romantic Love. ForeWordReviews.com recently gave this book its highest 5-Star rating saying, An exceptional book. Sweetly old-fashioned, yet wickedly on target. Both single women looking for that perfect catch and those seeking to recapture the romance of an existing relationship will find great value here. Men Are Like Fish is guaranteed to give even the most jaded and discouraged romantic angler a new, more joyful perspective on the oldest sport in the world.

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Review

Solid and practical advice for enhancing your feminine allure and inspiring your special man. Entertaining, provocative, filled with great quotes. -- Dr. Toni Grant, Clinical and Media Psychologist, June 2002

Sweetly old-fashioned, wickedly on target. Guaranteed to give even the most jaded and discouraged romantic angler a more joyful perspective. -- ForeWordReviews.com, June 2002

From the Publisher

QUESTION TO THE AUTHOR: TELL US ABOUT YOUR BOOK MEN ARE LIKE FISH. WHY DID YOUR WRITE THIS BOOK? EXPLAIN YOUR TITLE AND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT YOUR MESSAGE AND THE BOOK AS A WHOLE. Men Are Like Fish uses a fishing metaphor to illustrate how a woman can hook-up with the right man and land his elusive love. It’s another way of looking at love in a fun and simple way (from a man’s point-of-view). I wrote this book as the result of my own search for answers. I had a love affair that ended badly for me many years ago and it took me a long time to recover emotionally. Then I came across the work of Tony Robbins in the field of neurolinguistic programming which gave me some specific cause and effect reasons why romantic love happens. I began working on the idea of a book titled "Instant Romance" which was about how you can use neurolinguistic programming techniques to get people to fall in love with you, especially on cruises and Club Med vacations. Then one day I started noticing how people use fishing words in relationship phrases like he’s a nice catch, she landed a husband, he fell for her hook, line, and sinker, there are more fish in the sea, and don’t let the big one get away, to name a few. Part of my training with Tony Robbins was in the use of metaphors to create perceptional shifts and better understanding of complex ideas. So my book idea evolved into Fishing For Love. But writing still seemed a chore for me, so I took the easier route and decided to create a book of 500 quotations around the love and fishing theme. I went to book writing seminars and had my book idea evaluated by literary agents and book editors at the Maui Writer’s Conference. In a nutshell, the feedback was that any relationship book with the word Fishing as its lead-in would end up in the sports section of the book store. Also my original book idea was written for men and the agents and editors said that no publisher would take on a relationship book targeted for a predominately male audience. That’s because research shows that nearly 80% of all relationship books are purchased by women. So I had to come up with an idea about relationships from a man’s point of view but written for a female audience. They also told me that the book of quotations was a bad idea and that it would only fly if I actually wrote a first person narrative with personal anecdotes. At the time it that seemed like a hard task for me to accomplish. Then I came across a lady on a sightseeing tour that I was conducting (my part-time occupation is as a professional tour director) who told me, Steve I’ve heard you talk about your fishing for love idea and it reminds me of the old saying that a man chases a woman until she catches him. I found out that the saying was an American proverb which meant that if the woman is doing the catching, that makes the man the fish. I had it the other way around. Once I realize that love works best in America when it’s the man who is the fish, then the book fell into place. I had the first edition of the book completed about 6 months later. That first edition came out in January 2000 and won an honorable mention certificate in the Writer’s Digest 2000 Self-Published Nonfiction Book Awards. For the next two years I went on over 180 radio talk shows where I discussed my book and tested out some new ideas. I definitely learned more in those two years of promoting than the previous 7 years when I was researching and writing the original book. So it’s the second edition of Men Are Like Fish that is out now in bookstores and Amazon.com. This new edition is expanded, rewritten, updated, and loaded with unique new decision tools. I also took a calculated risk in making this new version a little bit more provocative. I hope that women can see the greater value in well-qualified straight talk instead of the usual wishy-washy self-help takes. But I realize that love is a very personal and sensitive issue so some women are just going to get offended and angry at the audacity of a man advising a woman on what to do.

Edition details

• ISBN 10: 096708931X
• ISBN 13: 9780967089317
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English