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2008 Twin Cities Book Festival
Author Signings

Below is a complete listing of author signings happening
throughout the day at the Twin Cities Book Festival!


  *   Chronological Listing   *   Alphabetical Listing


Author Signings in Chronological Order


10:00 am

Morning Mixer: Meet great authors with new books!
Gary Brown signing Adventures of the Parrot (North Star Press, table #53)
Michael Allen Mallory & Marilyn Victor signing Death Roll, A Snake Jones Mystery
(Sisters in Crime, table #55)
Tim Nolan signing The Sound of It (New Rivers Press, table #36)

10:30 am

Ana Clavel reading Shipwrecked Body (Hennepin Room)
Panel Discussion: Juggling Literature and Life (Spruce Room)
Heather Bouwman reading The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap (Storytelling Circle)
Evelyn Klein signing From Here Across the Bridge (Nodin Press, table #16)
Mary McMahon signing Once a Warrior (North Star Press, table #53)

11:00 am

Kathy-jo Wargin reading I Spy with My Little Eye Minnesota (Storytelling Circle)
Sharon Chmielarz signing Rhubarb King: Poems (New Rivers Press, table #36)
Jan Dunlap signing The Boreal Owl Murder (North Star Press, table #53)
Lois Greiman signing Unmanned and Under Your Spell (Sisters in Crime, table #55)
Tony Rauch signing Laredo (Whistling Shade, table #63)

11:20 am

Ana Clavel signing Shipwrecked Body (Aliform Publishing, table #24)
Margaret Hasse signing Milk and Tides (Nodin Press, table #16)
Elizabeth Oness signing Twelve Rivers of the Body (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)
Rolf Potts signing Marco Polo Didn’t Go There (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)
Olga Viso signing Unseen Mendieta (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)
Marjorie Welish signing Isle of the Signatories (Coffee House Press, table #18)
Frank B. Wilderson, III signing Incognegro (Consortium, table #13)

11:30 am

Bragi Ólafsson reading The Pets (Spruce Room)
Nathaniel Tarn reading Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (Hennepin Room)
Susan Marie Swanson reading House in the Night (Storytelling Circle)
Max Fallek signing Touching the Soul (Nodin Press, table #16)
Forrest Peterson signing Good Ice (North Star Press, table #53)

12:00 pm

Diane Hovey reading Princess Sophia’s Gifts (Storytelling Circle)
Heid E. Erdrich signing Fishing for Myth (New Rivers Press, table #36)
Erin Hart signing Haunted Ground and Lake of Sorrows, and Colleen Barnett signing Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction (Sisters in Crime, table #55)
Margaret Hasse signing Milk and Tides (Nodin Press, table #16)
Daniel Gabriel signing Tales from the Tinker’s Dam (Whistling Shade, table #63)

12:20 pm

Bragi Ólafsson signing The Pets (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)
Nathaniel Tarn signing Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

12:30 pm

Marion Robinson reading Polly Pig and Sweetie Find a Home (Storytelling Circle)
Jeff Foster signing Surrounded by Witnesses (North Star Press, table #53)

1:00 pm

Jaime Hernandez presenting Love and Rockets (Spruce Room)
Alan Cheuse reading To Catch the Lightning (Hennepin Room)
Candace Black signing The Volunteer (New Rivers Press, table #36)
Jarda Cervenka signing Fausto’s Afternoon (Whistling Shade, table #63)
Joanne A. Reisberg reading Zachary Zormer Shape Transformer (Storytelling Circle)
Wally Reutiman signing Murder at Christmas Lake (North Star Press, table #53)
Christopher Valen signing White Tombs, and Camille Hyytinen signing Pattern of Violence and Pattern of Vengence (Sisters in Crime, table #55)

1:50 pm

Alan Cheuse signing To Catch the Lightning (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)
Jaime Hernandez signing Love and Rockets (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

2:00 pm

Valerie Martin reading Trespass (Spruce Room)
Bill Morgan presenting The Letters of Allen Ginsberg (Hennepin Room)
Kirsten Dierking signing Northern Oracle.
Eric Dregni signing In Cod We Trust (University of Minnesota Press, table #39)
Marianne Herrmann signing Signaling for Rescue (New Rivers Press, table #36)
Arvonne Fraser signing She’s No Lady (Nodin Press, table#16)
Linda Morganstein signing Ordinary Furies, and Jenifer LeClair signing Rigged for Murder
(Sisters in Crime, table #55)
Mike Resman signing Iron Finns (North Star Press, table #53)
Deanna Reiter signing Dancing with Divinity (Whistling Shade, table #63)

2:50 pm

Valerie Martin signing Trespass (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)
Bill Morgan signing The Letters of Allen Ginsberg (Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

3:00 pm

Norita Dittberner-Jax signing The Watch (Whistling Shade, table #63)
Lori Lake signing Snow Moon Rising (Sisters in Crime, table #55)

3:30 pm

Robert Bly and Robert Hedin reading
The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (Spruce Room)
Jess Winfield reading My Name is Will (Hennepin Room)

4:00 pm

Barbara Fister signing In the Wind and On Edge (Sisters in Crime, table #55)

4:20 pm

Robert Bly and Robert Hedin signing
The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (Spruce Room)
Jess Winfield signing My Name is Will (Hennepin Room)



Author Signings in Alphabetical Order


Colleen Barnett

signing Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction (12:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Candace Black

signing The Volunteer (1:00pm, New Rivers Press, table #36)

