TWIN CITIES BOOK FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 13, 2012
10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, Progress Center building
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Book Fair Exhibitors
Visit the following publishers, authors, book dealers, organizations and more to see what's happening in the local book world! Each year at the Festival, exhibitors offer special prices and other perks, and many offer author signings at their tables—a great way to get a personally inscribed book at a great price!
GENERAL EXHIBITORS
EXHIBITING AUTHORS
These authors all have recently published books, including riveting memoirs, intriguing mysteries, poetry, children's books, and more.
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Susanne Aspley, I Know How to Hola Martin Bracewell, Peace, Man Norm Cole, Done with the Talking Douglas P. Cornelius, Good News—I Failed: A Story of Inventing in Minnesota Nicholas Dettmann, A Life Worth Dreaming About Diane Dettmann, Twenty-Eight Snow Angels Antonia Felix, Fatal Remedy David P. Grzan, Don Quixote's Impossible Dream Anastacia Hawkins, Larkspur Susan Hayes, On Friendship Sonja Hegman, Trials of an Entrepreneurial Virgin John Hickman, The Keeper of Dawn Kathryn Holmes, I Stand With Courage Tracy Lenore Jackson, Many a Time 
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Janelle Jacobsen, The Apocrypha of Eden Theresa Jarvela, Home Sweet Murder Karen Olson Johnson, From Where I See It Evelyn Klein, Seasons of Desire Norma Klingler, Jake McBunny Catherine Weyerhaeuser Morley, Where Do Mountains Come From, Momma? Jerry Neren, Once Upon a Time in Vietnam Steven Stwalley, Soapy the Chicken Moria Torrez, Max and the Sun Ann Wachtler, Super Power of the Day: The Hero Chronicle Jason Walz, Homesick Sue Wolfe, Lily Bouquet and a Special May Day Mary Yungenberg, Consummate Betrayal Daniel Zazzera, Dwelling in the Past |
EXHIBITOR SPECIALS AND PROMOTIONS
HOST EXHIBITOR SPECIALS
Rain Taxi Review of Books
Visit the Rain Taxi Review of Books table where you’ll find free copies, great giveaways, and deep discounts on subscriptions and merchandise—plus enter the raffle for great prizes!
Author signing: 10:00a – 11:00a: Stephen Burt signing Why I Am Not A Toddler and Other Poems by Cooper Bennett Burt (age one).
Magers and Quinn Booksellers
Featured authors and panelists will be available to sign their books after their events.
CLICK HERE to see the schedule.
Red Balloon Bookshop
Children's Pavilion authors will be available to sign their books after their readings.
CLICK HERE to see the schedule.
Common Good Books
CLICK HERE for a list of featured authors for the Local Lit Lounge!
Festival special:
Sign up for the Common Good Books email newsletter, and you'll be entered to win free books, audiobooks, and advance copies. Drawings will be held every hour, so visit our booth often to see if you've won!
Get a copy of 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor for 50% off when you buy another book from Common Good Books at the Twin Cities Book Festival.
GENERAL EXHIBITOR SPECIALS
Bellevue Literary Press
Festival special: Sale: all titles $10 (30-50% savings)
Flux
Author signing
1:00p - 2:00p: Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Beautiful Music for Ugly Children.
Festival specials
Free ARC giveaway (while supplies last)
Drawing for a Prize Pack of Books
Golden Valley Publishing
Author signing (all day): Joe & John Gindele, Yorkville Twins: Hilarious Adventures Growing Up in New York City, 1944-1962. Festival special:Get 10% off a single copy, 30% off two!
Holy Cow! Press
Author signings
11:00a - 1:00p: Roseann Lloyd, The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars.
2:00p - 3:00p: Kathryn Kysar, Pretend the World.
Islamic Media
Festival special: Book giveaways all day.
Inkslinger Books
Author signings (all day):
Kaekilia LeoLynn, Dragon Diaries: Ascension, The Demon Within.
Nick Smith, The Legend of the Ten Elemental Masters.
Keen Communications
Author signing (all day): Dain Charbonneau, Twin Cities Haunted Handbook.
Leapfrog Press
Author signing
1:00p - 2:00p: Allen Learst, Dancing at the Gold Monkey.
