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.

Please mail hard copy of your submission, along with a short bio, to:
Hot Flashes 3
Left Coast Writers
484 Lake Park Avenue, #29
Oakland, CA 94610

If your work is selected for publication, we will request a Word RTF (rich text format) document via e-mail or on disk.

Thanks so much!

The eds.

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!

http://www.deadlovebook.com/dead-love-my-zombie-valentine/

Winners will be notified on Monday, Feb 21st.

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

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Artist Jacqueline Miyata opens her studio again for the holidays. Jacqueline’s work in semi-precious gemstones and metal is unique, organic and inspired by the beauty of the natural world. Her versatile pieces are truly a blend of technique and inspiration. Miyata specializes in hand wrought chain, often creating custom designs in a variety of metals. This is not jewelry for shrinking violets. It’s bold and beautiful … like the women who find it irresistible, great when you want to make a dramatic statement or or leave an impression that lingers. Jacqueline Miyata’s work is available through the artist (jbmiyata@comcast.net) or at one of her exclusive Open Studios.