Children's Author Breakfast

​Friday, October 4, 8:00-9:30 am, Gold Room


Suggested Author Itinerary
  • Thursday Oct 3: 
    Arrive at the Cleveland Renaissance and stay the night. Head to the book room if you have any questions of our staff, but pre-signing is not required

  • Friday Oct 4: 
    Enjoy the Children's Author Breakfast
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Children's Author Breakfast Fees
  • Placement Fee: $1,000, which includes one table (10 meal tickets)
  • Drayage: $1.00 per book
  • ​Quantity: 175 comp books or galleys
At the Children's Author Breakfast, 3-4 keynote authors are given 10 minutes each to discuss their forthcoming book while enjoying breakfast with booksellers. 

Meal Tickets
This is a ticketed meal event. Socializing with booksellers is one of the highlights of the authors' experience. Your author placement fee includes a table of 10 reserved seats.
  • After giving a ticket to your author, you will have 9 seats left for staff and booksellers to join your author at your publisher-assigned table during the meal
  • ​Please try to invite booksellers well before the event so they don't purchase their own ticket; if you don't invite booksellers in advance, please ask the night of and usher them to your table
  • All meal tickets will be waiting at the registration desk with your staff badges
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Flow of the event
At 8:00 am, the event emcee will address the crowd. Breakfast will be served, and starting at around 8:15 am, a bookseller will introduce each author briefly, keep the program running on time, and provide a wrap-up signal for each author. Authors are allotted a strict maximum of 10 minutes to speak. After the authors are done, we’ll break into a signing for book personalization. The emcee will announce that the signing is beginning, which means authors should take their seats at the signing tables, where their books will be waiting.

We’ll have a raised podium and a microphone at the front of the room for speakers’ use. If your author has any special needs or additional AV equipment, please let Carrie know by September 13.

Shipping Instructions
Ship 175 books/galleys to the address below and label the outside of every box as follows.

Heartland Fall Forum 2019
c/o Tristan Publishing
Children's Author Breakfast / AUTHOR NAME
BOOK TITLE/PUBLISHER
2355 Louisiana Avenue North
Golden Valley, MN 55427

First date freight received: 8/26/2019
Freight deadline: 9/23/2019
Photos from a previous breakfast. View more event photos on Facebook.