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October 2010

  • Saturday, October 2, San Francisco, Ransom reads from The God Patent at Litquake’s “Off The Richter Scale.”
  • Sunday, October 3, 7-9:30pm, The Makeout Room, San Francisco, Ransom produces and MCs Litquake’s “Barely Published Authors” with Elissa Bassist, Jeremy Hatch, Mimi Lok, Andre Perry, Paul Spinrad, Ian Tuttle, Alia Volz, and Olga Zilborbourg.
  • Tuesday, October 5, The Mechanics Institute Library, San Francisco, Ransom produces Litquake’s “Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind” with neurologist Robert Burton, bookseller and voracious reader Elaine Petrocelli, novelist Michelle Richmond, English Professor Blakey Vermeule, and memoirist Mark Vonnegut.

September 2010

  • Wednesday, September 1, 6:30pm, Cafe Royale, San Franicsco, Ransom reads from The God Patent at the San Francisco Writing Community reading series.
  • Thursday, September 9, 10:30am, City Council Chambers, Sunnyvale, Ransom Presents “The Big Picture and Big Decisions” to ProMatch Silicon Valley.
  • Saturday, September 18, 3-5p, Pleasanton CA, TriValley branch of the California Writers Club, Ransom presents: The God Patent and the Future of Publishing: The first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of online publishing.
  • Saturday, September 25, Sonoma County Book Festival
    • noon-1p, Ransom MCs lunchtime reading of the Redwood Writers
    • 2-3pm, Ransom Reads from The God Patent.
  • Sunday, September 26, 4:30pm, Ransom is interviewed on The Infinite Consciousness with Eva Herr.
  • Wednesday, September 29, Petaluma Library, The God Patent + Mentor Me Petaluma Benefit, Ransom and Val Richmond discuss the mentoring relationship with The God Patent characters Ryan and Katarina as examples.

August 2010

July 2010

June 2010

May 2010

April 2010

  • Saturday, April 3, 1:00-4:00pm, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA, Ransom teaches: “How to Give a Great Reading.” Sign up here
  • Wednesday, April 7, 7-9p, The inaugural Aqus Speakeasy Literary Saloon, cohosted and featuring Susan Bono (www.tinylights.com) and Ransom. Ransom will read from The God Patent.
  • Friday, April 9, 7-9pm, The Elbo Room, San Francisco, Ransom competes in the Literary Death Match.
  • Saturday, April 17, sunset + 1 hour, Mount Tamalpais Interpretive Association Lecture Series, Ransom Presents “Emmy Noether and The Fabric of Reality.”
  • Monday, April 19, 7-9p, Atlas Cafe, San Francisco, Down to a Science Lecture Series, Ransom Presents “Emmy Noether and The Fabric of Reality.”
  • Saturday, April 24, Shasta College, Redding CA, Step Up With Social Media, Ransom Presents, The Future of Publishing and the state of Literature/Science Writing.

March 2010

  • Tuesday, March 9, evening, Reader’s Books, Sonoma CA, The God Patent reading and book signing
  • Wednesday, March 10, 6-8pm, The Mechanics Institute Library, Post St San Francisco, Ransom Moderates a panel featuring Henry Petroski The Essential Engineer: Why Science alone will not solve our Global Problems
  • Thursday, March 11, 7-9pm, Studio 333, Caledonia St., Sausalito CA, Ransom reads from The God Patent at Why There are Words Literary Reading Series.
  • Ransom presents the day-long workshop: “Tools of the Writer and How to Use Them.” Sign up here
    • Sunday, March 14, 10:00a-5:00pm, at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA.
    • Saturday, March 20, 10:00a-5:00pm, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA.
  • Monday, March 15, 9:00-noon, Marin Employment Connection, 120 N Redwood Dr, San Rafael CA, Ransom Presents “The Big Picture and Big Decisions.”

February 2010

  • Monday, February 1, 4:00-6:00pm, Santa Clara Convention Center, DesignCon 2010, Ransom Moderates “The Case of the Shrinking Eye,” a Signal Integrity Panel.
  • Wednesday, February 3, 2:00-2:45pm, Santa Clara Convention Center, DesignCon 2010, Ransom Presents: “A New Method for Receiver Tolerance Testing Using Crest Factor Emulation.”
  • Monday, February 8, Sonoma State Univeristy, Dept of Physics, 4pm, Ransom presents The Physicist’s Dilemma.
  • Sunday, February 14, 9-10am, San Francisco Writers Conference, Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, Ransom Presents “The Writer’s Toolbox.”
  • Tuesday, February 23, 6:00-9:00pm, Institute of Noetic Science, Petaluma CA, “The Low Faith Concept of the Soul from The God Patent.”
  • Sunday, February 28, 2:00-4:00pm, Book Passage, Corta Madera CA, “The Tools for Writing Clarity,” sponsored by the Marin Branch of the California Writing Club.April 2010

January 2010

December 2009

November 2009

  • Friday, November 20, 8pm-midnight, The Mystic Theatre, Petaluma CA, Ransom’s birthday celebration with metal rockers Y&T.

