The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right is a self-help book by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, originally published in 1995.

In 2001 the follow-up book The Rules for Marriage: Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work was released in the midst of Fein's legal separation from her husband to whom she had been married for sixteen years.

With politics so cynical and shallow this season, he might do well to try the cynical and shallow best-selling guide to courtship, "The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right."

Today at 3 P.M. Sherrie Schneider, author of "The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right."

These three come from "The Rules for Marriage: Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work," by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, the latest sequel to the notorious dating guide "The Rules."

Mr. LaRose is a co-author of a book about dating called "The Code: Time-Tested Secrets to Getting What You Want From Women - Without Marrying Them!"

He described his book as a response to "The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right" by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider.

But Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider, co-authors of "The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right" (Warner Books, 1995), instinctively knew better.

Ellen Fein is an author best known for co-writing The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right, a best-selling 1995 book.

Ms. Fein is co-author, with Sherrie Schneider, of "Rules II," which was published by Warner Books last week as the companion volume to "The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right."