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Dear Ms. Dean:
I thought the premise of your story was quite fun. An average girl decides to pen a self help book on how to pick up guys, provocatively titled “The Average Girl’s Guide to Getting Laid.” In the process, she gains self confidence and a man to die for. Overall, the story is a good one but hampered by some convenient and tiresome plot devices.
Ellie is a travel writer who pitched a sex book on a dare. The book is supposed to be about “empowering women, meeting their needs, and helping them get what they want from men.” Of course, Ellie doesn’t know anything about that. She’s like a virgin sex therapist. Only not a virgin, but inexperienced and unconfident. Basically no one is less qualified to write this book than Ellie which makes me wonder why the publisher even bought it. Okay, employing the old Suspension of Disbelief.
Her agent loved the idea and sold it. Now Ellie has to deliver. She moves to New York for a month to “research” her book. She’s very much the rube in the big city at first, …
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