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The celebrity publishing world has always been booming, but now it’s bursting at the seams with more than just memoirs on the darkest parts of fame: last year brought cookbooks from both Eva Longoria and Olivia Newton-John, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz debuts his second novel later this month, and comediennes Amy Poehler, Lena Dunham and Judy Greer each scored big book deals for impending essay compilations of hilarity. With ghostwriters, self-publishers and very hungry editors on hand, it seems that just about everybody has a New York Times bestseller in them — or maybe two or three…
I caught up with Rev Run of Run-D.M.C. and singer/actor Tyrese Gibson, who partnered up to break down men’s biggest dating secrets for the women who are hurt by them all too often in their new self-help book Manology: Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed. Check out my feature below:
These days, inquiring minds are turning to Twitter to get dating advice from Tyrese Gibson and Joseph Simmons, aka Rev Run of Run-D.M.C. It’s where the Fast & Furious 6 actor spars with the Biblical-based bathtub tweeter about how women can find lasting love, even though so many men are masters of manipulation and mind games. Even Gibson, a single father, isn’t necessarily convinced it’s even possible.
“It’s not every man; I would be wrong to generalize and say every man has these kinds of intentions,” says Gibson, who’s frank about his former dating ways. “Having a 5-year-old daughter, I’ve tapped into a certain sensitivity that I normally never paid attention to, and I hope my daughter never ran into me when I was younger.”
In the new dating book Manology: Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed, the two tackle hot topics like infidelity, effective arguing and the ever-elusive question of “When is too soon to sleep with someone?” They each draw from their own relationship experiences and separate book successes: Simmons released an affirmations anthology Words of Wisdom and a parenting handbook Take Back Your Family (which he co-authored with his wife Justine) while Gibson wrote the self-help hardcover How to Get Out of Your Own Way.
“You can look at it as how to catch and keep a man: Tyrese will show you how to catch him, and my point of view will show you how to keep him,” says Simmons, a father of six children whom he first introduced on MTV’s hit reality show Run’s House.
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