Speaks directly to the person looking for a partner, and to someone already in a potentially troublesome partnership. Speaks to anyone who is interested in how the brain works--and how it fools us and can be tricked by others--a self-help guide and a book of cognitive science. Most relationship books focus on communication, compatibility. This one focuses on who NOT to marry, e.g. sociopaths, malignant narcissists, emotionally dysregulated people...anyone who will make their lives hell. Will appeal to millennials who don't want to repeat their parent's mistakes, and to their parents who are hoping to avoid repeating their own. The divorce antidote. Authors will release an "app"/website corresponding with book release. "You met the love of your life, now use Dating Radar to see if he/she is crazy." Will be marketed as next step after meeting online, e.g. "you've met the man of your dreams, now Dating Radar will tell you if he could become your worst sociopathic nightmare." Fascinating, real-life and celebrity stories such as Paul McCartney's relationship with Heather Mills; the Jodi Arias case; high-profile prosecutors. A 21st century update of the mega-bestseller Love and Limerence. A self-help book and a work of popular sociology and a book of popular cognitive science.
Speaks directly to the person looking for a partner, and to someone already in a potentially troublesome partnership. Speaks to anyone who is interested in how the brain works--and how it fools us and can be tricked by others--a self-help guide and a book of cognitive science. Most relationship books focus on communication, compatibility. This one focuses on who NOT to marry, e.g. sociopaths, malignant narcissists, emotionally dysregulated people...anyone who will make their lives hell. Will appeal to millennials who don't want to repeat their parent's mistakes, and to their parents who are hoping to avoid repeating their own. The divorce antidote. Authors will release an "app"/website corresponding with book release. "You met the love of your life, now use Dating Radar to see if he/she is crazy." Will be marketed as next step after meeting online, e.g. "you've met the man of your dreams, now Dating Radar will tell you if he could become your worst sociopathic nightmare." Fascinating, real-life and celebrity stories such as Paul McCartney's relationship with Heather Mills; the Jodi Arias case; high-profile prosecutors. A 21st century update of the mega-bestseller Love and Limerence. A self-help book and a work of popular sociology and a book of popular cognitive science.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Who is a High-Conflict Person? (and Why Should You Avoid
Committing to One?)
Chapter 2: What Jams Your Radar?
Chapter 3: What are Your Blindspots?
Chapter 4: "Don't Kiss a Narcissist"
Chapter 5: "Don't be Blindsided by a Borderline"
Chapter 6: "Don't be Seduced by a Sociopath"
Chapter 7: "Don't Hook Up with a Histrionic"
Chapter 8: "Other High-Conflict Issues to Watch For"
Chapter 9: Splitting Up
Chapter 10: Fine-Tuning Your Dating Radar
$10,000 marketing and publicity budget
National (and select regional) television and radio outreach to The
Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Morning Show, The View, The
Talk, Dr. Phil, NPR, Sirius XM Radio (Doctor Show), Syndicated talk
shows and more
National and regional outreach to top market daily newspapers (book
editors, mental health and wellness columnists, Boomer
editors/writers) in the US.
General consumer outreach targeting online and print publications
such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Dr. Oz the Good Life Magazine,
Working Mother, Parents Magazine, Psychology Today, MORE, Women's
Health, New York Times "Modern Love", Cosmopolitan, Latina, AARP
(for Boomer singles) and many more
Trade Media targets for feature and review coverage include
Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and Shelf Awareness.
Strong focus on online coverage, targeting top-tier portals, blogs
and newsgroups for features, author interviews, reviews, excerpts,
OpEds and original posts wherever appropriate.
Social media outreach and book giveaways on select websites to
increase visibility
Promotion on authors' websites: www.unhookedmedia.com and
www.highconflictinstitutepress.com
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with both author's speaking
engagements--approximately 50 each per year.
Bill Eddy is an award-winning author, lawyer, therapist,
mediator and the President of High Conflict Institute. He developed
the "High Conflict Personality" theory (HCP Theory) and is an
international expert on managing high-conflict disputes.
As an attorney, Bill is a Certified Family Law Specialist in
California and the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict
Resolution Center in San Diego. Prior to becoming an attorney in
1992, he was a Licensed Clinical Social worker with twelve years'
experience providing therapy to children, adults, couples and
families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. He has
taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego
School of Law for six years and he is on the part-time faculty of
the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine
University School of Law and the National Judicial College.
Megan Hunter , MBA, is an author, speaker, and expert on
high-conflict disputes and complicated relationships. She is CEO of
Unhooked Media, a U.S.-based media company focused on relationship
and conflict revolution through print, digital and the spoken word.
She is publisher at High Conflict Institute Press and its imprint
Unhooked Books and co-founder of the High Conflict Institute. She
is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Satellite's The Doctor Show
(psychiatry) with Dr. Michael Aronoff.
Megan trains legal, mental health, business, leadership groups,
universities and other professionals across the U.S., Canada and
Australia. She has strong policy and judicial training experience
during her tenure at the Arizona Supreme Court and as a member of
the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners. She currently serves
on the Advisory Board of the Personality Disorder Awareness
Network.
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