Monday

Monday, October 6, 3-5 pm
Getting Your Book Published:
An Industry Panel     SOLD OUT!!
San Francisco State University Downtown Campus, 835 Market St., Room 607. FREE

Hear insiders’ accounts of the publishing process. Learn everything from why your query letter may not be working to what, exactly, narrative nonfiction really is. Bring your questions. A co-production with the Foundation Center. Space is limited; register in advance at foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/sf_october.html.

Featuring: Moderator Janet Camarena, Counterpoint editor Roxanna Aliaga, agent Dena Fischer, Jossey-Bass editor Karen Murphy, MacAdam/Cage Editor-in-Chief Pat Walsh.

Monday, October 6, 5:15-7 pm
First-Time Authors Reveal All      SOLD OUT!!
San Francisco State University Downtown Campus, 835 Market St., Room 607. FREE

Get the nitty gritty on the process from manuscript to agent to editor to book from a panel of four authors whose first books are just out this year. Bring your questions. A co-production with The Foundation Center. Space is limited; register in advance at foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/sf_october.html.

Featuring: Moderator Elise Proulx, Andrew Foster Altschul, Alan Black, Philip Kearney, Shawna Yang Ryan

Monday, October 6, 6 pm
East of Istanbul: Voices from the Muslim World
Mechanic’s Institute Library, 57 Post Street
Free admission for Mechanic’s Institute members; $12 for non-members; tickets at the door only

Doors and café open at 5:30 pm
More information: milibrary.org/events.html

Featuring: Moderator Sandip Roy, Anita Amirrezvani, Tamim Ansary, Persis M. Karim, Niloufar Talebi

Monday, October 6, 6 pm
Scandal, Intrigue, and Drama in California History
Co-presented by the Commonwealth Club and co-sponsored by the California Historical Society and the SF Museum and Historical Society

The Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor
FREE for Commonwealth Club members; $12 for Litquake e-newsletter subscribers (bring a copy of our newsletter with you) and historical society members (order by phone); $18 for non-members; $7 for students with ID
Tickets available at commonwealthclub.org; (415) 597-6705

Pre-event wine and cheese reception starts at 5:30 p.m.

Truth really is more intriguing than fiction. California was built on big personalities, intrigue, scandal, and drama. Now, ripped from the headlines of our past, these shapers of our Golden State come to life in three groundbreaking new books. The authors reveal the new details they discovered to turn history into a great story.

Featuring: Moderator Julia Flynn Siler, Frances Dinkelspiel, Ethan Rarick, Rick Wartzman

Monday, October 6, 9 pm
Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match
Sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle

The Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street.$15 Admission
Advance Tickets online at The Rickshaw Stop

21 and over
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Featuring: Debi Durst, Daniel Handler, Andrew Leland, Tom Perrotta, Eric Puchner, Katherine Taylor, Steve Yarbrough