I finally took some time to translate my interview that appeared in the January issue of Glamour magazine (The Greek Edition). I was interviewed by the Senior Editor -Danai Christopoulou - and she asked me so many good questions that I wanted to turn all my answers into blog posts. These are the ones that were eventually published. Let me know your thoughts, please. Enjoy!

What urged you to start a blog and when did you realize it should become a book?
I’d just finished my master’s degree and I was at a job that didn’t fulfill me. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go, or even who I was. And I was single while all my friends were in relationships. My chances of meeting someone? Zero. I figured that starting a blog (one that would combine my two loves: writing and relationships) would make me get up off my couch, get out there and start dating. The idea for the book came six months later. I was meeting men, flirting, going on a few dates and documenting it all on my blog daily. I started getting comments from my readers suggesting that I write a book of short stories. Others, even more enthusiastically, wanted to know when the book was coming out! When I realized that my stories could inspire hope in another single girl who was as confused as I was, turning them into a book seemed like the most natural next step.
How did the men you dated react to the possibility that they would end up on your blog?
I never asked them and they never offered to tell me. But one of the guys I dated did tell me that it appeared I hated men. That’s entirely not true! I love guys, I just don’t understand them. Writing helps me to understand the inexplicable.
What would you say to a woman who thinks your book seems to focus too much on finding a boyfriend?
I’ve been single for the majority of my adult life. I’ve been single and fabulous, single and angry, single and happy, single and a mess. Our relationship status does not define us. Our need for love and companionship is a basic human need, as long as it isn’t the only need you’re trying fulfill. You can be single and fabulous and that’s fine. You can also be single -fabulous or not- AND be looking for love and that’s fine too.
Do you believe in soul mates? In a perfect match for everyone?
I don’t believe in Mr Perfect: the perfect man or woman. What matters are our needs, our wants and our choices. We should never stop believing in those.
How difficult it is, in this day and age, for someone to believe in happy endings?
Do they even exist? A story doesn’t only have a beginning and an ending. In a book, those are most often the shortest chapters. The thing I want and hope for is a happy “middle” of my story.
And finally…
SIX REASONS YOU SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP HOPE
1. Think about the last time something wonderful happened that you weren’t expecting. For example, the baristas at my local Starbucks gave me my chai on the house the other day. Good things will happen to you.
2. Hope gives you courage. The courage to smile at a cute boy, the courage to fall in love again, the courage to be yourself. And you can only find true love when you’re brave.
3. Right now, someone, somewhere is writing the song that will become your favourite song next year. There are things happening now, that you can’t see. They’re just waiting for you to discover them.
4. Count your eyelashes. Come on, count them. (I stopped counting at 60.) Every eyelash symbolizes a wish or a want. Next time, you’re coating those lashes, make a wish. (Make a dozen wishes!)
5. There is someone out there who needs you for exactly who you are and for the love only you can give. It could be a friend, a neighbour, even your cat.
6. Remember when Sex and the City ended and you were wondering what you’d watch? Enter Meredith Grey and Dr McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy. Remember how much you hated the fourth season of Grey’s Anatomy? Enter Blair and Chuck of Gossip Girl. Pop culture will always provide us with enough material to dream.
Do YOU believe in soul mates? What about happy endings?







