Literary Salon: Michael Shapiro

Michael Shapiro
Michael Shapiro

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON:  Michael Shapiro, Travel Writer and Author of A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

Monday, August 4th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

There’s a Travel Writers and Photographers Conference coming up at Book Passage in August, so who better to be our salon speaker for the month than experienced freelance travel writer, Michael Shapiro. Michael is an award-winning writer, photographer and interviewer whose work appears regularly in national magazines and metropolitan newspapers. He’s the author of A Sense of Place and specializes in travel, but his interests range far and wide — since 2011 he’s been the gambling columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Michael will share notes and anecdotes on his travel writing career and adventures. Always witty and enthusiastic, he’ll bring the laughs as well as great advice for writers, so it’s sure to be an entertaining and enlightening evening. (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: Laurie McAndish King on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, July 20th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers®  Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be Laurie McAndish King.

Laurie McAndish King grew up in rural Iowa, studied science and philosophy at Cornell College, and has traveled to nearly forty countries, observing with an eye for biology and writing with a philosopher’s heart and mind. Her award-winning travel essays and photography have appeared in many publications, including Smithsonian Magazine; Travel Channel partner site iExplore.com; the San Francisco Chronicle, “The Best Women’s Travel Writing” Travelers’ Tales anthology; as well as other magazines and literary anthologies. She won the 2013 Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Cultural Tourism for her story about Croatia, “Silk from Ashes.”

What happens when a practical midwestern gal sets off to explore the world? Laurie McAndish King’s travels seem innocent in the planning stage, but surprising adventure unfolds as she finds herself tracking lions without a gun in Botswana … attempting to eat a horse in southern Italy … marrying a Maasai warrior in Kenya … and sampling the world’s most expensive coffee—brewed from the excrement of a small Balinese mammal.

Whether she is lost in Melbourne, kidnapped in the Tunisian desert, or eaten alive by the blood-sucking denizens of tropical North (more…)

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Workshop: Poetry: The Long & Short of It with Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Linda Watanabe McFerrin

POETRY: The Long & Short of It
with Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Saturday, July 19th, 2014, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, CA 94925
$105

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Ever wondered where the poetry is today? We’ve never needed it more. Join poet, travel writer and novelist, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, for a look at how to push the envelope and integrate poetry into our lives and work. You’ll spend a day filled with terrific poetic prompts. Come prepared to write and read your work..

Poet, travel writer, and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin (www.lwmcferrin.com) is a contributor to numerous newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She is the author of two poetry collections, past editor of a popular Northern California (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Left Coast Writers® Francophilia!

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY: Left Coast Writers® Francophilia! 

WanderinginParis_sMonday, July 14th, 2014 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

Join us for another taste of France: chocolate, cheese, cookies and wine as Left Coast Writers® members celebrate Paris and share new stories set in France and the City of Light.

Readers will include:

  • Unity Barry
  • M. Terry Bowman
  • Antoinette Constable
  • Kitty Hughes
  • Laurie McAndish King
  • Ethel Mussen
  • Catherine Pyke
  • Joanna Biggar
  • Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Left Coast Writers, if you have a story to share about France… (more…)

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Book Launch: The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide by Carl Russo

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide by Carl Russo

Carl RussoSaturday, July 12th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Join us, if you dare, in celebrating Carl Russo’s new book about the Sicilian Mafia with accompanying Sicilian wine. The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide is the first book of its kind in any language—the ultimate Cosa Nostra experience. Since 2006, author Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots on the Italian island of Sicily: where the murders happened, where the godfathers lived, where their victims are buried. From the sunbaked fishing villages of the Mediterranean to the darkest alleys of Palermo, western Sicily is the exotic backdrop for more than 100 meticulously researched tales of murder and mayhem, packed with 200 photographs of the actual locations.

Carl Russo is a San Francisco author who has written for the Oakland Tribune, indieWIRE and other (more…)

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Literary Salon: Linda Joy Myers

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON:  Linda Joy Myers, Author of Memoir–How to Write Your Healing Story, Founder and President of National Association of Memoir Writers

Linda Joy Myers
Linda Joy Myers

Monday, July 7th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., MFT, is the President and Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers. Linda is the author of The Power of Memoir–How to Write Your Healing Story, and a workbook Journey of Memoir–The Three Stages of Memoir Writing. Her passion for memoir writing began many years ago–she likes to talk about the stories her great-grandmother Blanche told her as they shared a featherbed in Iowa when she was 8 years old, the seeds of Linda as storyteller and memoir writer.  She’ll be sharing the story of her literary journey as well as tips on writing a fascinating memoir.

