2008 Twin Cities Book Festival
Exhibit Information
Visit the following publishers, authors, book dealers, organizations and more to see what's happening in the local book world! Many exhibitors also host author signings and offer special deals on their wares during the Festival; scroll down for a list of just some of the specials planned.
Please note: registration is closed and all exhibition space is full.
General Exhibitors
Exhibiting Authors
These authors all have recently published books, including riveting memoirs, intriguing mysteries, young adult fantasies, and children's books. Check them out!
Carolyn AkinyiJohn AndersonKirk AndersonDolores AttiasSuzie BazilJeffrey B. BurtonJoshua BuschPhilip DonlayAntwan FloydNick GarafolaTim HallJenifer LeClairJan Carmen LilesRoger Luebeck |
Kathleen MelinChad MullerNelson PahlThor PolsonJulie RappaportG. R. RevelleKalpanik S.Paul SalsiniMichael ScottKathryn SullivanChuck TindellChristopher ValenDavid A. WarnerJeffrey Woolf |
Signings and Promotions
Below is a listing of signings and promotions at various exhibitor tables. For chronological and alphabetical listings, CLICK HERE!
Barefoot Books
Prize drawing for book giveaway!
Guthrie Theater
Prize wheel and Enter-to-Win box! Prizes include a complimentary voucher to an upcoming play (including current productions A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller and The Caretaker by Harold Pinter), show posters, show buttons, a Guthrie Learning-Center sampler class voucher, a complimentary backstage tour voucher, and a complimentary audio tour voucher.
Minneapolis Observer Quarterly
Giving away free back issues of MOQ and the 2009 MOQ Useful Calendar, which has all the special dates you need to know and a few you don't. Anyone who subscribes at the Festival will get the current issue for free.
New RIvers Press
10:00 am to 11:00 am: Tim Nolan signing The Sound of It.
11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Sharon Chmielarz signing Rhubarb King: Poems.
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm: Heid E. Erdrich signing Fishing for Myth.
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Candace Black signing The Volunteer.
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm: Marianne Herrmann signing Signaling for Rescue.
Nodin Press
10:30 am to 11:30 am: Evelyn Klein signing From Here Across the Bridge.
11:30 am to 12:00 pm: Max Fallek signing Touching the Soul.
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm: Margaret Hasse signing Milk and Tides.
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm: Arvonne Fraser signing She’s No Lady.
Normandale Community College AFA in Creative Writing
Drawing for a Writer’s Gift Basket! Includes signed copies of Alicia Conroy’s Lives of Mapmakers and Thomas Maltman’s The Night Birds.
North Star Press
10:00 am to 11:00 am: Gary Brown signing Adventures of the Parrot.
10:30 am to 11:30 am: Mary McMahon signing Once a Warrior.
11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Jan Dunlap signing The Boreal Owl Murder.
11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Forrest Peterson signing Good Ice.
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm: Jeff Foster signing Surrounded By Witnesses.
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Wally Reutiman signing Murder at Christmas Lake.
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm: Mike Resman signing Iron Finns.
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm: Rob Hahn signing The Funeral Home Murders.
Rain Taxi Review of Books
Visit the Rain Taxi Review of Books table located in the center of the exhibit hall, where you’ll find free copies, great giveaways, and deep discounts on all of our merchandise! Check out our Joe Sacco edition t-shirt and our Brainstorm Series chapbooks. Great deals on subscriptions, too!
PLUS: Enter the Festival raffle! Win fantastic prizes, including signed books, chapbooks, event tickets, gift certificates, movie passes, t-shirts, prize packages, and more! Raffle tickets are only $1 each. Proceeds will help us bring you next year’s Twin Cities Book Festival!
Twin Cities Sisters in Crime
10:00 am to 11:00 am: Michael Allen Mallory & Marilyn Victor signing Death Roll, A Snake Jones Mystery.
11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Lois Greiman signing Unmanned and Under Your Spell.
12:00pm to 1:00 pm: Erin Hart signing Haunted Ground and Lake of Sorrows, and Colleen Barnett signing Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction.
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Christopher Valen signing White Tombs, and Camille Hyytinen signing Pattern of Violence and Pattern of Vengence.
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm: Linda Morganstein signing Ordinary Furies, and Jenifer LeClair signing Rigged for Murder.
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm: Lori Lake signing Snow Moon Rising.
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm: Barbara Fister signing In the Wind and On Edge.
Sleeping Bear Press
All hardcover picture books are on sale! Plus meet author Kathy-jo Wargin, signing I Spy with My Little Eye Minnesota all afternoon.
Spout Press
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Kirsten Dierking signing Northern Oracle.
Super Session Press
New calendar launch!
Thumb People
Pickup a free "You Are Thumbuddy" CD containing sixteen original children’s songs!
University of Minnesota Press
All Day: 30% discount on most titles!
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm: Eric Dregni signing In Cod We Trust
Usborne Books
Prize drawing for book giveaway! ($25 value) Buy three books, get one free. Schedule a home show or book fair and get $25 in free merchandise. Ask about the Literacy for a Lifetime 50% matching grant program.
Whistling Shade
11:00 am to 12:00 pm: Tony Rauch signing Laredo.
12:00 pm to 1:00 am: Daniel Gabriel signing Tales from the Tinker's Dam.
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Jarda Cervenka signing Fausto's Afteroon.
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Deanna Reiter signing Dancing with Divinity
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm: Norita Dittberner-Jax signing The Watch.
