LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Dave Seter, author of Night Duty
Dave Seter
Monday, April 12, 2009 || 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com
National Poetry Month gives us an opportunity to celebrate another new poet!
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Kathryn Ridall, editor of When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life
Kathryn Ridall
Saturday, April 10, 2010 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Monday, April 5, 2010 || 7pm ||
Neeli Cherkovski, Author of From the Canyon Outward
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Neeli Cherkovski
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Jacqueline Luckett, author of Searching for Tina Turner
Jacqueline Luckett
Saturday, March 13, 2010 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
As a teenager, Jacqueline enjoyed telling stories to her younger cousins. To this day, they describe her as a master storyteller. So, it wasn’t a surprise to her family when she began writing a novel. She kept diaries, wrote poetry and had stories published in a local newspaper. But Jacqueline put writing aside while attending college. After graduating from California State University, Hayward in sociology, she worked in sales for a major corporation. She married, raised a family and in 1999 took a creative writing class on a dare, from herself, and happily found her love of writing re-ignited.
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: André Le Gallo, author of The Caliphate
André Le Gallo
Monday, March 8, 2009 || 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com
“A tale of intrigue too frightening to believe—and too believable to ignore. But you better believe it, because Le Gallo is the real thing.” —Porter Goss, former Director of the CIA
Monday, March 1, 2010 || 7pm ||
Ying Chang Compestine, Author of A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Ying Chang Compestine
According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food. But not all ghosts are successfully mollified. In this chilling collection of stories, Ying takes readers on a journey through time and across different parts of China. From the building of the Great Wall in 200 BCE to the modern day of iPods, hungry ghosts continue to torment those who wronged them.
Nancy Bruning of Nancercize
Join the conversation on blogtalk radio Thursday, January 28th at 9a.m. PST with Nancy Bruning, creator of Nancercize, and author and LCW founder, Linda Watanabe McFerrin. They’ll be talking about Great Getaways.
Monday, February 8, 2010 || 5:30pm ||
Left Coast Writers at the Ferry Plaza
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
Colette Obrien hosts: Sexy Stories & Poems
Editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King introduce the Hot Flashes Sexy Little Stories & Poems writers in this literary love fest in honor of Valentine’s Day and Amour!
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Paul McHugh, author of Deadlines
Paul McHugh
Saturday, February 13, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
It’s a party!! Join us for major festivities as veteran journalist Paul McHugh celebrates the publication of his new novel, DEADLINES (Lost Coast Press), a tale of murder, conspiracy, and the media. McHugh, a Northern California writer, has worked in journalism for 30 years, eight as a freelancer and 22 at the San Francisco Chronicle where he was an outdoor features writer and editor, focused on sport, environment and state resource issues. Over his career, he wrote for all sections of the paper, including Metro, where he conducted several major investigative series. Adventure has been a way of life for McHugh. He ran his first marathon in 2003, at the age of 53; he celebrated his 50th birthday by kayaking down 270 miles of the Grand Canyon; he was on the first U.S. Kayak Surfing Team when it won a world championship in Ireland in 1988; he arrived in California after wandering across the U.S. on a motorcycle in the summer of 1973. McHugh undertook many outdoor adventures for the Chronicle. The most striking was a 40-day, 400-mile sea kayak voyage from the Oregon Border to San Francisco Bay, resulting in the popular North Coast Series. Over the course of that voyage, McHugh filed 36 print and online stories, four podcasts and five videos. This epic series can be found posted at: www.sfgate.com/northcoast/
Monday, February 1, 2010 || 7pm ||
Alan Rinzler, Consulting Editor
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Alan Rinzler
Alan Rinzler began as a book editor in 1962 at Simon and Schuster and has since worked as Senior Editor at the Macmillan Company, Senior Editor at Holt, Director of Trade Book Publishing at Bantam Books, Associate Publisher and Vice President of Rolling Stone Magazine, and President of the Rolling Stone Book Division Straight Arrow Books. He was also West Coast Editor for the Grove Press, Editor of the Berkeley Monthly, and for the past 17 years has been Senior Editor and then Executive Editor of Jossey-Bass, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons.
