Author Biography
Alan Stransman is the author of six book including two memoirs, entitled, So, Why Have You Never Been Married?: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Lunacy and Don't Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale for Would-Be Entrepreneurs. Alan is also a former teacher of English at the high school and university levels and a former producer, director and writer of broadcast television programs. in 1999, he created, wrote, produced and directed the series, Spectacular Spas, which was broadcast in more than 50 countries worldwide and then founded one of the first day spas in the world for men. His memoir chronicling that entrepreneurial adventure was adapted into a case study by the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, one of the top business schools in the world. Badass B***S***: Helping Young Men Identify and Reject Toxic Ideas About Dating, Relationships, Women and Sex was written in response to the culture of so-called seduction guides, which promote ideas and images of controlling and deceiving women and are, in the view of the author, promoting rape fantasies.