Join SF in SF Sunday, Sept 21st, with authors
BRENDA COOPER EVETTE DAVIS SHERI T. JOSEPH
Doors open at 4:00PM – event starts at 4:45PM —- ALL AGES WELCOME
$15 per person via Lost Church box office available here shortly! – also available at the door
Booksigning and schmoozing follows at close of event!!
THERE’S A BAR! Please help by patronizing it! Beer, wine, and soft drinks are available during the evening, located on the main floor of The Lost Church
Books will be for sale courtesy of Fly By Night Books, and all attendees are welcome to bring their own books 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! Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel
Proceeds benefit The Lost Church, a 501(C)(3) nonprofit arts organization that serves the community by creating, sustaining, and defending spaces for live performance. If you like what you see, hear, and experience, please consider becoming an Anchor Donor! These stable monthly funds help The Lost Church reliably plan for the coming year of entertainment – see details here!
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
BRENDA COOPER is a writer, a technology professional, and a futurist. Brenda writes science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction. Two of her novels, The Silver Ship and the Sea and Edge of Dark, have won the Endeavour Award for the best science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author. Wilders was also short-listed for the P.K. Dick award. Many of her short stories have been reprinted multiple times and some have appeared in various Year’s Best anthologies. Brenda’s most recent novels include a climate fiction duology set in the Pacific Northwest (Wilders and Keepers) and the tenth-anniversary re-drafted release of her Fremont’s Children series of books which started with The Silver Ship and the Sea, including the brand new fourth and final installment, The Making War. Her YA novel, Mayan December, is an exciting adventure through the past and the present, with an 11-yr old, a savvy scientist, a handsome dreadlocked time-traveler, an ancient shaman, a noble Mayan couple, and a computer nerd, in a search for the meaning of life and a way to save two worlds.
Brenda is the Director of IT for a premier Pacific Northwest builder. Her love of technology, science, and science fiction combines to drive her interest in the future, and she delivers keynote addresses about the future a few times a year. She is particularly interested in robotics, climate change, and the social change that must go hand in hand with fixing the human relationship to the natural world. Brenda lives in Washington State with her wife, Toni, and their multiple border collies, some of whom actually get to herd sheep. She loves to exercise, garden, read, and talk with friends. Learn more at https://brenda-cooper.com/
EVETTE DAVIS is the author of The Others and The Gift, the first two installments of The Council Trilogy, published by Spark Press. The third and final book in the trilogy, The Campaign, will be released in September 2025. She is also the author of 48 States, which Kirkus named one of the Best Indie Books of 2022. The book was also a quarter-finalist for the BookLife Prize 2023 and longlisted in the 2023 Indie Book Awards.
Davis is a member of the Board of Directors for Litquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival. She’s been twice honored by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library as a Library Laureate. Her work has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle and Writer’s Digest. When she’s not writing novels, Davis advises some of the country’s largest corporations, nonprofits, and institutions as a consultant and co-owner of BergDavis Public Affairs, an award-winning San Francisco-based consulting firm. Davis splits her time between San Francisco and Sun Valley, Idaho. Learn more at https://evettedavis.com/
SHERI T. JOSEPH, in her own words, spent her early childhood “in a small beach town in New York before our family moved to California, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. I grew up with some wild sailing, hiking, and backpacking around the world. At UC Berkeley, I studied economics and geography, then earned a JD from UC Law San Francisco. I also studied creative writing with Professors Lewis Buzbee and Mary Ann Koory. After years as a trial attorney, I shifted to nonprofit work, and serve as executive director of a nonprofit corporation supporting the creation of affordable housing. My husband Don and I have three adventurous children, and live in Tiburon, California. Edge of the Known World is my first novel.”
Edge of the Known World takes us along Alex Tashen’s journey, as she learns that she is a refusé, smuggled into the Allied Nations as an infant, and carries some viral DNA from a regional vaccine. If it’s detected by testing, Alex will be returned to a likely death. Her adoptive father developed a gene therapy to mask the marker, but it is not fully effective, increasing her chances of getting caught. When he goes missing, Alex leaves her safe existence for a precarious and often hilarious race across nations, unraveling secrets, navigating a love triangle, and testing the very nature of family and moral obligation. Learn more at https://www.authorsheritjoseph.com/
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Yes, we know….North Beach and parking are not always compatible! BUT we are outside the touristy area and here is a link to parking garages in the area, more info on parking in the area. MOST street parking is free on Sundays, but always check the signs and meter for days/hours. There are many easy ways to reach the venue by MUNI, or a combination of BART and MUNI! For MUNI options, please visit https://www.sfmta.com/muni-transit to plan your trip. For BART options, please visit https://www.bart.gov/planner. Make it a grand evening out, and visit here to find some excellent restaurants for dinner in the neighborhood!
For more information, The Lost Church can be reached at HQ@THELOSTCHURCH.ORG; for a recorded message with general information, call 415-320-1408
The Lost Church is located at 988 Columbus Avenue (at Chestnut), North Beach, San Francisco. Bimbo’s 365 Club is across the street.
The venue is ADA compliant: if you prefer to take the elevator down one floor to the performance space, please state that at the door before entering.
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SAVE THE DATES – COMING UP NEXT WITH SF IN SF!
Join SF in SF for these next authors on our calendar!
Sunday, September 21st – EVETTE DAVIS, SHERI JOSEPH, and BRENDA COOPER
Sunday, October 5th – 12 noon to 3PM – Join the party! Tachyon Publications is celebrating 30 years of publishing excellence, saving the world, one good book at a time! This event will take place at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, and will be followed by a very special SF in SF gig at 3PM with SAMANTHA MILLS and JOE R. LANSDALE!! **This event will be free and open to the public**
Sunday, October 12th – KATE MARUYAMA, JORDAN ROSENFELD and SUMIKO SAULSON
RESCHEDULED! Richard Wolinsky and Jacob Weisman will be appearing at the SFPL Main Branch on Sunday, 16th at 3PM, for the launch of SPACE SHIPS! RAYGUNS! MARTIAN OCTOPODES! This event is free and open to the public!
Sunday, November 23rd – SPECIAL EVENT! We’re putting together a program on Philip K. Dick, with some of the foremost experts on this very complicated author! Endlessly entertaining to talk about, we’ll delve into what makes him so fascinating, relevant, and completely fascinating today.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE EMAIL RINA AT sfinsfevents@gmail.com
We are beginning to book authors in for 2026! If you have a book or ebook coming out, please let us know!
