What's this? A new book with classic advice?

Yes, it's true! Miss Abigail has pulled together the best relationship advice from this site, combined with brand new excerpts and fun graphics, for a fabulous new book titled Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage: Classic Advice for Contemporary Dilemmas, published in March 2006 by Thunder's Mouth Press.

ISBN: 1-56025-835-7; EAN 978-1560-25835-3; LCCN 2006385000
$14.95
Trade Paper 224pp, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4

 

"Fashions change, but the human heart doesn't." – Express (published by the Washington Post)

 

About the Book Since 1998, Miss Abigail’s Time Warp Advice has provided classic advice for contemporary dilemmas to readers of all ages, from all walks of life on the Web. Author Abigail Grotke offers readers a chance to step back in time as she pulls out relevant quotes, tidbits, and words of wisdom from her collection of 1,000 classic advice books in a quest to solve modern-day problems. The books span a period from 1822 to 1978 and cover the age-old topics of dating, love, living together, marriage, beauty, puberty, and sex. "Charmingly retro." – The Washington Post While the language is often quaint and curious, the insights provided remain remarkably fresh. This book takes an affectionate look at how advice throughout the ages is still meaningful today. Combining the best of Miss Abigail’s question and answer columns, each chapter features sidebars containing freestanding tips or selections related to chapter topics. Retro book covers, advertisements, historical photographs, and other amusing, related ephemera serve to illustrate the book.   "Guaranteed to give you good manners and a sunny disposition." – Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter   Chapters include: Starting Out What’s Happening to Me? Becoming Dateable I Like This Boy but I Don’t Know How to Tell Him The Fine Art of Flirtation Looking Good You’re Dating! What to Do on a Date Going Steady Heavy Petting It’s Not You, It’s Me On Being Single It’ll Happen When You Least Expect It Falling in Love Rules of Engagement Here Comes the Bride Dream Honeymoon Making Your House a Home Getting Along as Husband and Wife And They Lived Happily Ever After . . .

Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage is available online or at your favorite bookstore! "A humorous look at classic advice for everyone who will date and marry, sprinkled with helpful tips relevant for today's man and woman." – Diane La Rue, The Citizen "Courteous behavior is a mainstay in cyberspace as well, which boasts hundreds of Web sites devoted to the cause. The cyber-queen of it all, perhaps, is Miss Abigail." – Washington Times   Read what others have said about Miss Abigail!

"One of the best-conceived, best-executed sites we’ve seen in awhile. . . . it was enough just to visit a self-help site that doesn’t drone on about inner children, soul mates, Mars, or Venus." – Dummies Daily/Web After Five

About the Author

Haunted by a charm-school class in junior high school and the inability to do her own hair or apply makeup, Abigail Grotke has been collecting classic advice books for almost twenty years in a quest to sort it all out. She has an extensive background in print and digital publications and a keen interest in historical materials and pop culture, not to mention a love of crawling around dirty used bookstores to find the perfect book to add to her collection. Grotke has combined selections of advice from her books with witty commentary to create her award-winning Web site, Miss Abigail’s Time Warp Advice, and a high-profile weekly column for the London Times Saturday Magazine from September 2001 through February 2003. During the day, Grotke is a digital projects coordinator at the Library of Congress, and has previously worked in the publications office of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2004, she was named one of 55 Library Journal “Movers and Shakers,” an annual feature which sets out to identify “emerging leaders in the Library world." She lives in an old house in Takoma Park, Maryland, with her terrier mutt Felix, has an amazing collection of ice crushers, and is the hostess of a World-Famous Artichoke Party.

Photo of author by Diane Kresh.

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