Fortysomething and still single, music-video exec Pia Jamison has given up her grandiose ideas on men and marriage but not motherhood. Her biological clock is on red alert, but after years of self-imposed celibacy she has no clue how to attract the man she needs to get the baby she wants. Help comes in the form of Pia’s savvy assistant, who tricks her boss into attending, under the guise of a business conference, a flirting workshop called Weapons of Mass Seduction. There Pia meets other women looking to amp up their amorous arsenals, including the devastated Texas belle Florence Chase, who’s trying to save her failing marriage; and Rebecca Vossel, a twenty-two-year-old small-town biracial girl who’s dying to release her inner diva.
What they learn about the art of sensuality and flirtation turns them into bona fide bombshells. The three return home, armed and deliciously dangerous, to spectacular results. Florence reunites with her husband, but the new and improved Flo must now determine if she’s staying in her marriage out of happiness or habit. The plain Jane Rebecca has transformed herself into the super-sexed “Becca,” but will she realize when she’s gone to far? And Pia is happily pregnant but unexpectedly falls in love—not with the father of her unborn child but with a sexy and very conservative candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Weapons of Mass Seduction is a fun and sexy book (think of it as a flirting workshop within a novel) that promises to unleash the sensual woman in you!
Dubbed "a writer to watch" by author E. Lynn Harris, Lori Bryant-Woolridge is the author of the best-selling novel, Read Between the Lies.The book was nominated for a Golden Pen Award in 2000. She is a contributing author to several top anthologies including: Best Black Women's Erotica, the award-winning Gumbo: A Celebration of African-American Writing, edited by best-selling authors, E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden, and Brown Sugar 3: Opposites Attract.
Her eagerly awaited second novel, Hitts and Mrs. was released in January 2004 and quickly became a #1 Essence bestseller.
She is a fifteen-year veteran of the television broadcast industry, and is the recipient of an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Writing (1983). Lori is also the cofounder of the Femme Fantastik Tour, a literary tour dedicated to celebrating and empowering women; and the nonprofit organization, Mothers Off Duty, Inc., a group committed to helping teen mothers continue their education. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
She teaches creative writing and often conducts workshops for aspiring authors. She and her family live in New Jersey, where she recently completed her new novel, Weapons of Mass Seduction, which will be published April 17,2007, has been chosen as the Essence Book Club May pick.
