Left Coast Writers® Live: Jessica Shepherd on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, June 14th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers® Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be Left Coast Writer®  Jessica Shepherd, author of Venus Signs: Discover Your Erotic Strengths and Secret Desires Through Astrology.

Use the wisdom of your Venus sign to create, laugh, and love with irresistible confidence. For millennia, Venus swaggered through the history books with unrivaled self-possession and sexual self-confidence. Yet many women today have lost touch with the very aspects of their inner selves that Venus represents: pleasure, joy, self-worth, sexual vitality, and eroticism. In Venus Signs, Jessica Shepherd breathes life back into the Goddess.

Whether you’re recovering from heartbreak or in need of a jolt of joy, beauty, and truth about who you truly are, Venus power will help (more…)

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Book Launch: Venus Signs by Jessica Shepherd

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Jessica Shepherd, Author of Venus Signs: Discover Your Erotic Strengths and Secret Desires Through Astrology

Jessica Shepherd
Jessica Shepherd

Saturday, June 13th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Use the wisdom of your Venus sign to create, laugh, and love with irresistible confidence. For millennia, Venus swaggered through the history books with unrivaled self-possession and sexual self-confidence. Yet many women today have lost touch with the very aspects of their inner selves that Venus represents: pleasure, joy, self-worth, sexual vitality, and eroticism. In Venus Signs, Jessica Shepherd breathes life back into the Goddess.

Whether you’re recovering from heartbreak or in need of a jolt of joy, beauty, and truth about who you truly are, Venus power will help (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Passing on Curves by Craig McLaughlin

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY:  Passing on Curves: While Death Rides Shotgun by Craig McLaughlin

Craig McLaughlin
Craig McLaughlin

Monday, June 8th, 2015 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

In gripping essays from his stage performances, Craig McLaughlin travels a road where death lurks around every turn. Craig McLaughlin is born with hemophilia, plays with tigers, is menaced by his stepfather, contracts HIV from tainted blood products, nurses his wife through breast cancer, and emerges with (more…)

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Literary Salon: David Downie

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON:  David Downie, Author of A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light

David Downie
David Downie

Monday, June 1st, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light is a combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, an irreverent quest to uncover why Paris is (or is claimed to be) the world’s most romantic city—and has been for over 150 years.

A Passion for Paris is about Paris’s secluded, atmospheric parks, artists’ studios, cafes, restaurants and streets little changed since the 1800s, a treasure hunt exuding romance. The art and architecture, the cityscape, riverbanks, and the unparalleled quality of daily life are part of the romantic equation.

But the city’s allure derives equally from hidden sources: (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: Elaine Bond on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, May 17th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers® Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be Left Coast Writer®  Elaine Bond, author of Affimals: Affirmations + Animals and photographer for The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks.

Elaine Miller Bond is the photographer of the book, The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks (University of Utah Press), featuring over 150 images of rare prairie dogs in their natural habitat. Her nature and wildlife photographs have appeared on the Discovery Channel Canada and in Science, (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Laila El-Sissi, Author of Out From The Shadow Of Men

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY:  Laila El-Sissi, Author of Out From The Shadow Of Men

Laila El-Sissi
Laila El-Sissi

Monday, May 11th, 2015 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

“The shadow of a man is better than a roof over the head.”
This Arabic proverb has long described the plight of women in Egypt. Like the classic Pyramids of Giza, the culture of Egypt for the most part stands unchanged. Egyptian men continue to use the banner of Islam and antiquated interpretation of the Quran to justify controlling women. Egyptian women continue to believe God has ordered men to do so. Yet Laila El-Sissi broke the pattern.
Forty years ago, when Laila, a shy and malleable 15-year-old, and her more rebellious 16-year-old sister Rawyia learn that they are betrothed to men they have never met, they refused to live in the prison constructed by their society, hoping for a better life than that of their mothers and aunts. Running from their tyrannical father, an abusive brother, and arranged marriages to men twice their age, Laila (more…)
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Book Launch: The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks with Photography by Elaine Bond

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Elaine Bond, Photographer for The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks

Elaine Miller Bond
Elaine Miller Bond

Saturday, May 9th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Lovers of nature and its denizens will enjoy themselves when Elaine Miller Bond, photographer, shares her work in The Utah Prairie Dog: Life among the Red Rocks (University of Utah Press), featuring over 150 images of rare prairie dogs in their natural habitat. Her nature and wildlife photographs have appeared on the Discovery Channel Canada and in Science, NPR, BBC Earth News, The American Naturalist, The Washington Post, Squirrels of the World (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology, 4th ed (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and other popular and scientific media.

Bond is also the author/illustrator of AFFIMALS: AFFIRMATIONS + ANIMALS (LIT Verlag, 2009) and (more…)

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Literary Salon: Frances Caballo

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON:  Frances Caballo, Social Media Strategist and Author of Avoid Social Media Time Suck: A Blueprint for Writers to Create Online Buzz for Their Books and Still Have Time to Write

Frances Caballo
Frances Caballo

Monday, May 4th, 2015 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

This is a must for any writer wrestling with social media or the time-suck that it sometimes seems to entail!

Francces Caballo is a social media strategist and manager for writers. Presently, she is the Social Media Manager for the San Francisco Writers Conference, the Women’s National Book Association-Francisco Chapter, and the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association.

Her books include Avoid Social Media Time Suck: A Blueprint for Writers to Create Online Buzz (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: Rebecca Foust on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, April 19th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers® Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be Left Coast Writer®  Rebecca Foust, author of Paradise Drive and All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song.

All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song won the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize and was released in 2010, the same year that God, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World, won the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card, recipients of the Robert Phillips Chapbook Poetry Prize in consecutive years, were released by Texas Review Press in 2008 and 2009.

Rebecca Foust was the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence and is the recipient of fellowships from the Frost Place and the (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Marianne Lonsdale – Mamas Write: 29 Tales of Truth, Wit, and Grit

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY:  Marianne Lonsdale – Mamas Write: 29 Tales of Truth, Wit, and Grit

Marianne Lonsdale
Marianne Lonsdale

Monday, April 13th, 2015 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

Writing in Community has become a buzz phrase, but what does it really mean? How does it help writers? And where do you go to get it? Writer Marianne Lonsdale will discuss her experiences and involvement in writing communities (Left Coast Writers, Write On Mamas, Lit Camp and Listen To Your Mother). Writing can be such a solitary endeavor, but finding community can energize and connect us. Come hear all about the benefits of collaboration!

Marianne Lonsdale writes personal essays and short stories, and is now focused on developing a novel. Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Literary Mama, (more…)

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