October 2009

  • Monday, October 5, 8:00-9:00am, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Graceworks, Ransom presents “The Big Picture and Big Decisions.”
  • Sunday, October 11, The Makeout Room, San Francisco, Ransom produces and MCs Litquake’s Barely Published Authors.
  • Tuesday, October 13, The Mechanics Institute Library, San Francisco, Ransom produces Litquake’s Where the Mind Meets the Brain with philosopher Alva Noe, psychologist Paul Ekman, neurologist Robert Burton, noetic scientist Marilyn Mandala Schlitz.
  • Saturday, October 17, Litquake’s notorious Litcrawl, phase 3: Sounds Like Crazy, Ransom reads from The God Patent.
  • Sunday, October 18, 1:00-5:00pm, California Writers Club Centennial Celebration, Book Passage, Corte Madera, Ransom reads from Jack London’s Call of the Wild.
  • Monday, October 26, 7:00-8:00pm, St. Isisdores Catholic Church, Danville CA, Ransom presents “The Big Picture and Big Decisions.”

September 2009

  • Monday, September 14, 4:00-5:00pm, Sonoma State University, Department of Physics, Ransom presents: The Physicist’s Dilemma.

August 2009

  • Thursday, August 20, 6:30-8:30pm, San Francisco, Cafe Royale,  Ransom MCs Inside Story Time: Spirit with Jonathon Keats (The Book of the Unknown), Stan Goldberg (Lessons for Living), Jenesha de Rivera, Andrew Dugas, and Paula Hendricks.

July 2009

  • Thursday, July 30, Dog Eared Books, 900 Valencia St, San Francisco, Ransom reads from The God Patent at the Babble On reading series with Jim Nelson and Annie Wyman.
  • Saturday, July 11, 10am-noon, Community Presbyterian Church, Danville, CA, Job Connections, Ransom presents “The Big Picture and Big Decisions.”

June 2009

  • Saturday, June 20, 10am-noon, Oakland CA, Jack London Square Barnes and Noble, Ransom presents “The Tools of Writing Clarity.”
  • Thursday, June 18, 6:30-8:30pm, Ransom reads from The God Patent at Inside Story Time: Revolution with Tamim Ansary, Joe Quirk, and Kemble Scott.
  • Wednesday, June 3, 12:30-1:30pm, Petaluma CA, Rotary Club, Ransom Debuts “The Fabric of Reality.”

May 2009

  • Thursday, May 21, 6:30-8:30pm, San Francisco, Cafe Royale, Ransom MCs Inside Story Time: Stumbling with Catherine Brady (The Mechanics of Falling), Christina Sunley (The Tricking of Freya), Jarret Rosenblatt, and others.
  • Thursday, May 14, 6:00-8:00pm, San Rafael CA, Public Library, 1100 E St., Ladies Night at the Library, Ransom reads The Properties of Paradise, his contribution to the SF Chronicle Bestselling anthology, Writin’ on Empty.

April 2009

  • Tuesday, April 14, 9:00-10:00am, Penn State University, Signal Integrity Symposium, Ransom Presents the Keynote Speech, “Jitter.”

February 2009

  • Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:30-8:30pm, San Francisco, Cafe Royale, Ransom MCs Inside Story Time: Migrations with Rodes Fishburne, Holly Shumas, Justin Chin, Michael McAllister, and Andrea Drugay.
  • Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10:00am-noon, Petaluma CA, Senior Center, Ransom Presents the seminar “Nonfiction: Writing Clearly,” sponsored by the Redwood Branch of the California Writers Club.
  • Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 10:00-10:45am, Santa Clara CA, Convention Center, DesignCon 2009, Ransom Presents  “Analysis of Random Noise.”
  • Monday, February 2, 2009, 4:00-6:00pm, Santa Clara CA, Convention Center, DesignCon 2009, Ransom Moderates “The Case of the Closing Eye,” a Signal Integrity Panel.

January 2009

  • Friday, January 23, 2009, 7:00-9:00pm, San Francisco, The Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St, Ransom MCs The San Francisco Writers Workshop Reading to Benefit the Meridian Gallery.
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