Llewellyn Worldwide
Author signing
11:00a - 12:00p: Adrian Lee, Mysterious Minnesota.
Festival specials
Sale: All books $10 (except The Steampunk Tarot, $20)
Free ARC giveaway (while supplies last)
Drawingfor a Prize Pack of Books
Midnight Ink
Author signings
10:00a - 11:00a: Jess Lourey, December Dread.
3:00p - 4:00p: Jessie Chandler, Hide & Snake Murder.
Festival specials
Sale: All books $5 except The City's Son, $10
Free ARC giveaway (while supplies last)
Drawing for a Prize Pack of Books
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Festival special: 30% off all titles!
Mizna
Festival special:
First 50 visitors to the booth get a free Mizna T-shirt
With a 2-year subscription, get 2 back issues of Mizna, Prose, Poetry, and Art for free
New Rivers Press
Author signings
11:00a - 12:00p: Tim Nolan, And Then.
2:00p -3:00p: Nick Healy, It Takes You Over.
Nodin Press
Author signings
11:00a - 12:00p: Athena Kildergaard, Cloves and Honey & Margaret Hasse, Milk and Tides.
12:00p - 1:00p: Contributors to Minnesota Crime Wave: 15 Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Malice & Nick Hayes, And One Fine Morning.
2:00p - 3:00p: Cary Waterman, The Book of Fire
Festival special: Plus stop by for a free blank journal!
Normandale Community College
Author signings:
by Kris Bigalk, Matt Mauch, John Reimringer, Anna Meek, & Alicia Conroy
Red Dragonfly Press
Author signings
10:30a - 11:30a: Connie Claire Szarke, Stone Wall
1:00p - 2:00p: Athena Kildegaard, Bodies of Light
2:00p - 3:00p: Lyle Daggett, The First Light Touches Me.
Revolver
Festival special: Pre-order our first issue for 50% off, plus enter our drawing to win a free subscription or great swag! Andy Sturdevant will provide free word caricatures for Festival passersby. PLUS: Worst Lines Roulette!
Scarletta Press
Author signing and puppetry
1:30p - 4:30p: Ann Sawyer-Aitch, Nalah and the Pink Tiger.
Seventh Avenue Productions
Author signing (all day): Lupi McGinty, Lolly Poppet's Lousy Day.
Sky Spinner Press
Festival specials:
Emily Meier's Suite Harmonic available for $15 (normally $24.95), all other titles $10 (normally $14.95)
Drawing for free copy of The Second Magician's Tale and Clare, Loving at 11a, 12p, 1p, 2p, and 3p;
Grand prize drawing of all six Sky Spinner Press titles at 4:00p, including Suite Harmonic: A Civil War Novel of Rediscovery.
2D Cloud
Author signing (all day): Will Dinski, Ablatio Penis;
Editor Signing 10:00a - 1:30p: Raighne Hogan, Little Heart: A Comic Anthology for Marriage Equality.
Festival specials:
Sale: 50% off of Little Heart: A Comic Anthology for Marriage Equality;
Sale: Yearbooks by Nicholas Breutzman for $10 (down from $13);
Free prints with purchase of Death of Elijah Lovejoy by Noah Van Sciver;
Free print with purchase of any Will Dinksi book
University of Minnesota Press
Festival special: 30% off all titles!
Walker Art Center
Festival special: Giveaways all day!
EXHIBITING AUTHOR SPECIALS
Tracy Jackson
Festival special: Drawing for signed copies of Ignorance Ain't Got No Shame, Many a Time.
Diane Dettmann
Festival special: Drawing for a mini rock fountain (winner announced at 3pm)
Nicholas Dettmann
Festival special: Drawing for two autographed copies of A Life Worth Dreaming About.
Sale: $3 off A Life Worth Dreaming About ($15 instead of $18)
Sonja Hegmen
Festival special: Drawing for copies of Trials of an Entrepreneurial Virgin, plus a Consulting Session.
Anastacia Hawkins
Festival special: Drawing for a copy of Larkspur.
Sue Wolfe
Festival special: Drawings for 2 free copies of Lily Bouquet and a Special May Day (held at 3pm)
Drawings for free T-shirts of Cover Design
Mary Yungenberg
Festival special: $2 discount on Consummate Betrayal.