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.

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.

Watch San Francisco Bay Area comic/performance artist Samantha Chanse demonstrate: How to Stuff A Christmas Stocking.

If you’ve ever had 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 to add a spicy, sensual, and sometimes funny sizzle to your literary 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 have been a starting point for many successful writers. She’s the founder of Left Coast Writers and co-editor, along with Laurie McAndish King, of the Hot Flashes: Sexy Little Stories and Poems series. This is Linda’s favorite workshop … it’s a celebration of sorts and it ends with a glass of champagne.

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.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Book Passage
41 Tamal Vista Boulevard
Corte Madera, CA
510-534-2866
www.bookpassage.com
$95

Sappho, Nabokov, Lawrence, Duras, Nin, figs, mangos, jazz, orchids, silk, leather—bring your favorite passion (literature, music, food); we’ll provide the setting and a sensual roadmap into a tempting, often unexplored piece of the literary world. You might even find your work in the next edition of Hot Flashes, the popular erotica series from Left Coast Writers®.

Our day will conclude with champagne and chocolate and a lovely erotic buffet—of course!

10 am to 5 pm; choose any of these three dates:

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008

$125/ Limited Space
To sign up or reserve a spot: leftcoastwriters@aol.com.

Read the work of workshop graduates in:
Hot Flashes: sexy little stories & poems and
Hot Flashes 2: more sexy little stories and poems

Here’s what participants are saying:

Three pages filled with sizzling, sensual, show-stopping stories and ideas for stories. The champagne. The show and tell. The chocolate cake. Perfection itself!
–La Volpina Furba a.k.a The Roguish Vixen a.k.a Arlene del Orbe

Outgoing, bubbly and fun. It helped remind me of the utter joy of writing.
–Lynn Weiss

This was a wonderful experience: a class of women and me, talking erotica. Are you kidding? For a writer, a male writer, a beautiful experience.
–Mark Haggarty

Brilliant and fun!! Incredibly helpful. I wished we had more time!
–Pamela Weymouth