It’s official: I have a dirty mind. On a long bus ride in Italy last summer my mind began overflowing with silly, erotic couplets, and it’s been working overtime ever since. They quickly progressed from tame to torrid (A is for amour; B is for the breast; C is for clitoris) and I realized they wanted to be in a book. So … An Erotic Alphabet will be printed in time for Valentine’s Day; watch this space for information about how to order a copy for your sweetie.
– Laurie McQueen
It was only a matter of time: The Hot Flashes 2 cover image is now available as a poster, or on a mug. While these sexy products are not guaranteed to fulfill your wholesome hankering for everything hot and steamy, warm and juicy, fragrant and tasty … they just might help! Visit our intimate little online shop for a quick look. We’re sure you’ll enjoy having this version of Hot Flashes around, so order a mug for yourself, and one for a friend, too.
You’ve gotta love the Swedes! I flew on SAS last month, and saw this quickie in Scanorama, their inflight magazine:
“You wouldn’t associate good ol’ Apoteket, Sweden’s state-owned pharmacy chain, with lust and passion, but rather with quite straightforward health products and serious staff clad in white coats. But that is about to change. From now on, you can buy dildos, Geisha balls, clitoris vibrators and other designed sexy toys there; ’some of the best products available,’ Apoteket claims.”
Gör det sköna skönare!
“As we read the papers and listen to the news lately, we’ve come to the conclusion that what this world needs is a lot more love.”
—Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King
(from the intro to Hot Flashes: more sexy little stories & poems)
Well, here are some gals who have the right idea. We love the concept; it’s right up our alley. Check out Old Fat Naked Women for Peace!
Now get out there and rock the vote!
Hot Flashes Special:
DARE TO BE BEAUTIFUL – DARE TO BE YOU
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and …
You’ll get $75 off on any photo session @ Lolo’s Boudoir, booked by end of 2008.
So maybe it’s time to discover and unleash those parts of yourself that you’ve kept hidden for too long. Step out of your comfort zone and into your beauty with an intimate photo session. Explore. Express. Embrace your body with an experience that leaves you not only with a series of magical and timeless portraits… but also a deeper, more succulent connection to yourself and your world.
Expert photographer and artist, Lone Mørch (who also happens to have produced the art for our first anthology cover), will be with you every step of the way to create a photographic adventure that reveals the beautiful, confident, and true you.
Check out the gallery. The photos are gorgeous.
Just go to: www.lolosboudoir.com, and tell them we sent you!
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
Come hear—and see—Hot Flashes 2 during the notorious Pub Crawl at San Francisco’s 2007 Litquake. We’ll be reading in the window of Lost Weekend Video on Valencia Street, and have been promised a microphone and speakers so the throngs of people gathered outside on the street can hear, too.
October 13th, 8 pm to 8:45
Lost Weekend Video
1034 Valencia Street
San Francisco
Learn how to expand your writing style to include things taboo and titillating. Join Hot Flashes editor Linda Watanabe McFerrin for another day in the realm of the senses.
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
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 2009. Submission deadline: March 1, 2008.
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.
Please join us for a celebration of the launch of Hot Flashes 2: more sexy little stories and poems on Friday, September 28, at Book Passage in Corte Madera.
Contributors scheduled to read juicy excerpts include Alison Anderson, Ann Garrett, Deborah Griffin, Elizabeth Weaver, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Jill Kelly, Kunal Mukherjee, Laralynn Weiss Rapoza, Lizzie Hannon, Marianne Betterly-Kohn, Pamela Alma Bass, Saul Isler, and Susan Parker.
More information here.
Friday, September 28, 7pm
Book Launch Celebration
Gallery
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista
Corte Madera, CA