Alan has edited and published such authors as Toni Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Claude Brown, Oscar Acosta, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Ludlum, Irv Yalom, Jerzy Kosinski, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Clive Cussler, and others.
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Marsha Black, author of The Accidental Photographer for the Camera Bag
Saturday, January 9, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Marsha Black has always had a textbook in one hand and a camera in the other. She has been photographing the world around her since childhood. Decades later, when her niece asked her what she would do if she didn’t have her camera, her answer was simple: She would never be without it.
Says Marsha, “I think just about anyone who takes a camera on a trip wants to travel with it unencumbered and come home with good photos that can be shared with friends and family. My book, The Accidental Photographer for the Camera Bag, illustrates how to use the camera effortlessly and take good pictures that reflect the passion for travel. The book is aimed at the casual photographer and the techniques described are basic and can be mastered with little practice and used with any camera.”
Colette Obrien
Monday, January 11, 2010 || 5:30pm ||
Left Coast Writers at the Ferry Plaza
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
Colette Obrien hosts: NEVER AGAIN!
Join us at Book Passage in the Ferry Plaza in San Francisco when some of our favorite writers make their resolutions! We definitely think there are some things that do not need to be repeated. Come to listen in and find out just what they are.
Monday, January 4, 2010 || 7pm ||
Susan West, Founding Editor in Chief of Afar and Editorial Consultant
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Susan West
Failure to launch? It’ll never happen with Guest Presenter Susan West.
Susan West is a long-time editorial consultant for magazines and websites. Most recently she was the founding Editor in Chief of Afar, a new magazine whose mission is to inspire and guide those who travel the world seeking to connect with its people, experience their culture, and understand their perspectives. Afar, which launched in August 2009, was named one of the 15 best launches of the year by “Mr. Magazine,” Samir Husni. Susan was also Executive Editor of Smithsonian and a
Nancy Bruning of Nancercize
Join the conversation on blogtalk radio Thursday, December 17th at 9a.m. PST with Nancy Bruning, creator of Nancercize, and author and LCW founder, Linda Watanabe McFerrin. They’ll be talking about family travel … pain or paradise?
Nancy Bruning of Nancercize
Join the conversation on blogtalk radio Thursday, November 19th at 9a.m. PST with Nancy Bruning, creator of Nancercize, and author and LCW founder, Linda Watanabe McFerrin. They’ll be talking about health meltdowns while traveling. If you’ve had one, join the conversation!
A series of workshops set in the South …
April 13-19, 2010
Writing and Photography Workshop with Linda Watanabe McFerrin and featured local photographers …
Charleston and the South Carolina Low Country beckons! Join the organizers of the Southern Sampler Artists Colony on a journey into a place like no other—a place brushed with spirit, dipped in belonging, and brought to life in Gospel, Jazz, Blues, soul food, cooling ocean breezes, wraparound porches, and warm welcomes that begin with y’all. Relax! Let your heart open, soul sing, and spirit soar.
POETRY PUBLICATION WORKSHOP with C.B. Follett, Susan Terris, and Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust
Saturday, November 7, 2009 || 10am – 1pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Learn what to do to get your poetry published in literary journals and other publications. Two experienced poet/editors and one relative newcomer to the poetry scene will address questions related to WHEN, WHERE, HOW, and WHAT to submit, with focus on how to get your work out in the world without stress, fear of rejection, or waste of valuable writing time. When is your work ready to submit? Where should you send it? What is the most efficient way to get the work out? What goes into a submission? Sample cover letters, lists of how-to’s, and website resources will be provided, and an inventory of resource books and sample literary journals will be available for review.