Robert Bly and Robert Hedin

reading The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (3:30pm, Spruce Room)
signing The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (4:20pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Gary Brown

signing Adventures of the Parrot (10:00am, North Star Press, table #53)

Heather Bouwman

reading The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap (10:30am, Storytelling Circle)

Jarda Cervenka

signing Fausto’s Afternoon (1:00pm, Whistling Shade, table #63)

Alan Cheuse

reading To Catch the Lightning (1:00pm, Hennepin Room)
signing To Catch the Lightning (1:50pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Sharon Chmielarz

signing Rhubarb King: Poems (11:00am, New Rivers Press, table #36)

Ana Clavel

reading Shipwrecked Body (10:30am, Hennepin Room)
signing Shipwrecked Body (11:20am, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Kirsten Dierking

signing Northern Oracle (2:00pm, Spout Press, table #45)

Norita Dittberner-Jax

signing The Watch (3:00pm, Whistling Shade, table #63)

Eric Dregni

signing In Cod We Trust (2:00pm, University of Minnesota Press, table #39)

Jan Dunlap

signing The Boreal Owl Murder (11:00am, North Star Press, table #53)

Heid E. Erdrich

signing Fishing for Myth (12:00pm, New Rivers Press, table #36)

Max Fallek

signing Touching the Soul (11:30am, Nodin Press, table #16)

Barbara Fister

signing In the Wind and On Edge (4:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Jeff Foster

signing Surrounded by Witnesses (12:30pm, North Star Press, table #53)

Arvonne Fraser

signing She’s No Lady (2:00pm, Nodin Press, table#16)

Daniel Gabriel

signing Tales from the Tinker’s Dam (12:00pm, Whistling Shade, table #63)

Lois Greiman

signing Unmanned and Under Your Spell (11:00am, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Rob Hahn

signing The Funeral Home Murders (2:30pm, North Star Press, table #53)

Erin Hart

signing Haunted Ground and Lake of Sorrows (12:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Margaret Hasse

Panel discussion (10:30am, Spruce Room)
signing Milk and Tides (11:20am, Nodin Press, table #16)

Robert Hedin and Robert Bly

reading The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (3:30pm, Spruce Room)
signing The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge (4:20pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Marianne Herrmann

signing Signaling for Rescue (2:00pm, New Rivers Press, table #36)

Jaime Hernandez

presenting Love and Rockets (1:00pm, Spruce Room)
signing Love and Rockets (1:50pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Diane Hovey

reading Princess Sophia’s Gifts (12:00pm, Storytelling Circle)

Camille Hyytinen

signing Pattern of Violence and Pattern of Vengence (1:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Evelyn Klein

signing From Here Across the Bridge (10:30am, Nodin Press, table #16)

Lori Lake

signing Snow Moon Rising (3:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Jenifer LeClair

signing Rigged for Murder (2:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Michael Allen Mallory & Marilyn Victor

signing Death Roll, A Snake Jones Mystery (10:00am, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Valerie Martin

reading Trespass (2:00pm, Spruce Room)
signing Trespass (2:50pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Mary McMahon

signing Once a Warrior (10:30am, North Star Press, table #53)

Bill Morgan

presenting The Letters of Allen Ginsberg (2:00pm, Hennepin Room)
signing The Letters of Allen Ginsberg (2:50pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Linda Morganstein

signing Ordinary Furies (2:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Tim Nolan

signing The Sound of It (10:00am, New Rivers Press, table #36)

Bragi Ólafsson

reading The Pets (11:30am, Spruce Room)
signing The Pets (12:20pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Elizabeth Oness

Panel discussion (10:30am, Spruce Room)
signing Twelve Rivers of the Body (11:20am, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Forrest Peterson

signing Good Ice (11:30am, North Star Press, table #53)

Rolf Potts

Panel discussion (10:30am, Spruce Room)
signing Marco Polo Didn’t Go There (11:20am, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Tony Rauch

signing Laredo (11:00am, Whistling Shade, table #63)

Joanne A. Reisberg

reading Zachary Zormer Shape Transformer (1:00pm, Storytelling Circle)

Deanna Reiter

signing Dancing with Divinity (2:00pm, Whistling Shade, table #63)

Mike Resman

signing Iron Finns (2:00pm, North Star Press, table #53)

Wally Reutiman

signing Murder at Christmas Lake (1:00pm, North Star Press, table #53)

Marion Robinson

reading Polly Pig and Sweetie Find a Home (12:30pm, Storytelling Circle)

Susan Marie Swanson

reading House in the Night (11:30am, Storytelling Circle)

Nathaniel Tarn

reading Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (11:30am, Hennepin Room)
signing Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (12:20pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Christopher Valen

signing White Tombs (1:00pm, Sisters in Crime, table #55)

Olga Viso

Panel discussion (10:30am, Spruce Room)
signing Unseen Mendieta (11:20am, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)

Kathy-jo Wargin

reading I Spy with my Little Eye Minnesota (11:00am, Storytelling Circle)

Marjorie Welish

Panel discussion (10:30am, Spruce Room)
signing Isle of the Signatories (11:20am, Coffee House Press , table #18)

Frank B. Wilderson, III

Panel discussion (10:30am, Spruce Room)
signing Incognegro (11:20am, Consortium, table #13)

Jess Winfield

reading My Name is Will (3:30pm, Hennepin Room)
signing My Name is Will (4:20pm, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, table #7)




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