Linda Joy has been a therapist in Berkeley, California for over thirty years, following her belief that deep patterns can be healed and changed. She learned about changing these patterns through her own inner work and writing her memoir Don’t Call Me Mother: A Daughter’s Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, which received the Gold Medal (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: Kunal Mukherjee and Jonathan Arnowitz on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, June 15th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers®  Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guests on Sunday will be Kunal Mukherjee and Jonathan Arnowitz. Kunal and Jonathan will be discussing their novels about coming of age and coming out.  

Kunal Mukherjee is a San Francisco based poet and writer. Originally from West Bengal, he was raised in Hyderabad, India. He holds a Master’s degree in Physics, has done postgraduate work in Energy Studies and has worked as a restaurateur and a manager of information technology.  His passions include acting, painting, singing, music, travel, the environment and all animals. Kunal’s work has appeared in Tehelka Magazine, India Currents, Hot Flashes: Sexy Little Stories and Poems and Hot Flashes 2. My Magical Palace, published by Harper Collins (India) is his first novel and it has received wide coverage from Indian and international press.

Rahul, a young man in list late thirty’s, living in San Francisco, is haunted by dreams of the loss of the palace he grew up in. When his partner Andrew discovers that Rahul is still interviewing girls sent by his parents for an arranged marriage, he moves out, giving Rahul an ultimatum—stop living a lie and share the secret of his angst and unhappiness, or lose him and the relationship. Set in San Francisco today and in India in the early 1970s, My Magical Palace is a sensitive tale about a boy’s coming of age, and the (more…)

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Book Launch: Doorway to Ecstasy by Sherry Brier

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Doorway to Ecstasy: A Dancer’s Initiation by Sherry Brier

Sherry Brier
Sherry Brier

Saturday, June 28th, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Undergoing a crisis of the heart and spirit, artist Sherry Brier meets a mysterious teacher of mystical movement who initiates her into Egyptian Temple Dance. Join us in a celebration of  Sherry’s book about the spiritual journey that took her on the liberating path of transformation from self to Soul.

“This book is a treasure… such a valuable contribution to modern temple dance. I’d love to make it part of the official Fusion Temple Dance Festival curriculum…”
—Bast, Producer of Fusion Temple Dance Festival (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Reclaiming the Apple by Adrienne Amundsen

LEFT COAST WRITERS FERRY PLAZA BOOK PARTY:  Reclaiming the Apple by Adrienne Amundsen

Adrienne Amundsen
Adrienne Amundsen

Monday, June 9th, 2014 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com

We have an extra special book party for you this month at the Ferry Plaza! Please do not miss this extraordinary celebration.

Poetic, journalistic, a call to transformation, Adrienne Amundsen’s new collection of poetry, Reclaiming the Apple: Poems from Afghanistan, will take you on a journey in which tragedy becomes hope, a journey that enlightens and enriches. Sales profits from this event go to Afghans 4 Tomorrow (A4T).

“Adrienne’s images are fierce and soft, alluring and alarming. They ask nothing and everything from the reader. They are a poetic calling to action rooted in awakening and prayer. We are offered a journey for the price of this (more…)

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LIterary Salon: Margery Buchanan, Ingram Publisher Services

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON:  Margery Buchanan

Margery Buchanan
Margery Buchanan

Monday, June 2nd, 2014 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Writers, one of the keys to successful publication of literary works is distribution, and in the world of books that responsibility rests in the hands of important and little understood organizations. One of these is Ingram, the nationwide distributor.
We are pleased to invite you to an evening focused on distribution, then and now, with Margery Buchanan, who will share the ins and outs of book distributions as well as her work on Ingram’s new and groundbreaking independent distribution program, Ingram Spark.
It’s bound to be an enlightening evening and one you won’t want to miss!
Margery Buchanan has worked in the publishing industry for over 25 years in the Bay Area. She was with HarperCollins for 17 years. With (more…)
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