Virtually Yours Lifts the Lid on Internet Romance

The first book about the exciting new world of Internet romance has just been published. It takes readers through some hair raising true adventures as well as teaching them how to find their soul mate in the murky world of cyberspace.

Written by internet dating expert Teresa Mannix, Virtually Yours: Your Guide to Finding Love in Cyberspace is available on the Internet through the author's Web site at www.virtuallyyours.net. Published by Bookpress, it will be distributed to Australian book stores in July.

Whether youre a male or a female seeking a soul mate, or whether youve already found yours and youre just plain curious about virtual love and cyber sex, Virtually Yours is only book youll ever need to read on the subject.

Its a true story that will make you laugh and make you cry. It might even shock you a little. Teresa Mannix will keep you absorbed during every page-turning twist in her cyberdating quest.

It led her to United States and into the presence of five men who romanced her via email. Were they who they said they were? Did she find true love? Youll have to read the book to find out...

Youll learn how to attract the right people, how to read between the lines of their mail and how to do it locally as well as on an international scale. Written in a witty style thats easy to read, Virtually Yours is one of those books you just cant put down.

For a good belly laugh, read the Single Speak Decoders. Youll never interpret a singles profile the same way again. Curious about whos out there? The Field Guide to Cyber Lovers is all you need to recognise the Spotted Cyber Stalker, the Piebald Parenter, the Hooded Misery Bird, the Fleet-Footed Road Runner and the many other creatures that lurk in human clothing in the jungles of cyberspace.

Ms Mannix, a Walkley Award winning journalist who has worked as a senior executive in the communication industry, also writes cyber dating tips and provides virtual agony aunt services for Australia's biggest Internet singles site, RSVP and the international site Soulmates.

People around the world are discovering that the Internet is not populated by paedophiles and axe murderers, but by educated, intelligent, high-earners who you just wont find in the bars and clubs," Mannix said.

The Internet is causing a revolution in the dating scene. Its cost effective and gives singles a huge database of educated, adventurous people to select from in a safe environment. Its the coolest way to meet. Nobody needs to hang out in a meat market, fork out thousands to a dating agency or suffer the embarrassment of being continually 'fixed up by married friends."

Virtually Yours costs US$24.95 including postage and handling.

For further information contact Teresa Mannix on 61 2 9550 5373 or 0412 550 232 or author@virtuallyyours.com.au.