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Sweet child of nine

World’s youngest love guru pens bestseller about how to pull girls

By Gail Edgar
Sunday, 15 February 2009

Alec Greven, nine year old author of How To Talk To Girls

Alec Greven, nine year old author of How To Talk To Girls

Unable to pull girls? Tired of being laughed at by hot women? Fed up at having spent another Valentine’s Day alone?

Then your problems are at an end.

Meet lover BOY Alec Greven, the world’s youngest expert on pulling chicks.

The nine-year-old from Colorado has become an overnight sensation in the US after penning a book filled with tips on how to chat up women.

Dubbed the ‘pint-sized pick-up artist’, the schoolboy started writing his bestseller How To Talk To Girls for a school creative writing project.

His teacher was so impressed with his essay on his friends’ attempts to impress girls, she recommended he turn it into a pamphlet.

And that’s exactly what he did, selling the handwritten booklets for $3 each at the school fair.

Alec’s observations were such a success he became a media sensation and appeared on the Ellen deGeneres show to tell his story.

His TV debut led to a deal with Harper Collins and his book shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

He also sold the rights to Fox Movies for a cool six-figure sum. But amazingly, Alec says that despite his instinctive feel for what makes the opposite sex tick, he’s too young for girls.

He describes his book as being for “all boys — aged eight to 80” and says he carried out his research by watching his friends in the school playground.

“Let’s say a boy was going to try to say hi to a girl he likes, I would stand nearby and peek and listen in,” he says.

“If a problem happened twice, I put it in my book. If something worked a few times, I put it in my book, too.

“ I got interested in the topic because there’s a lot to learn about girls.”

He also revealed that women have bought the book for their husbands.

Alec has been promoting his book around the States and has already written two sequels: How to Talk to Moms and How to Talk To Dads, which will go on sale this spring.

 

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