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Jason Rezaian in Interview with W. Kamau Bell: Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison

January 24, 2019Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Dominican University, Jason Rezaian, Left Coast Writers, Prisoner

Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me So Monday, January, 28th, 2019 || 7pm Angelico Hall|| Dominican University of California || 20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael California || www.bookpassage.com Please join me, the folks at Book Passage, and a host of…

Going for the Gold: London Book Festival and Paris Book Festival Awards

May 12, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, London Book Festival, Paris antholgy, Paris Book Festival, Travel, Wanderland Writers, Workshop

Two great pieces of news arrived in my e-mail message box this morning. The first piece of super news: They are finally sending the gold stickers for the front cover of Wandering in Paris: Luminaries and Love in the City of Light, the prize-winning anthology of stories produced at our last international literary workshop. You might…

Building Character: Creating Characters that Captivate Readers

February 19, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBuilding Character, Character Driven, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Workshop, Workshop on Character, Writers

Linda Watanabe McFerrin – The Building Character This is the second in a series of monthly workshops on craft that I’m leading at Book Passage in Corte Madera. The workshops cover plot, character building, scene making, dialogue, and more. Dominican College credit is available for workshop participants.   02/22/2014 10:00 am End: 02/22/2014 4:00 pm Sat….

Only One Spot Left on the Next Wanderland Writers™ Adventure …

January 30, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBritain, Cornwall, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Travel, Wandering in Cornwall, Wanderland Writers, Workshop, Writers

What do Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, John Le Carré, Thomas Hardy, Tristan and Yseult, and Britain’s King Arthur have in common? The lighthouse and castle-studded Cornwall, where their journeys—along those of with many another literary and legendary character—led. We have only one spot left in our next Wanderland Writers™ workshop, the latest in a series…

Telling a Sexy Story …

January 18, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo Commentserotic literature, erotica, Hot Flashes sexy little stories and poems, Left Coast Writers, lilycat on stuff, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Melinda Adams, sexy stories, Writers

Tell me a story … and make it a sexy one. Well, I plan to do just that this Sunday. I’ll be telling you a sexy  story or two, as will a couple of other writers I know and love. On Sunday, January 19, I’ll be on San Francisco’s alternative radio station FCCFREERADIO, along with Laurie…

My Beloved Book Addiction

January 14, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrin8 commentsbook addiction, Book Passage, bookstores, Dead Love, Grace Grafton, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Wanderland Writers

Last night at Book Passage in the Ferry Plaza for a Left Coast Writers poetry event, I realized that I never enter a bookstore without wanting to read every single book therein, which I know is impossible. I have this strange feeling that tucked between the covers is a message that I can’t afford to…

Sugar Shock and the Sweet Life

March 31, 2013Linda Watanabe McFerrin1 commentBeyond Sugar Shock, Connie Bennett, Contributing Editor, Gluten Allergy, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Mia Magazine, Seet Life, Sugar Blues, Writers

The Sweet Life ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Do I need to read Connie Bennett’s new book, Beyond Sugar Shock? You bet, I do … I once ate an entire box of brown sugar … with a teaspoon … in under thirty minutes. No, it wasn’t a contest. I had a hankering for something sweet, and back…

Blogs vs Journals: Caught in “The Gutenberg Galaxy”

December 22, 2012Linda Watanabe McFerrin5 commentsblog, Graham Greene, journal, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Literature, Marshall McLuhan, Palm Desert, Palm Springs, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Travel, Writing

Palm Desert, California: December 22, 2012 ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Spectacular and panoramic morning at 6:30 a.m. on the balcony of my villa at Palm Desert’s Desert Springs Marriott and here I was getting set to rhapsodize about the snow-dusted San Jacinto Mountains in the distance, the towering palms, the Mary-and-Joseph-gee-whiz-I-can’t-believe-it’s-almost-Christmas baby-blue sky with its little…

Ten Years after 9/11

September 14, 2011Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo Comments9/11, Dick Jordan, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Piazza San Marco, San Francisco, Tales Told from the Road, Travel, Twin Towers, Writers

Safe Passage ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, my writing group was scheduled to give a reading from an anthology of travel tales at Get Lost Books* in San Francisco.  Here is the message that I sent to the group about that night’s scheduled meeting: In the wake of this a.m.’s terrible news,…

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