“500 Dates” Book – Very Personal Humorous Dating Essays

Front cover of 500 Dates book by Mark Miller
Back cover of 500 Dates book by Mark Miller
  • Front cover of 500 Dates book by Mark Miller
  • Back cover of 500 Dates book by Mark Miller

    • “500 Dates” Book

    Now several years post-divorce, relationship expert and humorist Mark Miller has experienced more than five hundred first dates. In 500 Dates, composed of fifty-five humor essays, Miller features the highlights and lowlights of those dates.
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    Product details
    • Hardcover: 240 pages
    • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 1629144665
    • ISBN-13: 978-1629144665

    Among the true dating tales and revelations you will find in this book are:
    • How Miller and his date learned the limitations of a man being too emotionally expressive. (“Most guys consider revealing more about themselves emotionally and communicating on a deeper level nearly as enjoyable as falling face-first onto an ice pick—or spending the rest of eternity listening to Celine Dion music.”)
    • Miller’s realization is that sometimes men have to pay a heavy price for their dates’ previous relationship behavior.(“At least six different times, God has matched me up with a woman who has had a long history of wild, impulsive, passionate, no-holds-barred sex. She invariably finds something lacking in that lifestyle and decides to make a change. Starting with the very next man she dates. Who is invariably me.”)
    • Miller’s misguided social experiment to separate dating from status by spending less than $20 on the date, purchasing everything at a 99¢ store, and what he learned, as a result, about his date and himself. (“I realize now that on the journey of romance, thrift and creativity will take you only so far – for the rest of the trip, you’ll need MasterCard.”
    • How Miller took his date to his ex-wife’s holiday party only to find his date and his ex-wife bonding like high school girlfriends. (“Pam would take Amy aside and present to her a list of all 273 of my failings, most of which, she confides to Amy, won’t become noticeable until month three of Amy’s being with me. Amy is stunned; she’d only been aware of 149 of my failings.”)
    • How Miller took his date to his ex-wife’s holiday party only to find his date and his ex-wife bonding like high school girlfriends. (“Pam would take Amy aside and present to her a list of all 273 of my failings, most of which, she confides to Amy, won’t become noticeable until month three of Amy’s being with me. Amy is stunned; she’d only been aware of 149 of my failings.”)

    But 500 Dates is about much more than dating. Its humor essays also cover romance, relationships, breakups, attraction, the nature of love, and how both men and women view the art, science, expectations, and reality of courtship and turning courtship into something deeper and longer-lasting in the twenty-first century. Throughout these essays, a portion of which were previously published in various media, Miller provides a sense of hope about one’s romantic prospects. Readers will find that the end of a marriage, even a long-term one, does not mean the end of romance—or one’s sense of humor.

    Watch a 17-minute video edit from the one-hour kick-off of my new book, “500 Dates: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Online Dating Wars.” Took place at Barnes & Noble, at The Grove, in Los Angeles. Sincere thanks to my host, Yakov Smirnoff, musical guest Eric Schwartz, writer guest Roslyn Fleischer (aka Beulah Sanchez), editor Stephen Burr, and Barnes & Noble’s Lita Weissman. The book is available here on Amazon.com

    ▼ Watch a clip of the Barnes and Noble book launch below. ▼

    Mark Miller presents “500 Dates” at Barnes & Noble in L.A.

    500 Dates at Barnes & Noble in L.A
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    And here is the link to the audiobook version of 500 Dates:  http://adbl.co/1zHulBK

    About the Author

    Mark Miller has held positions as a nationally syndicated dating columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a dating blogger for the Huffington Post (along with a wealth of other publications), a TV sit-com staff writer/producer, a stand-up comic in nightclubs and on TV, and a writer for comedians such as Jay Leno, Dana Carvey, Roseanne Barr, and Jim Carrey. He lives in Los Angeles.