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Scott Sigler of San Francisco also missed out on getting his first novel published, with a deal collapsing in late 2001. But like Hutchins, he built a big Internet fan base on novel podcasting, which led to a 2007 deal with The Crown Publishing Company (a division of Random House), one believed to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sigler reached a milestone this month by cracking the New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list with Contagious, a first for an author emerging from the podcast genre. The print run for Contagious is 80,000 copies...
This news is likely to be the buzz at the National Biodiesel Conference, which convenes in San Francisco on Feb. 1. Given how record diesel-fuel costs literally drove up food prices last year--tractors and delivery trucks run on diesel--suppliers hope the new Administration will consider jatropha as stimulus-worthy as wind or solar power...
...early '80s, when HIV was still a mysterious killer in San Francisco, Martin Delaney, 63, an advocate for AIDS patients, made smuggling runs to Mexico to secure medicines said to strengthen the immune system. Delaney later founded the organization Project Inform to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS treatments...
Looking back, why do you think you were so self-destructive after your initial success? Rian Cooney, SAN FRANCISCO...
According to Victor, Tammy, a San Francisco attorney who was 26 while the show was being taped, is the one who pushed him to apply for the show again—this time with her as his partner...