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, author of Love in Translation
Wendy Nelso Tokunaga
Saturday, December 12, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Monday, December 7, 2009 || 7pm ||
Phil Cousineau, Author of The Meaning of Tea: A Tea Inspired Journey
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Phil Cousineau
A Health-filled Holiday and The Meaning of Tea
“When we drink tea with others we shorten the distance between people.”
—Feng Ming-Chung, a Bao Zhong tea grower, in The Meaning of Tea.
Join writer, filmmaker, photographer, teacher and editor Phil Cousineau for an exploration of the history, health benefits, rituals, spirituality and simple pure enjoyment of tea. The Meaning of Tea: A Tea Inspired Journey offers wisdom ideally suited for modern citizens facing the stress of economic uncertainty. San Francisco tea experts James Norwood Pratt and Imperial Tea Court Teamaster Roy Fong are featured in the book. Culled from more than 50 conversations with tea pickers and plantation owners, street sellers, traders, teapot makers and eloquent tea scholars spanning eight countries—from India to Ireland and Taiwan to Tea, South Dakota—readers learn about how tea has brought peace, calm, health, friendship and often wisdom into their lives. The Meaning of Tea (Talking Leave Press, 2009)
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Mary Lou Peters Schram, author of Pursuing Happiness … One More Time
Saturday, November 14, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
LOOKING FOR LOVE AND HAPPINESS
Four women, a dead husband, a not-so-great boyfriend, a little extra weight and lots of money—is this a recipe for joy or disaster?
If a good book and a glass of wine is your idea of happiness, please grab a friend and join us for a delightful evening with local author Mary Lou Peters Schram.
“Although the pursuit of happiness is one of our inalienable rights, nowhere is it guaranteed that we shall catch it. Mary Lou Peters Schram’s witty new novel chronicles the lives of four women, all residents of Shady Acres, an adult community in California’s wine country, as each pursues her own particular vision of happiness.
Colette Obrien Hosts
Monday, November 9, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Left Coast Writers at the Ferry Plaza
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
Join us at Book Passage in the Ferry Plaza in San Francisco when some of our favorite writers get up on the soapbox!
Monday, November 2, 2009 || 7pm ||
Byron Belitsos, Publisher, Origin Press, talks about the complex dance of author and publisher
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Byron Belitsos
Marin-based small press publisher Byron Belitsos of Origin Press will share stories and wisdom drawn from his experiences of the publishing business over the last 15 years—with special focus on his perceptions of the many authors with whom he has worked. Belitsos has edited and published books on health, consciousness, spirituality, and politics, including Faith and the Placebo Effect by Lolette Kuby, Mind Science by Charles Tart, The Unfolding Self by Ralph Metzner, and Waking Up in Time by Peter Russell. He has also played the roles both of coauthor and publisher for several
For an evening of readings, laughter, wine and more wine, why don’t you come to Writers with Drinks after Litquake’s Off the Richter Scale reading on Saturday? OTRS ends at 6pm and we begin at 7:30! Come early for a good table. A line-up of awesome presenters. Check it out.The long-running spoken word series Writers With Drinks has finally gone too far—in every possible direction!
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Stan Goldberg, author of Lessons for the Living, an evening of laughter, tears, music and wine
Stan Goldberg
Saturday, October 10, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Join Left Coast Writers Pamela Bass, Laurie McAndish King and others for an evening of challenging, amorous, dangerous, elegant, amusing, courageous, poignant, and possibly downright foolhardy women’s travel adventures. Local contributors to Travelers’ Tales’ The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2009 will read at the Larkspur Library, 400 Magnolia Avenue on Thursday, October 8 at 7 p.m. 
Colette Obrien
Don’t miss tonight’s event at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Plaza as Left Coast Writers Paul McHugh, Maria Finn, Diana Kelly, Marylou Schram and Linda Watanabe McFerrin read tales of “Trauma and Drama” at 5:30 pm. Colette Obrien hosts. Join some of the readers after the event for a toast and literary chat.
