Kate White's book How To Set His Thighs On Fire: 86 Lessons on Love, Life, Men, and (Especially) SEX is sitting on our desk. It's been there for about three weeks now. Well, actually we popped it in our bag one day to peruse during an especially busy day of commuting and forgot about it, so only last night during some housecleaning did we find it again. And how timely, given today's item in amNY, wherein the Cosmopolitan editor professes the book was "accidental."

"One day I was talking to my publisher," White explains, "and she said, 'Do you like your job, Kate?'" (This seems to me a silly question, as anyone who has ever talked with White knows that she's deliriously in love with her job.)

So of course White answered, "More than you can imagine–it has been the most delicious, fabulous experience of my life." She then 'jokingly' added, "Someday I want to write a book on How to Set His Thighs on Fire about everything I learned!"

Apparently that's all her publisher needed to hear–the next day she sent a contract over to White's literary agent. "My agent called me and said 'I have a contract for a book I've never even heard of!' And I said, 'maybe it's a mistake!' and she read the title and I said 'oh my God.'"

And naming naming Chapter Four "15 Ways to Tap Your Inner Sex Kitten," Chapter 17 "How to Look as Sexy as J. Lo," and Chaper 62 "The Most Neglected Moan Zone on a Man's Body"? For Kate's sake, we'll let her use the excuse of happenstance. But kudos to her for turning an average 2000-word listicle into 250 pages of third-grade reading level.

Sex! Tips! from Cosmo [Julia Allison, amNY]