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Screw Cupid: The Sassy Girl's Guide to Picking Up Hot Guys [Paperback]

Sam Scholfield
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September 1, 2009
Screw Cupid is the guide for every woman ready to take her dating life into her own hands. Samantha Scholfield has many years of dating experience, and the techniques and strategies she reveals here were developed via extensive trial and error—and by consulting and collaborating with hundreds of women (and many men), and by refining the best of the extensive pickup advice that already circulates among men. The result: perfectly calibrated guidance on how to initiate a conversation—anytime, anywhere—and get right to a date, all without a guy knowing he’s being picked up.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: The Experiment (September 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1615190007
  • ISBN-13: 978-1615190003
  • Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #854,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Editorial Reviews

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“First-time author Scholfield emboldens women to make the first move on their 'hot guy' prospects and provides conversational and pragmatic road maps [with] enjoyable, practical, light fare. It is refreshing to visit successes and failures with someone who admits she was not a 'genetic lottery' winner.”
Library Journal

"Finally! Screw Cupid recognizes how valuable it can be for women to make the first move, and teaches them how to do it."
Dorian Solot, author of I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide

Screw Cupid chucks the old rules that advise women to wait for men to ask them out. Scholfield is the big sister you’ve always wished you had. She’s honest, encouraging, and gutsy enough to fall on her face (and tell you all about it). Scholfield takes us on a hilarious journey through her own pickup flops and successes, and she’s so endearing and likeable, even those not on the prowl are bound to enjoy the ride.”
Victoria Vantoch, PhD, gender historian

“Witty, self-aware, and filled with practical tips to meeting guys, Screw Cupid is a revelation for anyone still playing by ‘the rules.’ Armed with dozens of real-life examples, Samantha Scholfield illustrates how you can create opportunity with men while still keeping your ego and humor intact. It’s almost as if she’s done all of the embarrassing, trial-and-error research so you don’t have to. Women should rejoice—you’ve finally found your own answer to The Game.”
Evan Marc Katz, dating coach and author of Why You're Still Single: Things Your Friends Would Tell You If You Promised Not to Get Mad

“When it comes to dating, nothing can mess with our minds more than the cat and mouse of figuring out who's going to make the first move—but with Screw Cupid: The Sassy Girl's Guide to Picking Up Hot Guys by Samantha Scholfield, you now have some guidance going forth… Aside from giving women a pep talk towards the possibility of snagging the man of their dreams with a little bit of bravado and elbow grease, Screw Cupid is great because it offers practical tips on places (other than a bar) to find a suitable mate, discusses ways to use this strategy when online dating, and even offers some potential dialogue to educate the reader on what a successful conversation might look like.”
Nancy Redd, author of Body Drama and AOL Health Insider and Wellness Coach

“In her book, Screw Cupid: The Sassy Girl's Guide to Picking up Hot Guys, Samantha Scholfield bravely shares her dating experience—the highs and lows and, more importantly, the insight garnered over many years of dating rejection and redemption—all to improve the love lives of the female population. In this brilliantly crafted, humorous, but hard-hitting book, she distills techniques and strategies developed via extensive trial and error, refining the best of the extensive pickup advice that's already in circulation... With humor and depth, Samantha Scholfield turns her dating lemons into lemonade for our benefit.”
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About the Author

Sam Scholfield is a frequent contributor to Yahoo.com and has offered her expertise through Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and The Huffington Post. She has degrees from UCLA in English Literature and Bio-Geography (useful only at trivia nights and for blurting random facts at cocktail parties), dabbles in thinking about maybe training for triathlons, and has recently discovered the stress-relieving joys of zombie video games. She lives in San Francisco with her boyfriend and a houseplant named Bob.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: The Experiment (September 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1615190007
  • ISBN-13: 978-1615190003
  • Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #854,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Samantha Scholfield is the internationally published author of the humorous self-help book "Awkward: What to Do When Life Makes You Cringe" (August 2011, The Experiment) and the dating guide "Screw Cupid: The Sassy Girl's Guide to Picking Up Hot Guys" (September 2009, The Experiment). She is very happy to finally be putting her English degree from UCLA to good use and can often be found writing in the ubiquitous coffee shops of San Francisco.

For more information about Samantha and her work, please visit:

www.samanthascholfield.com
www.awkwardsurvivalguide.com
www.screwcupidthebook.com

She can also be found on Facebook at facebook.com/samanthascholfield.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Note: I am a single man, and I think the ideas in Screw Cupid are brilliant.

The sexual liberation movement brought sexual equality to women, but it destroyed dating. As every woman became potentially sexually available, neutral conversations between strangers of the opposite sex became next to impossible. Any attempt at polite conversation by a man became suspect. "How are you doing?" is now translated as, "I'm attracted to you" and provokes a wall of resistance by the woman, eager to show the man she won't be such an easy catch. The nice men no longer approach women, worn out by knee-jerk rejection, and the only men left initiating conversation are the jerks that no nice woman would ever want to date. This is the reason single women today complain incessantly, "There aren't any nice guys out there."

