Ladies’ Night Out @ Cindies

 I had yet another salacious Sunday reading! I’d stopped by Cindie’s nearly a month ago just to drop off a press kit, containing a press release for Tribe of One as well as an excerpt from the book, a copy of an erotic short story and an erotic poem.  I had had no idea that this event was in the works at the time; so I think this was meant to be. 

As the audience of women, who all had to pre-register for the event,  started to arrive by 6 pm, they were given a bag of goodies, and given a brief tour of the three vendors who were present: a suggestive underwear vendor, a henna tatto vendor and an adult-themed dessert and candy vendor. The ladies also had their choice of champagne, red wine and/or white wine.  As tempting as those drinks appeared, I abstained, which was ironic since I’d brought my very own decorative plastic wine glass.

 By 6:45, the Ladie’s Night Out workshop began with a very informative session about various, entertaining, sexy and “vagina friendly” products that women could use to heighten their intimate encounters or simply spice up the romance in a long-established relationship.

At the conclusion of that workshop, the Cindie’s employees cleared the table of sex accesory products and raffled off a gift as I set up some of my books and business cards. Once the little intermission was over, I introduced myself and proceeded to entertain the crowd with three chapters from Tribe.  From the very first sentence of the opening chapter, “Life would be so much easier if I weren’t a gay white man trapped in a black woman’s body,” I had the enthusiastic and vocal audience of women laughing and engaged. The other two chapters that I read dealt with the main charcter’s on-line search for the perfect vibrator, followed by her visit to a sex shop to pick up her vibrator along with some related must-have items.

I’m not sure how many purchases I inspired with those two chapters, but I do know that out of all the products I mentioned in my book, Cindie’s had all but one of them available and for sale. Next, I read the short, sweet and raunchy story, “Purple Passion,” which is always a crowd pleaser. 

Afterwards, I stood up to a wonderful burst of applause to which I raised my plastic wine glass of water in response.  I had to quickly break down my sound equipment and clear off the table to make way for the belly dancing workshop that followed.  Although all the Cindie’s employees busied themselves setting up for the belly dance presentation or assisting customers with their purchases, they all took a few seconds to congratulate me on my reading with both managers encouraging me to keep in contact for future events.