Dragarazzi®

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dragarazzi® has been a music, portrait and alternative lifestyle photographer for the last 25 years. She has taken images of celebrities and icons alike, such as Woody Allen, Dita von Teese, Marilyn Manson, Henry Rollins, Iggy Pop, Nina Hagen, Brian Setzer, Quentin Crisp, and many more.

Her work has been featured in a wide variety of magazines as well as books (e.g. Gavin Baddeley’s Goth: Vamps and Dandies & Street Culture: Fifty Years of Subculture Style). She is a well-known figure within the gay and transgender community as well as on the London Club Kid/Party/Fetish scene. Also, she has carved a niche for herself by specialising in androgynous men, drag queens and ladyboys. She is a keen observer with great attention to detail and the
quirkiness of life.

For the past few years, she has also been focusing on Personal Development and Life Coaching. She has helped people resolve their relationship issues, from a total nightmare to being able to establish what they want and attaining it. Also available as a speaker, Dragarazzi® shares that through her misadventures in dating and what she has learned along the way, she gives you the tools to maximise your success. With her photography background, she is able to offer a unique perspective on how to achieve more satisfactory dates in no time!

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Why is it that we keep finding ourselves on a bad date or with the wrong partner? This is because we haven’t asked ourselves and our prospective dates/partners the right questions.

How is it that we get attracted to a new partner that is another version of our ex? It is because we haven’t addressed the pain yet from the previous relationship, given ourselves enough time to heal and let go of the past and forgive.

LEARN HOW…

You can break unhealthy relationship patterns, release non-supportive thoughts and replace them with supportive ones. This will not only transform your love life but will also create a ripple effect that will spill over in all other areas of your life.

UNCOVER THESE PAGES…

Simple strategies and changes you can make that will turn your dating life around.

If you apply the strategies shown in this book you will not only save yourself amazing amounts of time, money and frustration. You will also have more fun playing the dating game, attracting those who are right for you.

  • Having standards is a very good thing.
  • Learning how to ask the right questions of your date helps you save lots of time, money and frustration.
  • Making an effort in your appearance is vital for both men and women.
  • Are you reading the same page in the same book?
  • Discuss your kinky side early on. Don’t be shy… Be bold! Discover the strategy to talk about your debauchery in an easy and fun way.
  • ‘Nothing’ = ‘Something’. Your date is most probably not a psychic, clairvoyant or excellent cold reader, so clear communication is of the essence.
  • Think ‘Bridget Jones’ versus ‘Victoria’s Secret’.
  • Your happiness does not depend on the behaviour of another.
  • What are your non-negotiables?
  • Breaking up is a gift: Are you awake enough to receive it?
  • Boys will be girls.
  • You are accountable.
  • A life by design.
PRAISE

“This book is PACKED with absolute glamour. Just being in the same room as it will bring you love, life and vitality… And as for taking it home this evening… Just wait and see!

Dragarazzi®’s images and words are both sensitive and inspirational. A clear message to us all to show us that whoever we are and wherever we are, our other half is just waiting around the corner.”

—Sammm Agnew
Celebrity Makeup and Hair Designer

“If there is a manual to understanding the politics that go hand-in-hand with the dating game, then It Ain’t All Chocolates & Roses is it.”

—Baz Francis
Singer from Magic Eight Ball

“Dragarazzi®, a fine photographer and astute observer of night creatures, glamourous revellers and rock stars for 25 years. Here is unique advice for the discerning aesthete. What other dating book references the Marquis de Sade, merging desire with eloquent pragmatism for ALL ‘persuasions’ and preference? Approach with caution: This book has teeth!”

—Lee Being
Musician | Writer | Actor

“Human beings don’t come with a Hanes manual, but for relationships, It Ain’t All Chocolates & Roses is as close as you can get.”

—Jean-Luc Brouard
Photographer

It Ain’t All Chocolates & Roses will inspire you to ask those somewhat uncomfortable questions at the beginning as the rewards are immense. It will help raise your standards. Authenticity and boldness are applauded. Furthermore, this book encourages you to explore your kinky side to the full and why it might be very useful to discuss your debauchedness as early as possible… A straight-talking book, filled to the brim with stunning visuals and humorous anecdotes.”

—Matt Cooke
Model

“The dreaded date. To have been there and not experienced some form of irritation is unheard of! Dragarazzi® illustrates the often woes and lows of meeting a potential partner with warmth, humility and sassy wit in It Ain’t All Chocolates & Roses, a modern day must-have for an insight into the wild and wonderful world we co-habit, and how to win at it!”

—Kiria Lepink
Musician

“Are you sick of running into Mr. Same Package Different Wrapping?! Then It Ain’t All Chocolates & Roses is the book for you! It will not only help to identify precisely what you want… but also getting it!”

—Caroline Bachot
Author of The Fastest Way to Happiness

“What a fantastic, straightforward, honest and beautifully illustrated book. Congratulations, Dragarazzi®!”

—Elma Alorro Dionela
Author of How to Turn Scars Into Stars