Here’s some great news! Left Coast Writers will receive 10% off on the Intensive Writing Weekend for Y/A and Middle Grade Readers (7/16-7/17/16), the Mystery Writers Conference (7/28-7/31/16) and the Travel Writers Conference (8/11-8/14/16). I’ve been faculty at all of these conferences at one time or another, and I’m happy to report that they are…
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…
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…
Linda Watanabe McFerrin – The Plot Thickens This is the first in a series of monthly workshops on craft that I’ll be leading at Book Passage in Corte Madera. The workshops will cover plot, character building, scene making, dialogue, and more. Dominican College credit is available for workshop participants. 01/25/2014 10:00 am End: 01/25/2014 4:00 pm…
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…
Noche de Los Muertos ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Remembering a dark night in San Francisco … We are pressed, our backs to the wall, in Balmy Alley, a bottleneck of a back street in San Francisco’s Mission District, as the dead drift by. Skeletons on stilts, in bridal gowns, playing drums in steel bands—Los Muertos, The…
Embracing Fat Tuesday ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin NEW ORLEANS — PINOCCHIO zooms by on roller skates, thin, hairy legs protruding from green lederhosen. Three Elvises swivel 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…
Recipe for a Balinese Feast ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin We gathered the writers in advance of our departure to Indonesia at the James Presho House for a Balinese dinner; the menu: spring roll appetizers; gado-gado; nasi goreng; a meaty, kebab-like version of chicken satay; and ice cream with crystallized ginger. Nice try. Here, in Ubud with…
