Morris Island, South Carolina, April 2015 Here we are again, the writers and illustrators who have come together for this year’s Southern Sampler Artists Colony, on Morris Island with Captain Anton DuMars and Sharon Cooper-Murray, aka The Gullah Lady. Anton has stayed with his boat and Sharon has taken us on a walk along the…
WRITING BESTSELLING MEMOIRS WITHOUT THROWING EVERYONE UNDER THE BUS July Member Teleseminar with Linda Watanabe McFerrin July 25, 2014 11 AM PDT 12 PM MDT 1 PM CDT 2 PM EDT Any professional editor will tell you that the key to writing a fantastic, bestselling memoir is drama and relevance, but sometimes it hard to…
May 17, 2014 I’m totally flipping my lid again. It’s another day at the races, another day of hats and horses, and once again California Chrome, the three-year-old American Thoroughbred foaled in Coalinga, California, is a winner. This time he (yes, I will use the gender specific personal pronoun) won the Preakness Stakes which, when…
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…
EROTICA: WRITING SEXY STUFF with Linda Watanabe McFerrin Saturday, May 31st, 2014, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Location: Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, CA 94925 $105 Register here If you have trouble steaming up the page, this is the workshop for you. Spend a day this month with poet, travel writer and novelist…
It’s Derby Day today and that means hats! ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Hats matter, always for some of us, and today and tomorrow—along with mint juleps, thoroughbred horses and other grand Southern traditions—at this year’s Kentucky Derby. Having just returned from South Carolina and the Southern Sampler Artists Colony where we were celebrating and memorializing Charleston…
1995-02-05 04:00:00 PDT NEW ORLEANS — PINOCCHIO zooms by on roller skates, thin, hairy legs protruding from green lederhosen. Three Elvises swival past, hips rotating like long-playing records. A besequined, masked stranger raises his wine glass and blows me a kiss. Scandalous. Ridiculous. Crazy. Taboo. It’s Fat Tuesday –Mardi Gras, the most delightfully wicked time of…
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….
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…
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…
