THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO ENHANCING SEXUAL DESIRE '08

Join Rachel Greene Baldino and Judy Ford, authors of the self-help book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire (Penguin, Dec. '07), as they virtually tour the blogosphere in February on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Rachel Greene Baldino was born in Berkeley, California in 1967 and grew up in Iowa City and upstate New York. Her mother, Judy, is a retired editor, and her father Robert, a professor emeritus of French. Her first publication (as Rachel Nora Greene) was Inanna and The Land of No Return: A Poem. It appeared in Parabola magazine (August 1979) when she was nine years old. It was based on her maternal grandfather Samuel Noah Kramer's translations of ancient myths about the powerful Sumerian goddess of love. In 1992, Baldino took a writing class taught by Melanie Rae Thon, who introduced her to the late, much missed, brilliant short story writer Andre Dubus. For several years, Baldino had the honor of participating in the Thursday night writing workshops that Dubus hosted in his living room in Haverhill, Massachusetts. After earning her MSW from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work in 1997 and working in a methadone clinic, Baldino published several articles in The New Social Worker, a national trade journal for social work students and recent social work school graduates. In 2000, White Hat Communications (the same press that publishes The New Social Worker) brought out her first book, Welcome to Methadonia: A Social Worker's Candid Account of Life in a Methadone Clinic. In 2005, after providing counseling to individuals, couples and families in a community-based outpatient mental health clinic, Baldino published her second book, The New Age Guide to Loving Simply: Eliminating Drama from Your Intimate Relationships. That book went out of print only a year or so after publication due to the dissolution of its original publisher. But it lives on (in a slightly modified form) in cyberspace, where it was re-released as an e-book in 2006 by Fictionwise.com with a new title: Loving Simply: Eliminating Drama from Your Intimate Relationships. Baldino has also written online and print articles, including a series of relationship columns for SixWise.com, a health and wellness website. She is a member of The Authors Guild and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Rachel Greene Baldino lives with her husband and their two children in Massachusetts. You can visit her website at http://www.rachelgbaldino.com/. Judy Ford is a nationally recognized family counselor, best selling author and inspirational speaker whose expertise is in empowering individuals and families. She has dedicated her life to family healing and wholeness. Her "Parenting with Love and Laughter" workshops have been attended by thousands of parents. She is also the author of nine bestselling books: Wonderful Ways to Love a Child, Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen: Even When it Seems Impossible, Wonderful Ways to Love a Grandchild, Wonderful Ways to Be a Family, Wonderful Ways to Be a Stepparent, Expecting Baby, Between Mother & Daughter, Getting Over Getting Mad, Single, and Painting the Walls Red. You can visit her website at http://www.judyford.com/. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire Synopsis: Whether the two of you have been together for three years or ten or twenty or thirty, you may have observed that your appetite for lovemaking, and/or your mate’s appetite for lovemaking, ebbs and flows, often depending on what’s going on in your lives at a given time. In fact, there may be times in when your level of sexual desire may be quite high, times when it may be quite low, and times when it may be somewhere in between. Sex is not everything in a marriage, not by a long shot. But the vast majority of couples therapists and relationship experts agree that having a healthy, mutually satisfying sex life is definitely an important part of maintaining your physical and emotional bond as a couple. There are many possible causes (emotional, psychological and/or physical) of fluctuations in a person’s level of desire. But what’s even more important is that there are many highly effective strategies for dealing with these “dips” in desire, ranging from simple, practical ways to tweak your thoughts and feelings about lovemaking to powerfully effective medical treatments. And in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire we discuss all of these intimacy-enhancing, self-esteem-raising, divorce-preventing strategies and treatments in great detail, so that the two of you can decide which options might work best for you and your relationship. From the front cover of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire, by Judy Ford and Rachel Greene Baldino: • Simple, satisfying suggestions that will put you in the mood for love • Pleasurable pointers for lifting a lagging libido • Red-hot strategies to boost your desire From the back cover of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire, by Judy Ford and Rachel Greene Baldino: • Get In The Mood! • Supercharge Your Sex Drive! • Give Your Sex Drive A Boost! You're no idiot, of course. But you can't figure out what happened to your sex drive. You used to be raring to hop in the sack-and now you're struggling to get your groove back… Fuel your passion with the powerful pointers in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: • A balanced understanding of the physical and emotional issues that can affect your sex drive • Intimacy-building strategies for enhancing your relationship • Down-to-earth tips for successfully navigating the six stages of love relationships • Satisfying suggestions that will help you get back in touch with your sensuality. Wake up your libido with tips on … • Getting back in touch with your sexuality • Keeping sex hot-even after you're married with children • Staying emotionally in tune with