from left, Jacqueline Applebee, yours truly, our fab editor Violet Blue, and Scarlet French

The book with all the best bits

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Reading the good bits!

Remember when you were an adolescent, always skipping to the naughty parts of a book, a book you probably weren’t supposed to be reading in the first place. Actually, it was always easy to find the naughty parts because the books, any book any adolescent ever had hold of, would always just fall open to those bits from frequent perusing, if you get my meaning.

Imagine a whole book of nothing but naughty parts! Wow! Does it get any better? That was pretty much the theme of Friday night at Sh! Women's Shop, where our amazing editor, Violet Blue, my sisters in erotica, Jacqueline Applebee and Scarlet French got to read nothing but the best bits from Cleis Books Best Women’s Erotica 2010 and Jaquie gave us a delicious taste of The Best of The Best Women's Erotica, to be released in February.

Along with our enthusiastic audience we gathered in Sh! to drink pink fizz, eat cupcakes and be titillated by story. It was bliss!

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Renee and Joanna and the lovely women at Sh! were hostesses extraordinaire, and I had to be practically shoved out the door at the end of the evening because it was such a great place to be. Sh! is definitely the place to find that perfect naughty gift for someone nice (and might I recommend a copy of BWE2010). I was occupied reading and drinking fizz Friday night, but I’ll be back with shopping list in hand.

Don’t be too disappointed if you missed it. Plans are already in the works for another reading of the best bits in March, with Best of the Best Women's Erotica topping the menu.