Monday, October 5, 2009 || 7pm ||
Mary Roach, Author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Mary Roach
Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Stiff has been translated into 17 languages, and Spook was a New York Times Notable Book of 2005. Bonk was chosen as a 2008 best book by the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Louis-Post Dispatch, and the Boston Globe. Mary has written for Outside, National Geographic, Wired, New Scientist, The New York Times Magazine, and NPR’s “All Things Considered,” among many others. She is a contributing editor at the science magazine Discover, a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let’s be honest, she was the sole entrant. More info at www.maryroach.net
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Bill Keener, author of Gold Leaf on Granite and Kathryn Ridall, author of The Way of Stones
Saturday, August 8, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Celebrating the new work of two poets …
William Keener
William Keener has been writing and publishing poetry for the past ten years. He is also an environmental lawyer, and the former director of the Marine Mammal Center in the Marin Headlands. His first chapbook, titled Three Crows Yelling, was co-authored with Marin County poets Bill Noble and Michael Day in 2000. Tonight we celebrate the launch of his first solo collection of poetry Gold Leaf on Granite, which recently won the annual Anabiosis Press contest.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 || 7pm ||
Ayelet Waldman, Author of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Clamities and Occasional Moments of Grace, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman is the author of The New York Times bestseller Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter’s Keeper and the Mommy-Track Mysteries. Her personal essays have been published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazine, including The New York Times, the Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, Elle Magazine, Vogue, Allure, Cookie, Child, Parenting, Real Simple, Health and Salon.com. Her radio commentaries have appeared on “All Things Considered” and “The California Report.” Ayelet’s missives also appear on Facebook and Twitter. Her books are published throughout the world, in countries as disparate as England and Thailand, the Netherlands and China, Russia and Israel.
Monday, August 3, 2009 || 7pm ||
Scott Rosenberg, author of DREAMING IN CODE and SAY EVERYTHING: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Brought couples together and torn them apart. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate, and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Regularly dismissed as trivial and ephemeral, they have proved that they are here to stay.
Monday, July 6, 2009 || 7pm ||
Andy Ross, Agent at Andy Ross Literary Agency
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Andy Ross
Andy Ross has worked in the book business for 36 years, all of his working life. He was owner and general manager of Cody’s Books in Berkeley, California from 1977-2006. Cody’s has been recognized as one of America’s great independent book stores.
During this period, Andy was the primary trade book buyer. This experience has given him a unique understanding of the retail book market, of publishing trends and, most importantly and uniquely, the hand selling of books to book buyers.
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Rebecca Foust, Mom’s Canoe
Saturday, June 13, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Left Coast Writer Rebecca Foust will read from her new book, Mom’s Canoe, at Book Passage on Saturday, June 13, at 7:00 pm, with champagne and Ruli’s cookies to follow during the book signing. Mom’s Canoe, winner of the 2008 Rpbbert Phillips Chapbook Prize, collects poetry about the author’s childhood in western Pennsylvania, an area devestated by the decline of the coal mining and railroading industries of the last century. Foust’s first book, Dark Card, sold out of its first print run and was reviewed in more than 20 journals including American Book Review, Hudson Review and Rattle; the reviews are posted at www.rebeccafoust.com .
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Patricia Ljutic. Laura Shumaker and other Contributors to A Cup of Comfort® for Parents of Children with Special Needs.
Patricia Ljutic
Saturday, July 11, 2009 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Patricia Ljutic is joined by four other Bay Area writers: Jennifer Gunter, Jolie Kanat, Harriet Heydemann Cellini and Laura Shumaker, who will read from A Cup of Comfort® for Parents of Children with Special Needs ($9.95). The anthology contains fifty stories by parents who have struggled with a child’s diagnosis only to embrace and celebrate the differences that make their children that much more special—and even more loved. Edited by Colleen Sell this unique story collection offers inspiration for parents of children with cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, seizure disorder and autism.
