Sucka Free Love!: How to Avoid Dating The Dumb, The Deceitful, The Dastardly, The Dysfunctional and The Deranged (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781419653858)

Deborrah Cooper gained underground acclaim through her 18-year career of relationship advice counseling, conducting seminars and workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area and as a producer and host of "HeartBeat," a cable television talk show in Oakland, California. She was a frequent on-air guest at KMEL 106.1 radio and guest columnist on AOL's NetNoir channel. Ms. Cooper has been featured in Black Enterprise magazine, on CNN, and interviewed for Ebony, Essence, Honey and dozens of other regional and national publications and radio programs. She has also appeared as a guest expert on the nationally televised talk show "Men Are From Mars, Women are from Venus" with host Cybill Shepherd, and featured on BET Television's "Oh Drama!" Ms. Cooper, writing under the moniker, "Ms. HeartBeat," has penned hundreds of articles and provided relationship advice to millions on her groundbreaking AskHeartBeat.Com and SurvivingDating.Com websites, as well as for Examiner.Com (San Francisco edition). Established in 1997, AskHeartBeat.Com is one of the longest-running Black owned websites on the Internet, and the first to focus exclusively on Black male/female relationships. Her casual, down-to-earth style of relating to people of all races and ages worldwide afforded her the opportunity to gain sociological data on interpersonal relationships and a perspective that is unique in the industry. In her first book, "Sucka Free Love," Ms. Cooper dispenses solid advice mixed with a healthy dose of humor to guide men and women in examining their actions, reactions and beliefs about relationships and the opposite gender.