I've just written a piece about how I met my Cariad as my entry for this call for submissions. The project sounds interesting, if any other woman fancies a go:

SHE SAID, SHE SAID: Selected Essays from Enlightened Eves to Clueless Adams
(What Women Really Talk About Behind Closed Doors)

Coming in the Fall of 2008, women around the world speak out in the controversial and eye-opening anthology,
SHE SAID, SHE SAID. Tired of volume after volume on what men absolutely have to have to be satisfied with the women in their lives, we decided it was time to flip the script. Since men selectively listen, we've selected essay prompts designed to push the envelope and help them find their way inside from the dog house. Now all they have to do is roll over, sit up and pay attention...just like Spot.

Ladies, bring it and your essay could be chosen for SHE SAID, SHE SAID.

In 2000-3000 words, respond to the essay prompt that speaks to you. What we'd especially like to see is a well
written narrative account of your experience, along with commentary on how you overcame your dilemma and
the positive lesson(s) you learned because of it. Try to refrain from male-bashing, please. We want our audience to personally connect with you and the message you're conveying. Of course, an epiphany or two would be nice, as well. Write to answer the question, "What do women really want?" Be as witty, satirical and/or humorous as you dare!

Second round of submissions accepted January 15, 2008 - May 15, 2008. Email submission(s), including a
brief bio and contact information to editors@brownreclusebooks.com. Please note: essay text must be
pasted into the body of the email, as attachments will not be opened. All (female) Writers Welcome!

http://www.brownreclusebooks.com/CallForSubmissions.html

...and no prizes for guessing the 'inspiration'!

Celia was also aware that Gareth Pritchard, (Sociology lecturer and voluntary youth worker) had his interest in Ursula triggered by her victimisation by those awful anti-English idiots but thoughts of Ursula could still reduce Celia to alternative hot flushes of shame and the cold sweat of fear that anyone should know of her appalling betrayal of a woman who had seen her only as a friend.

Ursula and William had trusted them and Gareth and Celia had actually had sex in the church hall! If it had been just the once it would be easier to dismiss as an aberration but it was more than that – Why, they’d even considered running away together although thankfully Celia was often to recall, she’d pulled them back from that brink of madness. The sex was good but that wasn’t it…

Perhaps it came back to the princess thing… It was obvious that William loved her but Gareth had had the knack of making her feel like a princess.

She would not have admitted it to anyone but the ‘rescue’ of Sally in all her finery in the Sealed Knot re-enactment had stirred something romantic and sexual in Celia. As a child she would often imagine herself as a princess on horseback and as she got older the idea of being rescued by a prince became more appealing… Of course she wasn’t jealous of the younger Sally’s looks and romantic ‘rescue’ but she could imagine it happening with her as the damsel thrown from her horse… Celia saw no connection between this repressed fantasy and her ‘falling’ for the man who was so central to ‘rescuing’ her as the distraught mother of an unhappy teenager. Celia was never very hot on insight – at least not about herself. Now the motivations of family, friends and of course her big sister – no problem! When it came to more personal insight Celia could be just a touch myopic.