Love Handles for the Romantically Impaired

by Laura Jensen Walker

Finding love. Hanging on. Keeping romance burning.Romantically impaired is generally a male disability, right? Sure, but nobody's perfect, not even those Christian females who are looking for love in all the right places. Everyone needs help kindling romance before and after crossing the threshold. (Guys well, they're clueless. So they really need this book!)Yes, there can be a Mr. Right, just not a Mr. Perfect, so throw away that shopping list! Take a hilariously serious look at finding and keeping love for a whole lifetime."Laura Jensen Walker is definitely not humor impaired! Her collection of ring-true, funny stories about dating and marriage offer an honest look at how men and women work out their relationships with fear and trembling-and laughter. When it comes to love, it's all in how you handle it!" Liz Curtis Higgs, author of Help! I'm Laughing and I Can't Get Up"Laura Jensen Walker makes me laugh. Through every page she helps me see the humor in the fact my husband and I could not be more opposite and helps me use that irony to keep the romance simmering!" Mary Hunt, Editor/Publisher, Cheapskate Monthly"You won't be able to pry your hands off Love Handles-, once you get started. Laura's fun, breezy style will keep you turning pages and chuckling aloud with laughter." Becky Freeman, Author of A View From the Porch Swing and Marriage 911

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Award-winning author Laura Jensen Walker has written several books, including the Lefty nominated historical fiction, DEATH OF A FLYING NIGHTINGALE. Dubbed "riveting and affecting" by NYT bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal, this book spotlights a group of real-life overlooked women heroes--the Flying Nightingales--from WWII. An Air Force veteran formerly stationed in the UK, Laura had the great honor of interviewing the last living Flying Nightingale, before she passed.

Bibliophile Laura fell in love with mysteries after reading Trixie Belden in the fourth grade, Her cozy mystery debut, MURDER MOST SWEET (2020) was nominated for an Agatha Award, and her next cozy, THE ALPHABET SLEUTHS, releases in Feb. 2026. Publishers Weekly says about the book: "Walker's feisty, funny, and fully realized seniors easily sit beside the casts of THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB and THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB in the coy pantheon. Readers will be charmed."

THE POSTMISTRESS OF PUDDLINGTON, Laura's second historical novel, features women on the home front in WWII England and releases in August 2026. She is currently at work on a women's fiction novel (aka book club fiction.)

Laura flew a typewriter across Europe in Uncle Sam's Air Force in her twenties, and lived in England for three years where she became a lifelong, tea-loving Anglophile. Shenow lives in Northern California with her Renaissance-man husband and their two rescue pups.

Reviews

[Varci · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were some funny anecdotes that I enjoyed reading but I still don't get what the title has to do with the book. I think it would be more appropriately named, "Humorous Dating and Marriage Anecdotes We Can Most All Relate To." (Excuse the dangling participle.:)