Tasting Notes Dinner

​Thursday, October 2, 6:30-8:30 pm, Gold Room

Who says flights are just for drinks? At the Tasting Notes Dinner, 4-6 keynote authors are given 10 minutes each to discuss their forthcoming book in a format reminiscent of a tasting flight.

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 during the meal
  • You will have an assigned table for your author and 9 guests at the front of the room and can tell booksellers to meet you there
  • ​Please try to invite booksellers well before the event so they don't purchase their own ticket
  • All meal tickets will be waiting at the registration desk with your staff badges

Flow of the event
Starting at 6:30 pm, the event emcee will address the crowd. The first two courses will be served and eaten for a half hour. Starting at 7:00 pm, 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 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.

Before the Event
​​Authors pre-sign their books before the event; the time after dinner is for further personalization. The book room (official room name: Exhibit Hall; see on the right) will be staffed the following hours for pre-signing, so please direct your author accordingly.

Shipping Instructions
Ship 150 books/galleys to the address below and label the outside of every box as follows.

Heartland Fall Forum 2019
c/o Tristan Publishing
Tasting Notes Dinner / 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
Tasting Notes Fees
  • Placement Fee: $1,000, which includes 10 meal tickets (ie, one full table)
  • Drayage: $1.00 per book
  • Quantity: 150 comp books or galleys
Tasting Notes dinner from 2016
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