Trisha Ventker

Trisha Ventker is an internet dating consultant and author of the award winning book,

Internet Dates from Hell which was optioned for television and screen by prominent producer, Paula Wagner of Chestnut Ridge Productions (Mission Impossible I, II, and III, The Last Samurai, Vanilla Sky, etc.).

She has appeared on various broadcast media including Mancow, Fox’s Dr. Keith Ablow Show,

KWGN WB2 Daybreak and KDVR Fox 31 Good Day Colorado, MORE magazine, Adam Curry's BIG APP SHOW, the Ed Tyll Show, Yellow Scene, MATCH.COM as well as on radio shows

throughout the nation. She also has appeared as a feature author and speaker at venues including the RMSBA and The Loud Flower.

Ventker also just published Heartstrings with her brother, Jim Small.

Having gone on hundreds of first dates in a span of six years, she is considered to be an

expert in online dating. She coaches singles from all across the US on how to post an

outstanding internet dating profile.

Trisha is now happily married and lives with her husband and their son in Colorado and NYC.

Internet Dates from Hell is not only a guide; it is also a six-year journey through author Trisha Ventker's dating life as a single kindergarten teacher who relocated from the suburbs to New York City to find her soul mate. Fielding as many as four hundred responses in one day, and receiving more than fifty two thousand hits on her personal ad in an eight-month span, she shares her frightening but true encounters in the wonderful world of online dating.

Follow Ventker through the trials and tribulations of her quest to find "Mr. Right." Along the path, Trisha Ventker endures hundreds of first dates. Encounters include a conspiracy theorist from the United Kingdom, a religious fanatic from Texas, a sadomasochistic psychiatrist, and even a pre-op transsexual, to name a few. Ventker's brutally honest memoir lets you step inside her shoes and experience her exciting journey firsthand.