Book Launch: Seeing Red by Lone Morch

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred, by Lone Morch

Lone Morch

Saturday, February 9, 2013 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

“Readers, not just pilgrims, seek enlightenment. And memoirs often fail to provide those aha! moments. But Seeing Red overflows with insights into the feminine journey: how we wake up to our own power through risking heartbreak, and how it is only by becoming aware of our deepest selves that we can transcend. Seeing Red blends the spiritual and the physical in a heady mix that is both charming and bracing!”
—Jane Ganahl, co-founder of the Litquake festival, author of “Naked on the Page.”

Though this new memoir, Seeing Red: A Woman’s Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred, by Lone Morch has been lauded for its feminine insights, it applies to us all. After all, self-awakening and self-discovery are not bound to a single sex or group, but to every human being; and this memoir promises to be one that tells of a journey to do both … and more, while inspiring the reader to do the same … all against a backdrop of  Himalayan Mount Kailas. So join Left Coast Writers, Book Passage, Lone Morch and the goddess Kali, for wine, snacks and the launch of this riveting memoir. (more…)

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Book Launch: Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell

BOOK LAUNCH:  Shadow on the Crown, by Patricia Bracewell

Patricia Bracewell

Thursday, February 7th, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

We hope all of you will come out for this very special event. Our beloved Roadwork editor, Patricia Bracewell, will be celebrating the launch of her much praised and eagerly awaited novel, Shadow on the Crown (Viking, 2012). Come hear about Emma, the fifteen-year-old newly crowned Queen of England.  She came from Normandy and  met her husband-to-be, the much older King Athelred, just minutes before their wedding.  But this clever 11th century girl takes it in stride and braves her challenging new role amongst rivals, enemies and the all-too-present threat of a Viking invasion. Come take this adventure with us and hear about the history-inspired tale of Emma of Normandy.We will be serving mead, of course, and other wonderful period treats. (more…)

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Literary Salon: Brooke Warner

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Brooke Warner, author of What’s Your Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You from Inspiration to Published Author, editor, and publisher

Brooke Warner

Monday, February 4th, 2013 || 7pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com

Do you dream about writing a book but second-guess yourself? Are you trying to finish a manuscript but can’t because you’re stuck with writers block? Have you finished a manuscript, shopped it around with no bites, and given up? Brooke Warner, author of What’s Your Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You from Inspiration to Published Author, editor, and publisher, will be coming to speak with all of you about just those issues. She will give advice to and answer questions from all those that aspire (more…)

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Left Coast Writers Love Stories

Left Coast Writers® Love Stories

Saturday,January 12, 2013 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Join Linda Watanabe McFerrin and the Left Coast Writers® for an evening of love stories to help set the mood for Valentine’s Day. You can count on the talented writers from LCW to provide an entertaining evening full of love, lust and other appropriate emotions.

There’ll be wine an chocolate, of course, AND all who attend are invited to bring a love or lust story of 1000 words or less. Their stories will be considered for publication on the hotflashessexystsories.com website and a $100 award. You must be present to enter. (more…)

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Ferry Building Book Party: heretofore by Todd Crawshaw

LEFT COAST WRITERS Book Party: heretofore, with Author Todd Crawshaw

Todd Crawshaw

Monday, January 14, 2013 || 6pm
Book Passage || San Francisco
1 Ferry Plaza ||http://www.bookpassage.com

“If heaven exists, a realm of eternal bliss, how would it avoid becoming monotonous without a bit of conflict?” This is the question posited by Todd Crawshaw‘s latest novel, heretofore.  This new work has been described as “a modern-day Alice in Wonderland melded with the satirical humor of Catch 22”.  Assuming this piques your interest (as it should), you can read sections of the book and see Todd’s wonderful illustrations of his characters at http://www.toddcrawshaw.com/heretofore.html, and come to his book launch at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza on the 14th and join us in a toast to this illuminating local (more…)

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Literary Salon: Connie Hale

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Connie Hale, Author of Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing

Connie Hale

Monday, January 7th, 2013 || 7pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com

We’re kicking off the new year with a great speaker.

Gambol, gallivant, or gallop over over to Book Passage in Corte Madera on Left Coast Writers® Literary Salon night to hear the Bay Area’s own  Constance Hale is going to impart her wisdom on the mechanics of writing.  We hope you will all be there!

Constance Hale is a San Francisco based journalist and author. Her three books on language and writing, (more…)

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Book Launch: Lucille Lang Day

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Married at Fourteen: A True Story, by Lucille Lang Day

Lucille Lang Day

Saturday, December 8th, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||
www.bookpassage.com

Poet and writer Lucille Lang Day‘s new memoir Married at Fourteen: A True Story tells her story, as the title says, of getting married at fourteen, of being a young mother, going back to school and growing up both physically and psychologically into the woman that she is today.

”Day gives eloquent voice to the teenager she once was–precocious, beautiful, hungry for love and adventure, disrespectful of conventions, adept at getting into serious trouble. Her memoir is sexy, funny and endearingly honest…It challenges the conventional wisdom that a teenage mom and dropout has no future and reminds us that rebellious kids who defy authority may become–as has Day–the innovators and creators that our culture needs.”

-Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Ph.D., M.F.T., author of The Motherline (more…)

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Literary Salon: Ausbert de Arce and Petra Mason

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Ausbert de Arce (publisher) and Petra Mason (author, photographer, designer)

Petra and Ausbert

Monday, December 3rd, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com

It’s the end of the year, and we have a special two-speaker salon this month! Our final literary salon speakers this year are Ausbert de Arce and Petra Mason. They will be discussing the benefits of self-publishing or creating a boutique press, taking from his extensive knowledge as a publisher and her knowledge as a published author.

Ausbert de Arce is the founder of Taschen America and Assouline Publications, and current head of the Rizzoli Studio program of the art publications division of Random House group. (more…)

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Ferry Building Book Party: Mary Lou Schram

LEFT COAST WRITERS Book Party: Mary Lou Peters Schram, Author of Molly’s Leap, Stranger in the Dark, KLIK, Taddy and Her Husbands, and Pursuing Happiness … One More Time

Monday, November 12th, 2012 || 6pm
Book Passage || Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Drive, Corte Madera ||http://www.bookpassage.com

Mary Lou Schram‘s newly released novel Molly’s Leap is a comedic slice-of-life story about a woman (Molly) and her ever-changing life. A new career in real estate, a new love, all the while  attached to things from her old life (including two children and an overseas husband). How will she balance it all? (more…)

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