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Join me at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference

July 23, 2018Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Conference, Photography, Travel, Writers

The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference is coming up in August, here, in the Bay Area. I’ll be on Faculty again. This is the most amazing literary conference ever! If you’ve gone, you already know that, and I hope to see you there once more. If you haven’t … for goodness sakes, sign…

Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference 2016

July 15, 2016Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Travel, Workshop, Writers

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

May 6, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBest Writing Workshops, Book Passage Workshops, Dominican College Credit, erotica, Hot Flashes Sexy Stories & Poems, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Workshop, Writers

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…

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…

The Plot Thickens: Saving your Flatlining Fiction and Non-Fiction

January 13, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, workshop on plot, Writers, writing craft workshop

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…

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…

Dia (y Noche) de Los Muertos in San Francisco

October 24, 2012Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsDay of the Dead, Dead Love, Dia de los Muertos, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Travel, Writers

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

February 21, 2012Linda Watanabe McFerrin2 commentsContributing Editor, Food, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, New Orleans, Travel, Workshop, Writers

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…

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