Moveable Feast

Pre-Feast: Friday, October 4, 11:30 am-12:30 pm, Brasserie Restaurant

Main Event: Friday, October 4, 12:30-2:00 pm, Gold Room

The Moveable Feast is an extremely fun and productive annual event designed to introduce authors to a host of booksellers. Forty authors are booked for this event, which sells out every year. Authors are paired two-by-two and visit seven tables of booksellers for 10-minute increments to talk about their book. A total of 165 booksellers attend.

For your authors!

Download Feast instructions. Table assignments will be released soon.

View all 40 Feast authors

Moveable Feast Fees
  • Placement Fee: $500, which includes a complimentary meal for the author
  • Drayage: $1.00 per book
  • Quantity: 165 comp books or galleys (add another 20 books if you'd like your author to be able to share copies with the other Feast authors)
Suggested Author Itinerary
  • Thurs Oct 3: Arrive at the Renaissance and stay the night. Get your badge at the registration desk. Head to the book room to pre-sign your books
  • Fri Oct 4: If you didn't pre-sign books the day before, do on Friday morning, however it must be early. Arrive no later than as early as 7 am and no later than 9 am to pre-sign (if for some reason you can't pre-sign, that's OK, too) (FYI: The book room's official hours are listed here)
    11:30 am-12:30 pm - Enjoy the pre-Feast author lunch with all 40 authors
    12:30-2:00 pm - Rock the Moveable Feast  ​
Pre-Signing
We ask all Feast authors to sign copies of their books before the pre-Feast author lunch.
  • Ask your author to sign books on Thursday; see this page for book room hours
  • If Friday morning is the only time your author can sign, please ask them to come as the book room opens at 7 am; we need all books signed by 10 am to set up for the event
  • If you simply can't arrange for pre-signing, it's OK to skip this step

FOR AUTHORS
  • Prop. Bring a personal copy of your galley or book to use as a prop while chatting with booksellers. Our staff most likely won't be able to supply copies at the show
  • Connect. Bring business cards or promotional postcards with your book jacket, personal contact information, social media, etc.
  • Meet authors. Scroll around Twitter and follow your fellow authors before the show. If there are enough books leftover, we share them with you, and highly encourage reading and saying good things on social media
  • Know your market. These are indie booksellers and you will endear yourself to them by supporting the indie market. If you don't already, it's necessary to include indie buy buttons on your website, and put indies first whenever you can. Here's how
  • More to come. Detailed author instructions, ie, table assignments etc., is to come 

FOR PUBLISHERS
​Shipping Instructions
Ship 165 books/galleys to the address below and label the outside of every box as follows. If you'd like to include a few extra copies for your author to share with other authors, send 185 copies.

Heartland Fall Forum 2019
c/o Tristan Publishing
Opening Reception / 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
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