Hot Flashes: more sexy little stories and poems

We love couplings, and in the spirit of pairs we are offering this deal:

From January 2^nd to February 14^th, 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!

So buy the book for yourself, give the free copy to friend or lover, and join us for a lovely in-store party on 2/12/12 with a reading, entertainment, a sexy raffle and more!

We guarantee wine and chocolate and … who knows? … you might win a super special prize.

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!

Linda Watanabe McFerrin has been traveling since she was two and writing about it since she was six. She is a contributor to numerous literary journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and online publications including the New York Times, theWashington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Modern Bride, San Francisco Bride, Bay Nature, various Travelers’ Tales anthologies, and Salon.com. A popular speaker and panelist and an award-winning writer, she has authored two poetry collections, a novel and a short story collection, and has edited four books, including a northern California guidebook and a travel anthology. Linda has served as an NEA panelist and past judge for the San Francisco Literary Awards, the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence and the Kiriyama Prize, and is founder and President of Left Coast Writers®, LLC.

Laurie McAndish King is a travel writer whose essays have been published in anthologies such as 30 Days in Italy, The Thong Also Rises, and the award-winningThe Kindness of Strangers. Her work has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and aired on KUSF radio. Laurie’s adventurous spirit has led her to chase lemurs through the mountains of Madagascar, study medicinal plants in the jungles of Brazil, track lions on foot-without a gun-in Botswana, study with an urban shaman in San Francisco, and trap and band raptors in the Marin Headlands. Laurie earned her master’s degree in Internet-based education and publishes an online newsletter for travel writers. She is an officer and board member of Bay Area Travel Writers, and indulges her passions for travel and natural history as often as she possibly can.

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.

To register for this workshop, go to: http://www.bookpassage.com/event/linda-watanabe-mcferrin-writing-sexy-stuff

Jessica Shepherd

Would you like to know the secrets to attracting your soul mate and feeling profound love every day? With this hip and fun guide, you’ll learn to use the rules of attraction, magic, astrology, and your intuition to attract the partner of your dreams and experience true, soulful love.

Join the throng at the Left Coast Writers Book Party for Jessica Shepherd, author of A Love Alchemist’s Notebook, on Saturday, May 8th, at 7pm at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, California.

Left Coast Writers will be serving wine as Jessica Shepherd joyfully reveals the Nine Soul Mate Secrets, offering insight into all aspects of creating and maintaining love, such as how to focus on loving yourself, open up to love from others, and trust your intuition. You’ll engage in fun, hands-on spells, rituals, and meditations to explore your heart and grow spiritually. The Nine Soul Mate Secrets will also reveal how to:

• Break bad karmic patterns
• Move beyond difficult relationships
• Learn from past mistakes
• Overcome your fears
• Tap your magnetism with your Venus sign

From avoiding relationship “potholes” to understanding karmic soul mates-and the invaluable lessons that they teach us-to casting love spells under a waxing moon, this love-focused astrology book holds the key to achieving long-lasting love with your true soul mate.

Called “the Carrie Bradshaw of astrology,” Jessica Shepherd is an astrological counselor and teacher. She publishes “Moonkissd,” a bi-monthly astrology newsletter, has a popular blog at astrology.com, and was the featured astrologer at Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Style Swap in San Francisco.

Monday, February 8, 2010, 5:30pm

@Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Plaza

Left Coast Writers® and Book Passage host a reading and pre-Valentines Day treat.

Editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King introduce the Hot Flashes Sexy Little Stories & Poems writers in this literary love fest in honor of Valentine’s Day and Amour!