your partner • Feeling more comfortable with yourself • Planning sexy date nights • Making your sexual relationship with your loving, committed partner a top priority • Discovering and nurturing your personal intimacy style Read the Excerpt! You can feel passionate again. Sexy again. You can get the urge again. Reading this book is the beginning of that exciting, sensuous adventure. It will broaden your relationship and help you reach new heights of pleasure. It you read the book and do hte exercises, you will discover a new dimension of intimacy. The more familiar you are with all the ingredients that go into making a passionate liaison, the better lover you will become and the happier your connection will be. Your relationship is precious; you love your partner and you have enjoyed expressing your love through joyful sexual intimacy. But lately you've been discouraged. The desire you once felt has faded. You'd like to feel the physical spark again, but you're not sure how to revive it or where to begin. Perhaps you're confused and wonder if the sexual pleasure you once shared is gone forever. Perhaps you feel alone in your struggle, not knowing what steps to take. If you have ever felt this way, then let us reassure you that you have come to the right place. This book can help. You are not alone in this dilemma. Most couples go through dry spells, periods of inhibited desire, and lack of emotional and sexual intimacy. There are times when all couples feel distant and not as close as they once did. The good news is that this does not have to remain a permanent conditioni. Couples who are willing to investigate the source of diminished desire, willing to learn new behaviors, and to communicate openly do experience a return to passion. In other words, if you are willing to read this book and do the work, you can revitalize your union. There is hope for the two of you! As you begin reading, you will realize that low desire does not have to be a tragedy. On the contrary, low desire, while troublesome, is a common occurrence in most modern relationships. ******* RACHEL AND JUDY’S LETTERS TO MY LOVER CONTEST!!! Would you like to become involved in Rachel Greene Baldino and Judy Ford’s virtual book tour? Read below how you can! Since February is the time for cupids and hearts and all things romantic and sometimes not-so-romantic, what better time than to write a letter to your lover? On February 1, 2008, Rachel Greene Baldino and Judy Ford, authors of the book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire, are embarking on a virtual book tour around the world collecting letters from bloggers who would like to tell their lovers how they really feel about them – the good and the bad – and become a part of their tour! If you would like to become involved in their contest, this is how it works: 1. Think of the things you would like to say to your lover, but haven’t had the time or the reason, whether it’s to say how much you love them or how they drive you up the wall. Yes, the good and the bad and the funnier or more outrageous the better! Let everything hang out! 2. Do not use names. Name your blog post “Letter to My Lover” and begin your post with “Dear Lover…” They’ll have to guess who it’s for! 3. Post your message on your blog between now and February 14th and send us the exact link to thewriterslife(at)yahoo.com. 4. When we receive your link, we will add it to Rachel and Judy’s tour page at http://www.virtualbooktoursforauthors.blogspot.com/. 5. But, that’s not all! Rachel and Judy will pick one of the bloggers who participate a FREE copy of The Complete Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire! That’s their Valentine’s Day present to you! 6. And…we will promote your blog through our daily promotions using your blog post as part of their virtual book tour, thus bringing you lots of traffic during February! 7. We also ask that you include a jpeg copy of Rachel and Judy’s book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire, in your blog post. You can find their book cover at (address) and link it to (address). 8. All participants will be listed on Rachel and Judy’s tour page so that everyone can read YOUR letters to your lover! That’s all there is to it! Hurry before time runs out. Become involved in a nationwide campaign to tell the world what you think about your lover and see how much fun it will be to read the letters of others. Share your letters and become involved in RACHEL AND JUDY’S LETTER TO MY LOVER CONTEST! RACHEL & JUDY'S LETTER TO MY LOVER VALENTINE'S DAY CONTEST PARTICIPANTS: Charlene Leatherman Rachel and Judy’s virtual book tour will be highly publicized including press releases and other promotions and is brought to you by Pump Up Your Book Promotion, an innovative public relations agency specializing in online book promotion. You can visit their website at http://www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com/. ******* THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO ENHANCING SEXUAL DESIRE VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '08 will officially begin on Feb. 1, 2008 and continue all month. If you would like to follow Rachel and Judy's tour, visit http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/. Leave a comment on her blog stops and become eligible to win a free copy at the end of her tour! One lucky winner will be announced on this page on February 29! ******* Rachel and Judy's virtual book tour is brought to you by Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours at http://www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com/ and choreographed by Dorothy Thompson. Tags: Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours, online book promotion, author publicity, virtual book tour, book promotion, Rachel Greene Baldino, Judy Ford, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire, self-help book, sexuality, sexual+desire, libido, increased sex drive, intimate relationships, sex drive, sexy date nights, sexual relationship