Playing Hard To Get

Sick of sabotaging potential relationships with desperate text messages and obsessive behaviour? tired of lengthy phone calls to gal pals hoping to get to the bottom of what he really means in those cryptic e-mails? Or maybe you've already nabbed your dream dude, but right now he'd rather watch the adverts during the test cricket than stare dreamily into your eyes?If you've reached the point where you're considering buying five cats and a knitting machine and chucking in this dating malarkey once and for all, listen up - help is at hand. In their saucy, funny and feisty new book, Dr Cindy Pan and Bianca Dye suggest that instead of trying harder, you might simply try playing harder to get. they reveal how to play the dating game and not only win, but to enjoy every moment. You'll laugh (and cry) with Bianca as she exposes her own dating disasters, wonder why you didn't think of Cindy's sage advice yourself, and learn to hold back and love yourself enough to snag Mr Right.Stop blaming your lousy love life on someone else and get a game plan. Let Cindy and Bianca take you by the hand and walk you through a few matches. Before you know it, you'll be playing like a pro. Who said playing hard to get was hard? Once you try it, you'll realise that life, or at least love, was meant to be easy.

About the Author :
I grew up in Badgery's Creek on a CSIRO field station. I was the subject of numerous experiments. Mine was a life devoted to science. My brother wanted to test the hypothesis that rotund, never-shorn lambs were a viable mode of transport for three-year-old female humans. They were not. My father wanted to see whether the wild Chinese cabbage he had 'cultivated' was indeed digestible by humans. It was not. My mother specialised in cultivating hair-and-dust balls that blew along the lino like the tumbleweeds of the wild, wild west. Fortunately these were eminently digestible'so my brother proved. Yes, I was the only normal one. And so today. I live with an eleven-week-old kitten who speaks five languages. All unintelligible to the thrity-three-year-old female human ear. Ping-Pong is black and white - very nice markings. I am still the only normal one in the household. Ah yes. It is so hard to be the only normal one. I feel like an alien in my own land. And so here, in the wastelands of the HarperCollins website, (Why is there no space between Harper and Collins? Just my mum wants to know, that's all.) I wander, a philistine amongst literati, a cogito-nihil amongst cognoscenti. Feels like old times. The book? The book! The book! I wrote one. It's red and black - very nice markings. The markings inside are all unintelligible (except to thirty-three-year-old female humans'Chinese'named Cindy Pan or near on.) But you can try! As my father would say, 'Giving it a go! What's to be lose?' It's about sex, drugs and relationships. All of which I have baulked at. Hence the kitten. But reading the book, you'd hardly know. 'Giving it a go! What's to be lose?' Cindy Pan is a brow-beaten general practitioner in NSW who is frequently asked to speak about sexuality and sexual health. Hard to say why. She was the medical presenter for 'Sex/Life' (Channel Ten) and 'The Lifestyle Channel' (Foxtel). She has written 'humorous and informative' piffle on sex, relationships and health in numerous publications including 'The Sun-Herald', 'Minx' and 'Claudia'. Her television appearances include multiple outings on 'The Panel' (so hard'to be the only normal one) as well as 'The Super Debates', 'Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton', 'Totally Wild', 'Bondi Banquet' and 'Hypotheticals with Geoffrey Robertson'. She and her mother ('Big Ping-Pong') recently travelled to China ('the motherland') as the subjects of a television documentary about discovering your roots. Cindy was surprised to find she had some. Real gnarly ones. The documentary, produced by Eden and Nicola Gaha, will screen in 2001 as part of the Centenary of Federation. Cindy is also the Ambassador for Chinese New Year for the City of Sydney in 2001, the Year of the Snake. Again, hard to say why. Bianca Dye is a top-rating radio personality who sometimes finds playing hard to get ' well ' hard. 

Review :
This saucy, funny, feisty and original look at dating disasters… is a must-read for anyone who has drunk-dialled or thrown themselves at a guy for all the wrong reasons.’Bendigo Advertiser, 10th March 2007‘…amusing, conversational and easy to read. As long as relationships flounder in a sea of opportunities, this kind of book will be a life raft.’The Sydney Morning Herald, 15th March 2007