A Cup of Comfort for Parents of Children with Special Needs
Monday, June 1, 2009 || 7pm ||
Christi Phillips, Author of The Devlin Diary and The Rossetti Letter
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
The Devlin Diary
Christi Phillips will discuss the research and creation of her popular novels. She is the author of The Rossetti Letter, which has been translated into six foreign languages. Her research combines a few of her favorite things: old books, libraries, and travel. When she’s not rummaging around in an archive or exploring the historic heart of a European city, she lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is at work on her next novel, set in France.
Monday, April 6, 2009 || 7pm ||
April Eberhardt, Agent at Reece Halsey North
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
April Eberhardt
April Eberhardt joined Reece Halsey North as a Literary Agent in 2008 after five years of editorial work with Zoetrope: All-Story, a literary magazine, and another agency. Her specialty is adult literary fiction, particularly ironic family dramas and realistic midlife tales, often with a twist, preferably involving strong female characters. She is attracted to collections of interlinked stories with a common character or theme. An original voice and smart, speedy delivery are critical, as is a subtle sense of the absurd. She enjoys working with new authors to edit and streamline their manuscripts before submitting them to publishers. April does consider selected non-fiction works. She does not represent mysteries or murders, thrillers, historical fiction or fantasy, nor does she represent children’s titles.
The Best Women's Travel Writing
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2009 (Travelers’ Tales)
Saturday, March 14 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Here’s the exciting line-up for The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2009 party on Saturday evening: Laurie McAndish King—tracking lions on foot in Botswana, Natalie Galli—enjoying the delicious spectacle of Easter in Sicily, Ginny Horton—finding her inner Coco at the Paris Ritz, Marybeth Bond—learning more than Spanish in Mexico, Nicole Zimmerman—adventuring to the extreme in New Zealand, Kathryn Kefauver—guarded by monks in Laos, Pamela Alma Bass—developing perspective on “Angels” in Mexico. Publisher Larry Habegger will be on hand to answer questions about the anthology and upcoming Travelers’ Tales titles.
Monday, March 2, 2009 || 7pm ||
David Poindexter, MacAdam/Cage, Founder and Publisher
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Join us in an evening with David Poindexter, MacAdam/Cage founder and publisher.
After twenty years in the commercial printing industry, David Poindexter, inspired by his lifelong love of reading, decided to start an independent trade publishing house. In 1998, he founded MacAdam/Cage in order to bring new voices to the literary marketplace.
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Roccie Hill, Author of Three Minutes on Love.
Roccie Hill
Saturday, January 10 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
Roccie Hill talks about Three Minutes on Love. Rosie leaves her desert town to chase her dreams in 1960s S.F. She has a chance encounter with an illegal immigrant who publishes a music magazine. He gives Rosie her first job, photographing a legendary blues guitarist, catapulting Rosie into a hot career on the scene.
ABOUT ROCCIE HILL:
Monday, January 12, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: From the Surreal to the Fantastic
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: From the Surreal to the Fantastic
Readers so far: Ethel Mays
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, January 5, 2009 || 7pm ||
Camille Cusumano, Author of Tango, an Argentine Love Story
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
Please join us in a scintillating start for the New Year at the first Left Coast Writers Literary Salon of 2009! Camille Cusumano will light up the evening with a talk about her love of literature and her passion for tango. Camille has even promised a short tango demonstration. You may bring guests to this event. After all, they say it takes two …
Monday, February 9, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Battle of the Sexes
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Battle of the Sexes
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, March 9, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Poetic License
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Poetic License
Readers so far: Rebecca Foust, Elaine Bond
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, April 13, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Intoxicating Ideas
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Intoxicating Ideas
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, May 11, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: On Scent and Sensation
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: On Scent and Sensation
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, June 8, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Colorful Stories
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Colorful Stories
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, July 13, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: The Great Outdoors
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: The Great Outdoors
Readers so far: Bill Keener, Susan Alcorn
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, August 10, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Wipe Outs
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Wipe Outs
Special Guests:
Paul McHugh
Monday, September 14, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Trauma & Drama
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Trauma & Drama
Readers so far: Griffin Dix, Jane Straus
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, October 12, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Grizzly Tales
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Grizzly Tales (and other spooky Halloween reminders)
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, November 9, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: On the Soapbox
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: On the Soapbox
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Monday, December 14, 2009 || 5:30pm ||
Reading: Home Sweet Home
Book Passage – Ferry Plaza
Ferry Plaza, San Francisco
On the second Monday of every month Left Coast Writers read from their favorite work. Colette Obrien hosts.