What's a girl to do? Offer to buy the MAN a drink? When even "Hello" becomes suspect, what are we left with as a conversation opener? This is the social reality we now live in. Rather than fight it, Scholfield embraces the current culture and offers a brilliantly simple and effective method of bypassing the resistance faced by both men and women in initiating conversation, and ultimately relationships, with perfect strangers. Acutely aware that the first words out of someone's mouth produce a reflexive response by the object of interest, she succeeds in eliciting a path of natural conversation, avoiding the the awkward, sexualized, and easily rejected path of the pick-up line approach.

As she explains throughout the book, with numerous examples, the "neutral approach" is the most reliable way to quickly and safely get to know a complete stranger, anywhere at any time.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, useful and very entertaining! August 27, 2009
By Mary
Format:Paperback
I found this book to be an entertaining and extremely practical and useful read. It's obvious that Scholfield uses some of the more amusing conversation starters for comedic value, but the base theory - using a question to start talking to the guy you want to talk to - is brilliant. I approach guys. I've never had a problem with it, and the issues that Scholfield hilariously details in the first part of the book can and do indeed happen. Her advice to remain neutral is insightful, and shows a keen understanding of first impressions, initial contact with a good-looking stranger and dating (and life) in general. On either side - whether it's the guy or the girl doing the approaching - anytime it's obvious that the person approaching wants more than the other person does, it's awkward. If that goes away - which is does when you follow Scholfield's advice and remain neutral - the sky is the limit.

She talks about meeting a lot of guys, but it's with the ultimate intention of finding THAT guy. Her focus is definitely on finding quality, but with the practical standpoint that you need to go through some quantity to find that quality. She has a section on online dating - which is where she met her boyfriend, incidentally - and uses her successful email to him as an example. Through that you can see that she uses the very same techniques that she would have used in person to set up their first date.

She also focuses a lot on the fact that although bars and clubs are the common go-to places to meet guys if you're a 20 to 30-something (and I am), that it's the places where sex isn't so on the brain that work best, like hiking, sailing, running clubs, libraries, concerts, cooking classes, etc. And if you don't already do those things, Scholfield says to join a group and get out there.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Realistic advice October 27, 2009
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This book offers women realistic advice on how to approach men. As a single woman, I was frustrated by either not getting hit on or getting hit on by men I was not attracted to. This book gives great advice about how to take more control of dating and just practice talking to men. I like that the book suggests that you just need to try to start a random conversation vs. coming up with something brilliantly witty to say upfront. I also really liked the last two chapters. One talked about deciding what male traits you really want, so you can focus your energy on guys you would actually want to date. The last chapter talks about taking stock of what you bring to the table, so you have things to talk about as well as improve your life independent of some arm candy. A great book for any woman ready to take control and actively find that great guy she's been looking for.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars GENIUS! Finally a dating book that ROCKS! August 31, 2009
By Lindsay
Format:Paperback
This book is absolutely GENIUS! I am single, living in San Francisco, and "how to meet guys" is always a topic of conversation among my fellow single girlfriends. As I was reading Screw Cupid I couldn't help but think, "why didn't I think of this!"

Scholfield offers step by step guidance to approaching a guy you are interested in, but without him knowing you are making the first move. Her examples are hilarious! And, of course, she offers a lot of options so there is bound to be one you can see yourself using. I am a fairly shy person and want my fellow shy girls to know that the theories in this book WORK! While in the airport last week I approached a guy that was standing in front of me in the baggage check line using the "need for information approach" and before I knew it we were saying farewell at the security check line- and he had my number in hand with plans to meet when we both returned.

While reading Screw Cupid, I felt like I was catching up with my best friend, listening to her dating stories. Scholfield's experience is totally relatable, the and the advice is solid. Finally, a dating book that proves dating doesn't have to be scary!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love, love, love it!
I read this book cover to cover and it has more practical, helpful advice than any other book I've had. Read more
Published on April 5, 2010 by Shadi Khanoom
5.0 out of 5 stars way better than i thought ANY dating book could be
i've always thought that generic dating advice is just inherently ridiculous - how could one book possibly address the issues and troubles of so many different types of people? Read more
Published on November 3, 2009 by katie
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Surprise
I bought this on a lark and found it to be highly entertaining as well as totally helpful. I am newly single and looking at the sixties all too closely. Read more
Published on September 13, 2009 by Carmel Carol
4.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense but FUNNIER!
This book is pretty funny and witty, it's like reading an email from your BFF! The biggest take-away for me was the section on "Openers"... Read more
Published on August 27, 2009 by Courtney
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Funny - And it will be easy to try
I LOVED this book. I am not a teenager anymore or a young adult and I don't go to bars looking for company. Read more
Published on August 26, 2009 by Pamela Stevenson
1.0 out of 5 stars Cupid? Not by a long shot.
Where to start? Maybe with the word "Sassy" which seems out of place, maybe with "Picking Up" which is 1999-speak for today's "Hook Up", and maybe with "Hot Guys" which actually... Read more
Published on August 25, 2009 by K. M. Metcalfe
5.0 out of 5 stars It worked on me!
I'm Samantha's boyfriend, and I can report from first-hand experience that the techniques from this book definitely work.
Published on August 3, 2009 by Eagle Jones
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