This Is Why You're Single book

'This Is Why You're Single' Book Trailer

This Is Why You’re Single was released Dec. 8, 2015 through Adams Media (Simon & Schuster) in the U.S. It was optioned for television by the Pop Network with Spera and Lane writing the pilot. The book was released as an audiobook through Audible and has come out internationally in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Czech Republic, Romania and Taiwan. It has been praised and written about by The Washington Post, People magazine, Bustle, Cosmopolitan, The Bookish, In Touch Weekly and many others.


About the book:

Whether you're falling for that man child for the fifty-seventh time or text messaging your way to stalker status, dating can make you want to find a nice roomy hermitage on Airbnb and live a solitary, monk-like life.

Luckily, that frustration ends now.

This Is Why You're Single breaks away from your typical dating guide by taking a page from Aesop's playbook with hilarious modern-day dating fables paired with advice, entertaining quizzes, graphs, and illustrations. 

Just how your childhood teacher read you the story of “The Tortoise and the Hare” (rather than bluntly tell you not to be a cocky little shit), This Is Why You're Single teaches dating “morals” through stories – some familiar and some less familiar:

  • Meeting with a private eye to background check a date

  • Being confronted at an intervention for your FOMO

  • Watching a breaking news report about the migration patterns of single women

  • Getting escorted out of Forever 21 by bouncers

  • Joining a coup d’etat to overthrow an oppressive regime that dictates sexual etiquette

  • Listening to a pitch from advertising executives rebranding your dating profile

Whether you're looking to lock down that second date, third marriage, eight-seventh text message, or first three-way, the morals you take away from each chapter will make dating a whole lot more doable, a little less weird and, well, actually pretty fun.