This month: Home Sweet Home
Readers so far:
Please contact us (leftcoastwriters@aol.com) to sign up to read.
Laurie McQueen presents An Erotic Alphabet on 2/7/09
Laurie McQueen will present An Erotic Alphabet ($9.95) at Book Passage on February 7 at 7 p.m.. This book of rhymes celebrates eroticism in all its forms, from silly to sensual, playful to to x-rated. Laurie reveals the surprising joy she discovered by liberating her “dirty mind” and embracing sexuality … and invites you to join her in the gentle sport of rhyming. This book will be printed in a very limited quantity; please pre-order for Valentine’s Day.
Monday, February 2, 2009 || 7pm ||
Niloufar Talebi, award winning editor and translator of Belonging New Poetry By Iranians Around the World.
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
In this time of great international misunderstanding, many things are “lost in translation.” Join us for an exciting and truly enlightening evening that will add a little clarity and introduce new voices with important things to share.
LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH: Writer Michael Shapiro and photographer Kraig Lieb with their new book Guatemala: A Journey Through the Land of the Maya.
Saturday, November 8 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
“This hauntingly beautiful book has brilliantly captured the current-day life and culture of the Maya in Guatemala. Michael Shapiro’s text and Kraig Lieb’s photos will cement their reputations as among our leading travel writers and photographers.”
—Arthur Frommer, founder, Frommer’s Guides
LEFT COAST WRITERS® BOOK LAUNCH: Poet BECKY FOUST and “Dark CARD” (Texas A & M University Press Consortium, 2008), her award-winning chapbook.
Rebecca Foust, poet and author of award-winning chapbook,
Saturday, September 13 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com
“These poems will break and heal your heart, their rage, hope, insight and love carried by a poetic power as targeted as a bullet-train! ”
Barry Spacks, First Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara and
Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medalist
Bob Tripp and his new novel, Last Clear Chance
Saturday, August 9, 2008 || 7pm
Book Passage – Corte Madera || Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
www.bookpassage.com
Join aeronautical engineer, test pilot and author, Bob Tripp, for the launch of his suspenseful new novel, “Last Clear Chance” – a tale about airplane disaster and recovery.
Tripp is the perfect person to write this novel. He began flying at the age of 16, graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering, spent 30 years as a pilot for Western Airlines and Delta, and has more than 25,000 hours flying and testing a wide range of aircrafts from experimental and home-built, to Lear Jets, Boeing 747’s and DC-10’s.
Monday, August 4, 2008 || 7pm ||
Rita Lakin, screenwriter and author of “Getting Old is the Best Revenge”
Book Passage – Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera ||
More writing is being done for the screen than ever before. Would you like to get a successful professional’s tips and advice about the ins and outs of that market?
If so, be sure to come to our Left Coast Writers Literary Salon on Monday, August 4, 2008, at 7pm in the Gallery at Book Passage in Corte Madera for a dynamic presentation by author/screenwriter RITA LAKIN!
In the Gallery: Colette Obrien talks about Time and Transformation: A Novel of Mayan Mysticism. Set within the myths and concepts of the Classic Maya, 700 AD, the feminine and masculine have been separated at the level of divinity for eons. A pair of female/male twins must discover how to bring the sexes back togehter and save their culture from extinction.
