MysteryDates®, my 282-page volume that shows how you can keep the sizzle in your relationship, is now available in paperback, hardcover, and e-book editions. Just push the buy buttons for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, or, well, you get to select your favorite site.

The book took me more than six years to research and write, and 35 years to experience the experiences that comprise its core. 

Unlike the movies, it doesn’t have a cast of thousands (or anything created by CGI or AI or some other platform with an acronym as a handle); it focuses mainly on my wife and me — and how we can help you, the reader, retain, resuscitate, or refresh the joy that flared when sparks first sparked between you and your mate. MysteryDates® is, in fact, a light-hearted, amusing “how-to” guide for happy, zing-filled relationships sandwiched between travel and trek tips.

I’ve said something like this before, but the notion bears repeating, my book may be akin to a medical prescription that’s better dipped into as needed rather than consumed in a single sitting.

No matter which way you choose to read it, MysteryDates® can show you how to surprise your partner with a spontaneous lunch or a flight to a weeklong visit to a best friend in another state, how to eliminate the expected spasms of Valentine’s Day and other special occasions and substitute a non-stressful and loving event, and where to go in your own neighborhood — or across the ocean — to easily find delight. 

It also can delight you just to read about free food or a $30 million gown, about beer-bathing or the International Spy Museum, about the annual testicle festival or the time when Nancy Fox, my decades-long partner, and I helped each other turn into clowns in San Francisco.

As the old TV commercial says, “Try it — you’ll like it.”