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Twin Cities Book
Festival

Save the date:
Saturday, October 10, 2009

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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   *  
  *   Exhibitor Promotions  *  


General Exhibitors

Afton Historical Society Press

Aliform Publishing

Amharic Kids

Animal Rights Coalition

Barefoot Books

Beaver's Pond Press

Big Brain Comics

Big Time Attic

Blue Earth Review

BookMobile

David Christenson Books

Cloquet River Press

Coffee House Press

Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

Dislocate Literary Magazine

Getten Creative

Graywolf Press

Great Northern Books

The Guthrie Theater

Hazelden Publishing

Holton House Audio

Holy Cow! Press

Intermedia Arts Literary Programs

Kirk House Publishers

La Mano 21

Llewellyn Worldwide

The Loft Literary Center

Loonfeather Press

Magers & Quinn Booksellers

Margaret Soderberg Bookseller

Magnetic Poetry

Midway Journal

Midwest Booksellers Association

Midwest Independent Publishers
Association

Milkweed Editions

Minneapolis Observer Quarterly

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Minnesota Atheists

Minnesota Book Awards/
Friends of the St. Paul Public Library

Minnesota Historical Society Press

Minnesota Literacy Council

Minnesota Literature

Minnetonka Review

National Writer's Union

New Rivers Press

Nodin Press

Normandale Community College AFA in Creative Writing

North Star Press

Pathfinder Books

Penury Press

Professional Editors Network

Rain Taxi Review of Books

Red Dragonfly Press

The Rake

Safe Journey

Saint Paul Almanac

Scarletta Press

Sleeping Bear Press

Spout Press

Super Session Press

Thumb People, Inc.

Twin Cities Sisters in Crime

University of Minnesota Press

Usborne Books

Utne Reader

Varangian Trade and Plunder

Vita.mn

Vote Yes MN

Water~Stone Review

Wet Paint

The Writer's Midwife

Xexoxial Editions

2D Cloud

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 Akinyi

John Anderson

Kirk Anderson

Dolores Attias

Suzie Bazil

Jeffrey B. Burton

Joshua Busch

Philip Donlay

Antwan Floyd

Nick Garafola

Tim Hall

Jenifer LeClair

Jan Carmen Liles

Roger Luebeck

Kathleen Melin

Chad Muller

Nelson Pahl

Thor Polson

Julie Rappaport

G. R. Revelle

Kalpanik S.

Paul Salsini

Michael Scott

Kathryn Sullivan

Chuck Tindell

Christopher Valen

David A. Warner

Jeffrey 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.


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To go to the Author Signings page, click here.

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