APRIL 14 5:30pm
LEFT COAST WRITERS® READING SERIES at the FERRY PLAZA
TOPIC: PURE POETRY
READERS: BECKY FOUST, GAIL FLYNN and ELAINE BOND
Monday, April 14, 2008 5:30pm ||
Book Passage-Ferry Plaza || One Ferry Plaza #46, San Francisco
For Info: See Book Passage or mailto: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Our Poetry Reading Series are one of our most popular events. Come listen to award-winning poet, Becky Foust, as she reads pieces from her new book of poetry, “Dark Card” (due out in May, 2008 by Texas Review Press) on raising a son with Asperger’s Syndrome, along with Gail Flynn and Elaine Bond.
Christine Krieg, our LCW photographer, has just uploaded the photos from that great Salon with Jane Juska. Click here to view (and order prints) of these photos and others from previous LCW events.
By the way, Christine takes excellent portraits for your author photos and does wedding photography.
Monday, April 7, 2008 7pm
Wendy Merrill, Author of Falling into Manholes
Book Passage || 51 Tamal Vista Dr., Corte Madera
For Info: See Book Passage or 415-927-0960
Meet Wendy Merrill, a quirky, attractive, in-recovery-from…well, you can pretty much name it…who, while seemingly on the quest for her perfect mate, keeps falling into manholes. After losing herself in an endless series of attachments, this serial mater comes to see how her relationships with men are indicative of all her relationships – with alcohol, food, drugs, family, friends, and most of all, herself.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Karen Templer, Editor in Chief and Doug Cruickshank, Features Editor of Readerville online
Editor in Chief, Karen Templer, and Features Editor, Douglas Cruickshank will talk about Readerville, the content and the community.
In the nearly 8 years since Readerville first appeared online, it has taken many forms. It was first a place where readers and writers and publishing insiders could meet each day to find out what’s interesting in the world of books. In 2001 a full-fledged online bookstore was added and Readerville began publishing content. In 2002 the bookstore went away and a print magazine was launched, called The Readerville Journal. The Readerville Journal ceased publication in 2003, but the website survived and continues to be the wacky and thought-provoking community it started out as.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Kemble Scott, Author of SoMa
Kemble Scott is the author of the bestselling novel SoMa. A longtime journalist before turning to fiction, Kemble has three Emmy awards for his work in television news. He also helps run San Francisco’s literary festival Litquake, and he’s the editor of the monthly e-zine SoMa Literary Review and the weekly email blast SF Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter.
SoMa tells the interwoven stories of young people of the tech-driven “millennials” generation on a journey of thrills and self-discovery in San Francisco’s notorious South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood. The novel is based on the true tales of the city. Publishers Weekly describes SoMa as “a fun, frisky novel of shock horror.”
Monday, February 4, 2008
Jane Juska, Author of A Round Heeled Woman and Unaccompanied Women
Born in 1933, Jane Juska is an old person but a new writer. Her first book, A Round-Heeled Woman, was published in 2003, followed in 2006 by Unaccompanied Women. Before that, she taught English for forty years in high school, college, and prison. Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies. She is working on a novel. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Monday, December 10
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Seasonal Cacophony
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, November 12
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Family Therapy and Other Relative Disasters
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, October 8
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Spooky Stories
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, September 10
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Epiphanies
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, August 13
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, July 9
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Food Fixations
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, July 2, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Victoria Shoemaker
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Victoria Shoemaker has over 30 years experience in bookselling and publishing. Her experience includes retail bookselling, book development, editing, promotion and publicity. She was co-founder of Sand Dollar Books and Bay Bridge Books in the Bay Area, and a consultant for North Point Press. She developed and ran the nationally recognized author reading series at Black Oak Books in Berkeley. She was a founding partner in Shoemaker/Handel Publicity Services. She joined The Spieler Agency in 1994 as the West Coast representative. Areas of interest include environment and natural history, popular culture, memoir, photography and film, and literary fiction.
