We’re at it again! We’re looking for short (1200 words or less) erotic fiction, nonfiction and poetry for the next anthology in the Hot Flashes series, to be published in 2012. Submission deadline: March 31, 2012.
We are not interested in gratuitous sex. We want the erotic framed in a way that is fascinating, entertaining, enlightening, surprising. We want fine writing.
Think: appetite, humor, action, romance, food, travel, nature, personality, nostalgia, culture and counter-culture, mind, body and so on, and add your erotic spin. Continue Reading »
Hot Flashes: more sexy little stories and poems is having a pre-Valentine’s Day Promotion at Book Passage!
We love couplings, and in the spirit of pairs we are offering this deal:
From January 2nd to February 14th, we are having a “buy one, get one free”Hot Flashes: more sexy little stories and poems pre-Valentine’s Day Promotion at Book Passage (415-927-0960). Just let them know that you want a free copy when you purchase! Continue Reading »
Eugène Manet closed his book and gazed around his wife’s well appointed boudoir. The clock on the mantle struck eleven, a late hour for him. Outside the winter rain, lashed by northern winds, slammed against the tightly secured shutters. In front of them, next to the fireplace a cheval mirror reflected Berthe’s intimate sphere, the two of them languishing on a cream-colored sofa, bathed in the amber light from a crackling fire in the grate. Lace curtains filtered the Parisian light during the day. On nights like this one, though, they shielded her from the frigid black window glass. Rosy flowered wallpaper covered the walls. His wife’s lavender perfume momentarily tantalized him, but disappeared when the ashy aroma of burning logs settled in.
Berthe lay with her head in his lap, reading from the book of poetry Édouard had given Continue Reading »
LEFT COAST WRITERS PRE-VALENTINE’S DAY EVENT: Party for the day of the heart, with a few heart-felt readings as well!
Saturday, February 11th|| 7pm Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com
Join us for the ultimate pre-Valentine’s Day party. Hot Flashes editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King and a host of past contributors will serve up wine, chocolate, romance-inducing gifts and some super-sultry works of literature just in time for the special day. Single or paired or in a big group, we want you to come and enjoy the love-ly vibe! Continue Reading »
WRITING SEXY STUFF
with Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Sat, October 29, 2011, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Boulevard
Corte Madera, CA
$105
Spend a fabulous day Writing Sexy Stuff with Hot Flashes: sexy little stories & poems editor, Linda Watanabe McFerrin.
Having trouble steaming up the page? Have a blast loosening up and learning the techniques for adding spicy, sensual, and sometimes funny sizzle to your work. The class is full of quick free-writes and entertaining exercises that will have you moving excitedly into erogenous zones in no time.
Linda is the founder of Left Coast Writers®. Her latest novel, Dead Love(www.deadlovebook.com), a global supernatural thriller and Finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel, was published by Stone Bridge Press in 2010.
DANTE, MAYO AND THE LIBIDINOUS FINNS by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
“Il ya des mains pareilles a des feuille capturees. Et d’autres qui parle sans arret dan leur collerette de rires.”
—Jaime Mais, Au crible de la nuit, 1948
Finland is Western Europe’s northernmost country. Further north than much of Siberia, it hangs, with Sweden, from the horn of the cold Arctic circle, one of a pair of saddlebags straddling the Gulf of Bosnia. All winter days are locked in darkness. In summer, the nights are white, the watery light leaking into dreams and slumbers.
It was June. I was traveling in Scandanavia with Lawrence. Night after night I wrestled with the flickering glare. Sleep-starved, I stumbled from smoldering midnights to shimmering noons, a somnambulist trapped in the endless river that flowed between those twin cauldrons. Lawrence moved through the marathon days with an animal zeal, feasting on big bowls of herring and sour cream, guzzling down strong aqua vitae as if it were water, as if the bleak memory of winter—of hibernation and silence—were locked within him, an unspoken warning and inescapable goad. Continue Reading »
Stone Bridge Press is giving away two tantalizing books for all you lovers of love (or more accurately, SEX) out there. Go to their website to find out how easy it is to win.
The books up for grabs are: The Japanese Art of Sex How to Tease, Seduce, and Pleasure the Samurai in Your Bedroom (Memoirs of a Geisha meets Sex in the City) by Jina Bacarr and Tantra of the Tachikawa Ryu: Secret Sex Teachings of the Buddha by John Stevens.
And, for a darker kind of love, “Friend” Erin Orison (the saucy blogger and protagonist of Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s zombie romance novel, Dead Love) on Facebook for your chance to win a signed limited edition hardcover copy of Dead Love!
In a world where everything is sexualized instead of humanized, I worry that we’ve lost touch with the sweet eroticism in life. To me, being human, life itself is erotic. It’s a being alive to the magical, pulsating, ecstatic body and universe we live and experience through. It’s a way of being in the world in a sensory and tactile way, leading and relating to others with your energy awareness and senses.
But you may not notice. Because you are not home much. In your body. In your flesh. In your senses. And you may be a little afraid of the sexual, creative fire that lives at the core of your being and what it might do, should you fan the flames. Will you explode? Kick your lover out? Binge on sex? Follow your dream? Continue Reading »
Christmas is days away … what to get for the holidays? A copy of Hot Flashes: sexy little stories and poems, of course. Watch as our favorite performance artist, Samantha Chanse, illustrates how to really stuff a Christmas stocking.
Artist Jacqueline Miyata opens her studio again for the holidays. Her work in semi-precious gemstones and metal is a blend of technique and inspiration. On December 11th, she is throwing a party from 1-5pm. If you know her or one of her clients, perhaps you can wrangle an invitation, but we’re just suggesting you try to find out more about it. Continue Reading »
We’re at it again! We’re looking for short (1200 words or less) erotic fiction, nonfiction and poetry for the next anthology in the Hot Flashes series, to be published in 2012. Submission deadline: March 31, 2012.
