tagged w/ Shawn Alff
-
We’ve all experienced it: an instant connection with a complete stranger that makes you believe in soul mates, destiny, and love at first sight—a feeling so strong you consider leaving everything and running off to Mexico with a virtual stranger. Then there are the moments when you feel in the zone and totally connected with your environment. Click, a new book by the New York Times bestselling authors of Sway, analyzes the mechanics of these magical moments.
When things clicks we feel more alive, more engaged, and more in touch with everything in an almost supernatural way—a description that parallels the use of stimulants like...
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/07/22/the-magic-of-clicking-with-people-like-clockwork-a-book-review-of-click/We’ve all experienced it: an instant connection with a complete stranger that... more
-
-
Someone lied to Julia Silva-Rettig and Kirsten Becker, authors of Our Stimulus Package. Publishing a book is probably the worst thing you can do to combat a shitty economy. Most authors don’t even make enough money to pay for their book tours. Then again, these Tampa women aren’t like other writers. Like Twilight’s Stephenie Meyer, they don’t need original stories or a background in writing to sell books. They are beautiful saleswomen loaded with charisma, networking skills, financial backers and optimism. While their launch party was the first I’ve ever attended that didn’t feature a reading, it was also the most attended; over 100 professionals packed the Tampa Museum of Art buying books like cocktails.
Tell me if this sounds familiar. After sipping a few drinks and swapping dating disaster stories, someone says...
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/06/25/whatever-gets-you-off-the-stimulus-package-of-two-tampa-authors/Someone lied to Julia Silva-Rettig and Kirsten Becker, authors of Our Stimulus... more
-
-
Cooking is seduction. In Cook to Bang, Spencer Walker channels the arousing power of cuisine by coaching novice cooks and seduction artists on how to turn feasting into sex. Walker reinvents the clichéd “wine and dine” style of dating by bringing it home. The advantages of inviting a woman over for dinner rather than taking her out are many. Cooking provides an experience, is cheap, and positions you in striking distance of your bed—it shows a date that you can not only bring home the bacon, you can wrap it around a scallop and sear it to perfection.
Like most naive, horny young men, Walker tried...
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/06/18/book-review-of-cook-to-bang-the-lay-cook%E2%80%99s-guide-to-getting-laid/Cooking is seduction. In Cook to Bang, Spencer Walker channels the arousing power of... more
-
-
-
Jillian Lauren is a modern-day Cinderella — albeit a Cinderella who goes to an unending ball full of hookers and waits to be picked by the prince. After dropping out of high school then college to intern at a New York theater, Lauren starts stripping to pay rent. This transitions to working as an escort, which in turn lands her an offer of $20,000 for two weeks in Singapore as a party guest of a “rich businessman.” This mysterious man turns out to be one of the wealthiest men on the planet: Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/06/01/book-review-some-girls-my-life-in-a-harem/Jillian Lauren is a modern-day Cinderella — albeit a Cinderella who goes to an... more
-
-
Two out of five women suffer from at least one form of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD), with low desire being the most common problem. A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine may have found at least one reason why this number is so high. A strong, positive correlation was discovered between hormonal contraceptives and FSD. Conversely, women who didn’t use hormonal forms of birth control had the lowest risk of FSD, even lower than women who didn’t use any form of birth control.
1,086 female medical students in German completed a questionnaire regarding sexual function. 97.3% of respondents had... http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/05/04/hormonal-contraceptives-linked-to-female-sexual-dysfunction/Two out of five women suffer from at least one form of Female Sexual Dysfunction... more
-
-
“Markley is the quintessential All-American Asshole, a reckless talent who captures the voice of mid-20s millennials so effortlessly that this work will inevitably provoke infinite numbers of wannabes to say, ‘I could have written this book.’” —Shawn Alff, future author of Best Seller, a memoir about how to publish a successful book.
The premature memoir, Publish This Book, opens with the author in limbo between graduating with a financially worthless degree and searching for a career to support his writing addiction. The problem: He’s a white refugee from the middle class who hasn’t
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2010/04/22/publish-this-blurb-a-review-of-publish-this-book/“Markley is the quintessential All-American Asshole, a reckless talent who... more
-