Monday, June 11
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Hitting the Road (Travel)
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, May 14 5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: All About Me: Memoir
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Saturday, April 7, 7PM
Book Passage || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. || Corte Madera, CA
For Info: Book Passage
From MICHAEL SHAPIRO:
I’m coordinating a benefit with Prosper Ndabishuriye to rebuild homes in Burundi. Prosper is a director of a home-building project in Burundi’s Camara area, bringing together Hutu and Tutsi youth to construct homes for some of the country s thousands of refugees. During the 1990s, Burundi was devastated by civil wars similar to those in Rwanda, but Prosper’s group is building homes and giving employment to young men and women.
Martin McDonagh is “The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea!.. A born storyteller.” – The New York Times.
Wed. through Sun. until April 15
Berkeley City Club
Tues. through Sun. April 19 – 29
Magic Theatre in San Francisco
Tickets $20 – $30 Discounts available
Tickets and information: http://wildeirish.org and 510-644-9940.
From HILLARY FLYNN:
If you’ve seen Pillowman, the award winning Beauty Queen of Leenane or any other McDonagh plays you won’t want to miss Wilde Irish Production’s The Cripple of Inishmaan. If you missed Pillowman, now is your chance to see another of Martin McDonagh’s masterful black comedies. The Cripple of Inishmaan has just as many twists and turns as Pillowman, and is hilarious and just as satisfying.
If you didn’t get to the Monticello for our March LCW Book Launch party for Mark Shaw and his latest book, Melvin Belli: King of the Courtroom, you missed a real treat.
Mark is a fabulous storyteller, and he brought the legendary San Francisco attorney, Melvin Belli, to life. Belli changed the landscape of law. He showed lawyers the power of storytelling and, in the words of Shaw, there were “so many stories about his courtroom antics, battles with judges and lawyers alike, and a personal life that seems more like fiction than fact,” that it was challenging to write his biography.
Monday, April 2, 2007 7pm
Book Passage – CORTE MADERA || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. || Corte Madera
For Info: Book Passage or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Broadcast journalist and Emmy-winner, Jan Yanehiro has skydived with the Army’s Golden Knights and ventured up a frozen waterfall!all in the name of getting a good story! Jan pioneered the magazine format on television as co-host of Evening Magazine, a nightly program in San Francisco from 1976-90.
In honor of National Poetry Month, we will be in a Poetic Frenzy as this star-studded cast of Left Coast Writers poets read their work. For a special treat Dusty Miller will be performing her songs before the reading so come early!
Monday, April 9 5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Poetic Frenzy
Poets: Dusty Miller (Elaine Bond), Iris Joan Price, Lowry McFerrin, Rebecca Foust, Adrienne Amundsen, Marianne Betterly Kohn, Elizabeth Weaver, Colleen McFerrin, Mary Jean Pramik, Demian Entrekin
Book Passage – FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, June 4, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, July 2, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, August 6, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, October 1, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, November 5, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, December 3, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, February 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Romance: Is It Love?
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, January 15, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Risky Resolutions
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, March 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Just My Luck
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA Â
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.comÂ
Monday, April 9, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Poetic Frenzy (National Poetry Month)
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, May 14, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
All About Me: Memoir, Momoir, and Personal Essay
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA Â
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.comÂ
Monday, June 11, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Hitting the Road (Travel)
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA Â
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.comÂ
Monday, July 9, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Food Fixations
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, August 13, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, September 10, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Epiphanies
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, October 8, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Spooky Stories
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, November 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Family Therapy and Other Relative Disasters
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, December 1, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Seasonal Cacophony
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, March 5, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Brian Tacang, Author
“Bully-Be-Gone” from the Misadventures of Millicent Madding series
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, February, 5, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Dianne Jacob, Author
“Will Write For Food”
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Left Coast Writers Book Launch Series, 5:30pm
“Venturing Through Southern Greece: The Vatika Oddesseys”
edited by Barbara Euser and Connie Burke
Monticello Inn
121 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CAFor more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
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