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about the author
J.M. Kearns, PhD, is a writer of iction and non-iction who has at
various times been a philosopher of perception, a crisis counselor and
a music journalist. He brings to relationship books the unusual com-
bination of a philosopher’s analytical mind and a novelist’s insight
into emotions. His book
Why Mr. Right Can’t Find You
was published
in January 2007 in Canada and the U.K., and released in the U.S. in
January 2008. A bulletin from the trenches of the male search for true
love,
Why Mr. Right Can’t Find You
was embraced for its insight, hu-
mor, and compassion by readers and the press on both sides of the
Atlantic: it was featured on Oprah & Friends and in
OK! Magazine,
Glamour, Cosmopolitan-UK, Maclean’s, The Toronto Star
, and many
others. His novel
ex-Cottagers in Love
was published in April 2008 by
Key Porter Books (Toronto). J.M. Kearns lives in Nashville.
For more on Kearns and his writings, please visit
www.jmkearns.com.
praise for J.M. Kearns’ writing:
“If you’ve been on the lookout for ages but still haven’t found The
One, this is for you . . . you’ll be in the arms of your true love in no
time!”
—
OK! Magazine
“Practical, encouraging and . . . optimistic . . . Kearns gently under-
mines the conventions and insecurities that keep [women] from
actively and effectively seeking a mate, including self-defeating myths
(“Serious relationships never begin in bars”) and media-inspired
body-image issues . . . Personal anecdotes round out this thorough,
thoughtful and entirely upbeat dating guide.”
—
Publishers Weekly
“I review self-help books for a living and this is the best self-help book
I’ve ever read.”
— Julia McKinnell, Contributing Editor,
Maclean’s
“‘I’m bringing the good news from the male side of the trenches,’
said J. M. Kearns . . . ‘To set the record straight and defend the much-
maligned male gender, who I think have been distorted in the self-help
literature for years.’ Mr. Kearns said . . . men [have been] presented
in . . . dating literature as a homogeneous block to be tricked, decod-
ed and subdued by women. ‘If you worry about what most men are
looking for, you’ll go wrong,’ he said. ‘These books tell women they
must act in accordance with a prescribed set of rules that has nothing
to do with how men actually think.’”
—
Globe & Mail
“Unlike most such books,
Why Mr. Right Can’t Find You
is funny, inspir-
ing and quite practical. A new book aimed speciically at successful,
real single women, it may be just the thing you need to ind Mr. Right-
for-you. And it’s been known to help a few men ind their Ms. Right.”
— Carolyn Cooke in
The Now Newspaper
“J.M. Kearns in his excellent new book
Why Mr. Right Can’t Find You
. . . unlike other self-helps for the single woman, starts with the prem-
ise that there is nothing wrong with you. You do not need to be ‘ixed.’
Kearns . . . has a PhD in philosophy and has worked as a crisis coun-
sellor . . . Whereas other how-tos portray men as unknowable aliens
interested only in hard-to-get women, Kearns has a different take. A
lot of men . . . he says, want a meaningful relationship. ‘Contrary to
the dating books,’ he writes, ‘if you get into a conversation with the
right man you won’t have a problem knowing what to say!’”
— Julia McKinnell,
Maclean’s
readers speak about J.M. Kearns’ writings:
“The book of hope. I followed its advice straight to a great new man
I met, and now I’m happily married to him!”
— Olivia D.
“This book makes you look at relationships from a completely dif-
ferent perspective. I approached someone through an avenue I had
never thought of before (because Kearns helped me to see opportu-
nities, and empowered me to do something about it) and we have
been dating ever since. The difference about this relationship is that
I didn’t approach it with a sense of lack or deiciency. This is truly a
new day and a new way for me!”
— Lorraine L.
“This book doesn’t even deserve to be lumped in with all the other
“Self Help” stuff: it’s better than that. I was shocked to ind an intelli-
gent discussion of something people almost never speak intelligently
about—preferring instead to believe in some pie-in-the-sky fantasy at
the exact moment they’re planning a life! I brought this book to my
boyfriend when we’d only been going out a few weeks: we read it to-
gether, talked about it, went on a road trip to test it out, and basically
used it as a roadmap to ind true compatibility . . . at the same time we
were falling in love. I highly recommend it for couples, not just singles,
because it jump-starts those conversations and questions you need to
igure out before you get all emotional and sappy. We now know things
about each other we’d never thought to ask ourselves. Oddly enough,
after you igure out you really can be best friends and great partners,
all that dreamy love stuff is much deeper and more rewarding. Great
book—and the little vignettes make it hilarious, too.”
— Marguerite P.
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