Category: News & Events

If you missed my new radio segment on KIST AM 1490’s “Applause Radio Show” with Jim Sirianni Sunday mornings, you can now download and listen to MP3s here! Recent topics include summer reading recommendations for kids, and SB Poet Laureate David Starkey reading his ode to the Brawlin’ Betties roller derby team…

Sign up for my feature-writing class at SBCC in the fall: 9:30 to 11 a.m. M/W Aug. 23-Dec. 8. Course #33778. All are welcome! See what students say about it…

Check out my new radio bit on KIST AM 1490’s “A Round of Applause” between 9 and 10 a.m. Sundays. I interview authors and discuss the writers’ life in my weekly segment: “Write There With Ya.”First guest: author and journalist Marcia Meier, whose fab new book “Navigating the Rough Waters of Today’s Publishing World” taught me lots of things I should have already known … Tune in and learn some stuff yourself!

Starshine gathered a gaggle of girlfriends to help read her book for the annual Recordathon at Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.She and 10 friends had a ball reading “Keep Your Skirt On” aloud. The audiobook will be available to blind or dyslexic readers at the organization’s Santa Barbara branch, as well as at its national headquarters in Washington, D.C., which loans books to people throughout the country.RFB&D provides recorded books to people of all ages who have trouble reading regular books. More than 235,000 people nationwide use the service Ñ and many credit it with helping them earn college degrees Ñ thanks to volunteers who record a chapter at a time from comfy sound booths.To find out more about RFB&D, attend a free informational meeting at the group’s offices, 5638 Hollister Ave., suite 210, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on June 8, July 8, Aug. 10, Sept. 9, Oct. 5 or Nov. 16. RSVP to 805-681-0531.

Click for my thoughts on toddler bellies, breast milk and Tiger Woods:
“Getting kicky with mom, author Starshine Roshell”