• Linda Watanabe McFerrin
• Laurie McAndish King
• Kathryn Abajian
• Pamela Bass
• Marianne Betterly-Kohn
• Anjin Jaymes
• Kathleen McClung
• Claire Savage
• Amy Thigpen
• Colleen McFerrin

MADLY IN LOVE WITH ME DAY

This isn’t just another workshop or conference with break out sessions. This is an experience that participants create together – full of interactive talks, live performances and group interaction. In this one-day you will receive:

• Smarter ways to approach your life so that you can do, be and give everything you want, without exhausting yourself in the process.
• The biggest lies women tell themselves, and how to stop being so hard on yourself.
• Methods to keep your feelings of happiness and success high, no matter what your external circumstances.
• Proven processes that make multi-tasking and working through lunch ways of the past, and that make you more effective and successful.
• Easy daily practices to create rhythm and harmony in your life instantly.
• Guidance on how to stop being the generator to power it all and instead tap into energy sources that fuel you.
• Physical connection to your body in such a profound way that it will take the “work” out of working out.
• Reconnect with yourself and your dreams.  Tap back into what is truly important to you.
• A cadre of feminine super powers at your fingertips. Seriously, you won’t know how you ever lived without them!
• Connection to other fabulous women that leaves you energized, feeling supported and more in love with you than you could ever imagine.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER and SEE THE EVENT VIDEO (https://expanding.infusionsoft.com/go/MLMSF/Lone/)

It’s going to be a grand day of self-love! There are only 200 tickets available, so get your ticket early. And, consider upgrading yourself to a VIP Package, which among many other benefits includes 1 of 8 seats at my personal table.

And, If you can’t attend the event live in the Bay Area, you can

• Attend one of the smaller events in Chicago or Orlando, or
• Throw a Madly in Love with ME party of your own, for yourself or your friends, by downloading the free Madly in Love with ME Kit from the website.
• Send this to girlfriends who need a dose of self-love wizardry.

https://expanding.infusionsoft.com/go/MLMSF/Lone/

It’s been said that women will change the world, but if we don’t take care of ourselves, we can’t change anything.—Lone Morch

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO REGISTER https://expanding.infusionsoft.com/go/MLMSF/Lone/

http://www.hotflashessexystories.com

If you have trouble steaming up the page, this is the workshop for you. Spend a day with poet, travel writer and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin 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 from comfort to erogenous zones in no time. Linda’s workshops are a starting point for many successful writers. She’s the founder of Left Coast Writers® and co-editor of the Hot Flashes: Sexy Little Stories and Poems series.

The workshop fee includes, champagne, chocolate, a delicious lunch and a sexy potluck.

Linda is the perfect teacher for this class and topic. She treated us with enormous dignity while maintaining her brilliant sense of irreverence.
– A.B.

Great to get the juices flowing.  Safe, fun, sassy.  I would like to take this class again.
—L.K.

Excellent, quite delicious and informative.
– C.S.

Yummy!
– M.F.

Please join us for the book launch party for An Erotic Alphabet sponsored by Left Coast Writers. Author Laurie McQueen will discuss the joys and perils of writing and editing erotica, and read a few rhymes from An Erotic Alphabet.

Wine will be served, so please bring a designated driver. The party will include a complimentary packet of “Quickies” Chocolate Body Frosting with every purchase of An Erotic Alphabet (just $7.95). This is a one-time-only, perfectly-pre-Valentine’s Day event: together, the book and Quickies will make an unforgettable Valentine’s Day gift for your sweetheart!

Want to really steam up the page? This is the workshop for you. Spend a day with poet, travel writer, novelist and editor, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, loosening up and learning the techniques for sizzle to your work. Spicy, sensual, sometimes funny, the class is full of quick free-writes and entertaining exercises that will have you moving from comfort to erogenous zones in no time. Linda’s workshops are a starting point for many successful writers. They’re exciting, generative and always loads of fun.
She’s the founder of Left Coast Writers® and co-editor of Hot Flashes: sexy little stories and poems.

Linda is the perfect teacher for this class and topic. She treated us with enormous dignity while maintaining her brilliant sense of irreverence.
– A.B.

Great to get the juices flowing. Safe, fun, sassy. I would like to take this class again.
—L.K.

Excellent, quite delicious and informative.
– C.S.

Yummy!
– M.F.

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