Join us for our March event – Our 20th year is shaping up to be extraordinary!
Please join SF in SF for a fabulous evening with GAIL CARRIGER, AMY SUNDBERG, AND IZZY WASSERSTEIN
SUNDAY – MARCH 24th
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by question and answers with the authors; booksigning follows.
Event is moderated by author Cliff Winnig
The American Bookbinders Museum – 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco CA
Doors open at 6PM – event gets underway 6:30PM
$10 at the door – $8 seniors and students. No one turned away for lack of funds. CASH PREFERRED.
All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum
Books will be for sale, and feel free to bring your own from home for signatures.
Our wonderful podcast hosts from Soma FM will be recording the evening’s talk for later broadcast – they are listener-supported, commercial-free radio broadcasting to the world at https://somafm.com/
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Gail Carriger writes books that are hugs, mostly comedies of manners mixed with steampunk, urban fantasy, and sci-fi (plus cozy queer joy as G. L. Carriger). These include the Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, Tinkered Stars, the San Andreas Shifter series for adults, and the Finishing School and Tinkered Starsong series for young adults. In addition, she’s published the nonfiction book, The Heroine’s Journey. She is published in many languages, has over a million books in print, over a dozen New York Times and USA Today bestsellers, and starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, and Romantic Times.
Her first book, Soulless, made Audible’s Best list, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book, an IndieBound Notable, and a Locus Recommended Read. She has received the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Prix Julia Verlanger, the Elbakin Award, the Steampunk Chronicle‘s Reader’s Choice Award, and a Starburner Award. She was once an archaeologist and is fond of shoes, cephalopods, and tea. Learn more about this fascinating and versatile author, plus get early access, specials, and exclusives via her website at http://www.gailcarriger.com
Amy Sundberg is the author of the recently released YA science fiction novel My Stars Shine Darkly as well as the novel To Travel the Stars, a YA retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in space. Her novels feature intrepid heroines, refined prose, and questions of agency, power, and possibility. She also reports on local news with an emphasis on public safety and the criminal legal system in Seattle and Washington State. You can read her work at the Urbanist and in her newsletter Notes From the Emerald City. Amy spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area, but she is now living in Seattle with her little dog Nala. Learn more, plus subscribe to her newsletter, at visit https://amysundberg.com/
Izzy Wasserstein is a queer and trans woman who was born and raised in Kansas and currently lives in California. She teaches writing and literature, writes poetry and fiction, and shares a house with a variety of animal companions and the writer Nora E. Derrington. A Lambda Literary Award finalist, she’s the author of two poetry collections, When Creation Falls (Meadowlark Press (2018) and This Ecstasy They Call Damnation, the short story collection All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From, and her brand-new novella, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart (Tachyon, 2024). Learn more at https://izzywasserstein.com/
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The American Bookbinders Museum‘s entrance is located at 355 Clementina Alley, between 4th and 5th Street, between Howard and Folsom. The nearest BART station is Powell and Market. Street parking is free, and there are several garages in the area as well – further directions and transit options are available here on the ABM website. For more information, pleases contact the ABM at (415) 824-9754
For information regarding SF in SF events, or booking an author, please contact Rina Weisman at sfinsfevents@gmail.com
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Author Carter Scholz will be speaking at this event, as we continue to mourn the loss of author Terry Bisson. Scholz has published several works of short fiction (collected in The Amount to Carry, 2003) and two novels (Palimpsests 1984, with Glenn Harcourt; Radiance: A Novel 2002). He has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette for his story “The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs”. He also co-wrote The Twilight Zone episode “A Small Talent for War” and contributed stories to Kafka Americana. He has published several works of short fiction (collected in The Amount to Carry, 2003) and two novels (Palimpsests 1984, with Glenn Harcourt; Radiance: A Novel 2002). He has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette for his story “The Ninth Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven and Other Lost Songs”. He also co-wrote The Twilight Zone episode “A Small Talent for War” and contributed stories to Kafka Americana.
A memorial is planned –The Outspoken and the Incendiary: The Life and Work of Terry Bisson — at The Lost Church, San Francisco, for Saturday, March 30th. More information is available here
SF IN SF, our team, and just about everyone we know is terribly saddened at the news that author Terry Bisson passed away in January, of complications from cancer. There would be no SF in SF without him, and our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. Locus Magazine has posted a tribute on their site.
Raise a glass, folks.