Left Coast Writers® Live: Tami Casias on LIlycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, November 16th 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®  Tami Casias.

Tami graduated San Jose State University with a degree in Journalism and worked for years covering local and business news before making the decision to devote her writing time to fiction. Her first novel, a young adult titled Crystal Bound, is about a sixteen-year-old girl who inherits powers that compel her to help others.

In Tami’s latest novel, My Affair with Mickey, Mini discovers her husband Michael is cheating minutes before winning the largest prize in the history of Disneyland. She has a three-day stay in the Castle to decide what to do with her life before Michael’s return.

This is a fun and endearing story about a woman who has never finished anything in her life. But the qualities she didn’t know she had including resourcefulness, kindness and a love of adventure are brought to light when combined with her childhood memories of the park.

The ongoing spot on Lilycat on Stuff is scheduled for the third Sunday of every month. Left Coast Writers® are invited to participate in the programming. Listeners are invited to call in and share their opinions.

FCCFREE RADIO is home to over 50 + original programs each week that produce more that 1,000,000 listeners per month (yes, you read that correctly 1,000,000 + listeners) of LIVE hosted content. that comes out of the plush studios in the SOMA District of San Francisco. FFR talk shows cover everything from sex, politics, sports, and back again. Google calls them an “Iconic Staple of San Francisco” and a “Frontrunner in Internet Broadcasting.”

Add your voice to the fray by calling in during show hours: 415 829 2980.

How to Listen in/Call in!
1 – log onto www.fccfreeradio.com (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: Shulamit Sofia on LIlycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, October 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 Shulamit Sofia.

Shulamit Sofia, a spiritual pilgrim from birth, has journeyed toward soul strength as her life’s purpose. She has been a serious spiritual seeker for nearly three decades, studying directly with the leading teachers of Jewish Mysticism. Founder of The Sacred Ladder and Soul Strength Seminars, Shulamit Sofia teaches practical applications of Jewish mystical principles, to solve challenging situations in everyday life. In addition, she provides individual spiritual counseling to people of all religions and/or denominations. Through her speaking engagements, she has reached numerous multi-cultural participants, both in faith based settings and secular workshops, where participants were composed of a broad spectrum of ethnicities and religions. Shulamit Sofia has developed a repertoire of soul (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: Carl Russo on LIlycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, September 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 Carl Russo.

Carl Russo is a San Francisco author who has written for the Oakland Tribune, indieWIRE and otherpublications. He was a radio producer and disc jockey at KUSF-FM for more than a decade. Russo fell in love with Sicily on his first trip to the island in 1999 and has returned many times since. In 2010, he began a blog, MafiaExposed.com, which became the basis for his book.

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 (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: Sherry Brier on LIlycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, August 24th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers®  Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be Sherry Brier.

Sherry Brier is director of Inner Rhythm Movement Arts Institute in Marin County, California. She spends her days dancing, teaching, choreographing dances for her students and two dance companies, writing, and playing hooky with her husband and cat.

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 (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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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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Left Coast Writers® Live: Kristin Elizabeth Clark on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, May 18th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers®  Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be Kristin Elizabeth Clark 

Kristen always knew she wanted to be a writer. Freakboy, her critically acclaimed young adult debut, received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. It is a top 10 book on the American Library Association’s Rainbow List dedicated to GLBT themed books for children and teens. Freakboy took top honors in its Northern California Book Awards category this year and also made the Young Adult Library Services  Association (YALSA) list of Top 10 Best Fiction for Young Adults in 2014.

In Freakboy‘s razor-sharp verse, Kristin Clark folds three narratives into one powerful story: Brendan trying to (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Live: William Goodson on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat
Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, March 16th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers®  Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Lilycat’s guest on Sunday will be William Goodson.

It’s in the news almost every day, called by many names—gender violence, date rape, acquaintance rape. That’s just the beginning of the story. The Blue-Eyed Girl is a novel about the aftermath, for victim and perpetrator. William Goodson’s book, written in two voices, tells what happens in the years that come after trauma, and how one woman recovers her life.

William Goodson has dedicated his career to improving the care of women with breast cancer. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he is a surgeon and the author of It’s your body…ask!, a guide to help women choose their own treatment for breast cancer. The Blue-Eyed Girl is his first novel.

The ongoing spot on Lilycat on Stuff is scheduled for the third Sunday of every month. Left Coast Writers® are invited to participate in the programming. Listeners are invited to call in and share their opinions.

FCCFREE RADIO is home to over 50 + original programs each week that produce more that 1,000,000 listeners per month (yes, you read that correctly 1,000,000 + listeners) of LIVE hosted content. that comes out of the plush studios in the SOMA District of San Francisco. FFR talk shows cover everything from sex, politics, sports, and back again. Google calls them an “Iconic Staple of San Francisco” and a “Frontrunner in Internet Broadcasting.”

Add your voice to the fray by calling in during show hours: 415 829 2980.

How to Listen in/Call in!
1 – log onto www.fccfreeradio.com

2 – find “schedule” tab and click it – go to Sundays – there will be the link for Lily Cat on Stuff – click it

3 – on Lily Cat page – there will be a “Tune In Now” section to select the streaming service of listeners choice – Under Studio A: – iTunes – Windows Media Player – Real Media Player – Quick Time Studio

4. Once selected the listening controls should appear & sound should be on – listen to the program – Lily Cat will give the phone # to call

Nice thing about these live casts – they’re incorporated into Pod Casts so you can go back and listen if the program played while you were out.

For more station info and how to listen in, go to: www.FCCFREERADIO.comTo schedule and interview with the editors or writers please contact Jack at leftcoastwriters@gmail.com
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Left Coast Writers® Live: Mark Shaw on Lilycat on Stuff

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

On Sunday, February 16th from 12-2pm, join Left Coast Writers®  Live on FCCFREE RADIO’s popular show, Lilycat on Stuff. Find out the truth about who killed John F. Kennedy and why when Left Coast Writer and attorney, Mark Shaw, talks about his controversial book: The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK. Vanity Fair called the book “Daring.” Kirkus Reviews said “TPP is a clearly written polemic … on the corruption of power built around an intriguing theory.”

Shaw, the author of 20+ books and counting, and a former legal analyst for ABC, ESPN, and CNN, focuses for the first time on why Robert Kennedy was not killed in 1963. Doing so shines the spotlight on the Jack Ruby Trial (he (more…)

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Left Coast Writers® Broadcasting Live

Melinda Adams, aka Lilycat

LEFT COAST WRITERS® ON THE AIR

These Bay Area writers are pushing the edge from the page to Internet radio in a new monthly series on FCCFREERADIO, San Francisco’s Alternative Radio

On Sunday, January 19, 2014 Left Coast Writers® take to the air with a monthly spot on FCCFREERADIO – San Francisco’s Alternative Radio Studio 1-A from 12-2PM with popular radio talk show host, Melinda Adams, aka Ms. Kitty, aka Lilycat.

The monthly two-hour call-in spot on FCCREERADIO’s long-running weekly talk show, Lilycat on Stuff, will feature stories and chat on topics that have these writers climbing out of their garrets and closets and congregating in a SOMA studio to hold forth on topics that move them to ire and ecstasy.

On Sunday, January 19, find out more about Undercover Love: Lust, Literature and Lingerie as Left Coast Writers and Hot Flashes: sexy little (more…)

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