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Book Reading in West Hollywood, CA

I know I haven’t been keeping up my blog like I should, so true to my nature as a major procrastinator, I’ll put that doing that off until January 1, 2008. It’ll make a good New Year’s resolution and we’ll see how long it lasts. This gives me a month and a half to get those creative juices going until then.

For now, let’s see, in September, I did a reading in West Hollywood, CA, along with Jolie du Pre (the lovely author and wonderful editor of Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica), Nan Andrews, Jolene Hui, and Fiona Zedde each read an excerpt of our stories from the book at A Different Light Bookstore. I was nervous as hell! I don’t know why because it was my own story that I was reading. It wasn’t like I had to give a speech or anything but getting up in front of an audience and reading about two people having steamy sex in a dressing room was something that I’d never done before. Once I started reading and had people chuckling, I had fun with the story and enjoyed myself.

Kathleen Bradean, an erotica reviewer and author, was in the audience. I had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with her about the writing life. She had some nice things to say about the reading and also gave me some good advice. Afterwards we all had a delicious dinner at a Brazilian restaurant nearby. It was a wonderful experience to dine with and be in the company of the other authors. I sat across from Jolie’s sister, Lisa, and we shared a few alcohol induced giggles as well as some fun conversation.

Once we had our fill of food and drink, we walked over to The Abbey, a popular restaurant and bar. We walked through the patio and went inside. My imagination went wild when I saw several cabana-type hideaways, complete with big pillows and lovely flowing Arabic style drapes. What a sexy place to have a drink and whisper sweet nothings into a lover’s ear! Hmm…maybe in my next story my characters will have to pay a visit to one of those cabanas J