VanWhitfield.com Beeperless Remote

An underground sensation when it was published in 1996, Van Whitfield's lively romantic comedy and Ben Franklin Award Finalist, takes a revealing and altogether delightful look at dating in the nineties.

With a style that is simultaneously self-effacing and downright hilarious, Beeperless Remote is Van Whitfield's tale of one man who has been thrown in the dating pool and is struggling to get out.

Shawn Wayne is a former All-American. He's single, employed, hard-bodied and looking for his ideal woman. Shawn may have an obsession with ESPN's "SportsCenter," money, and going to the gym, but he's a good guy. According to his best friend, Kelly, however, he may to "expand his universe" a little to find the right woman.

Shawn's search for the woman of his dreams leads to dating misadventures ranging from nightmare blind dates and underage flings to encounters with married swingers. Held hostage by today's technology, where dating has become a complex web of answering machines and cell phones, he finds the rules have changed, and that he now has to contend with six different types of women:

1 - "I just got out a bad relationship."

2 - "I'm not interested in a relationship, I just have friends."

3 - "What is it you said you do for a living?"

4 - "Men are dogs!"

5 - "My biological clock is ticking, I need a husband."

6 - "I'm single, I'm interested, and, yes, I'm interested."

Will Shawn find his "6"? Read this hilarious Blackboard and Emerge bestseller and find out.