Ferry Plaza Book Party: Vignettes and Postcards with Erin Byrne

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK PARTY: Vignettes and Postcards: Writings From the Evening Writing Workshop at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, Fall, 2011 with Erin Byrne

Erin Byrne

Monday, August 13, 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com

You are invited to journey to an intimate neighborhood in 1950s Texas, the rue de Seine during the flood of 1910, and a 1960s political uprising in Brazil; to meet characters like Leila, an Algerian woman living in the outskirts of Paris, and Lilia, a young ballerina dancing inside a painting; to inhale the scent of warm cinnamon bread, to hear the pealing of bells from high up on an Italian hillside, and to walk upon the paving stones of Paris.

Vignettes & Postcards: Writings From the Evening Writing Workshop at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, Fall, 2011 is a collection of twenty-six stories by writers from all over the world, springing from the workshop “Leaping into the Void,” taught by award-winning writer Erin Byrne.

Edited by Byrne and Anna Pook, ongoing instructor of the workshop, the stories of Vignettes & Postcards represent a variety (more…)

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Literary Salon: Daniel Riviera

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Daniel Riviera, Entertainment and Intellectual Properties Attorney

Daniel Riviera

Monday, August 6, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com

There are many legal issues that may arise as a writer trying to publish your material, some you may have never even thought of. That is where Daniel Riviera comes in. Daniel will lightly go over topics which include source materials and potential liability; collaboration agreements; protecting and submitting your work; agency and management agreements; option/purchase agreements; crowd-funding; self-publication; electronic rights. He will focus in his talk on the latest trends in (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Carol Sheldon

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK PARTY: Mother Lode with author Carol Sheldon

 

Carol Sheldon

Monday, July 9th, 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com

Set in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan in a small copper mining town, Mother Lode is Carol Sheldon’s break-out mystery novel. Mother Lode is focused around the investigation by Sheriff Foster on the death of a local woman in the early 1900s whose own son is locked up as a suspect. His findings are surprising and strange, and will glue your eyes to the pages of this book!

“Carol Sheldon is a master storyteller. The historic details, the film noir atmosphere, and the gradual revelations of each of the characters and their motivations are superb.  From the first foreboding moment to the startling conclusion, this is a true page turner.  I could not put it down!”
—Vicki Weiland, Book Doctor and Board Member, Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (more…)

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Literary Salon: Mary Jo McConahay

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Mary Jo McConohay, Journalist and NCBA winning Author of Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey Among the Peoples of the Rainforest

Monday, July 2, 2012 || 7pm
Book Passage-Corte Madera || 51 Tamal Vista Dr.
Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com

Join Mary Jo McConahay in a discussion about “The Varnished & Unvarnished Truth”.  She will be speaking about her experiences writing award-winning creative non-fiction, as well as the genre as a whole.

Journalist Mary Jo McConahay covered Central America as a war correspondent and lived in Mexico and Central America for fifteen years.  Her award-winning work has appeared in more than thirty magazines and periodicals and is collected in a half-dozen books, including True to Life Adventure Stories by Women and Best Travel Writing 2011. She co-produced the PBS documentary Discovering Dominga, awarded the Cine (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Launch: Wandering in Bali

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK PARTY: Wandering in Bali with Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Monday, June 11th, 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com

The word Bali conjures images of lush tropical beaches and coastlines, mysterious temples, gracious people, their transporting music and rice fields of impossible green.

A journey to Bali is the trip of a lifetime and so it’s no surprise that this new collection of tales about the storied isle features a Foreword from Lonely Planet Founder, Tony Wheeler.

But this paradisiacal Indonesian island isn’t all goddesses and frangipani. In addition to the beauty, this group of writers also found the humor—and the terror—of the place. Computer crashes, marauding monkeys, international paranoia, flesh-eating fish and even a few zombies also found their way into the stories collected here. (more…)

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Book Launch: Wandering in Bali

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Wandering in Bali: A Tropical Paradise Discovered with Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar

Saturday, June 9th, 2012 || 7pm Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera ||www.bookpassage.com

Come to Bali in Corte Madera!

Wine, music, stories and other treats …

The word Bali conjures images of lush tropical beaches and coastlines, mysterious temples, gracious people, their transporting music and rice fields of impossible green.

But this paradisiacal Indonesian island isn’t all goddesses and frangipani. In addition to the beauty, this group of writers (www.wanderlandwriters.com) also found the humor—and the terror—of the place. Computer crashes, marauding monkeys, international paranoia, flesh-eating fish and even a few zombies also found their way into the stories collected here. (more…)

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Literary Salon: Michele Jin

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: Michele Jin, publisher of Passion Fruit magazine

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

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
—Marcel Proust

Who better to talk about a new vision than Michele Jin, creative force and founder of Passion Fruit magazine.

Michele began publishing Passion Fruit magazine in print form in 1999. Now an online publication, Passion Fruit magazine is a travel magazine that explores the issues and experiences of female travelers … and she’s looking for stories! Male travelers, this doesn’t exclude you, by any means, and your contributions are also welcome. (more…)

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Literary Salon: William C. Gordon

LEFT COAST WRITERS LITERARY SALON: William C. Gordon, Author of King of the Bottom

William C. Gordon

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

Maybe some of you remember celebrating wildly that night at Book Passage with Willie Gordon and Isabel Allende earlier this year when The Chinese Jars came out. It was definitely a night to remember. Well, one of our heroes (he’s been a huge supporter of our Left Coast Writers) is at it again. William C. Gordon has a new book out: King of the Bottom.

Oddly, it’s been a long haul getting books out in English, even for this internationally famous author, so we’re sure he has a revealing story to tell about writing and publishing books. He also has some fascinating fiction in his arsenal. (more…)

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Ferry Plaza Book Party: Wondrous Child with editor Lindy Hough

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK PARTY: Wondrous Child: The Joys and Challenges of Grandparenting, with editor Lindy Hough and contributors Joanna Biggar and Kitty Hughes

 

Lindy Hough

Monday, May 14th, 6pm
Book Passage || Ferry Plaza
San Francisco || www.bookpassage.com

Another book on parenting… wait, no, grandparenting?  This new collection of essays from and about grandparents gives an interesting new perspective to the art of being a grandparent.  Informative and interesting, Wondrous Child: The Joys and Challenges of Grandparenting provides stories with insightful advice on everything grandparent-related. (more…)
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Book Launch: Kirby Surprise

LEFT COAST WRITERS BOOK LAUNCH:  Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind with Kirby Surprise

 

Dr. Kirby Surprise

Saturday, May 12, 2012 || 7pm Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com

Wondering how to make things happen?

Kirby Surprise has written a fascinating new book, Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind, about the way individuals perceive reality and the science behind it.  He writes about meaningful synchronistic experiences and how an individual can actually influence their happening. The experience of meaningful coincidences is universal. They are reported by people of every culture, every belief system, and every time period. Synchronicity examines the evidence for the human influence on the meaningfulness of events, and the way the modern computational model of the mind predicts how we create meaning. (more…)

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