Rain Taxi, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, and Red Balloon Bookshop booths are all located near the main entry doors of the Progress Center. Please also visit Rain Taxi’s spectacular Used Book & Record Sale in the Northwest corner of the building. For information about this year’s stupendous roster of book fair exhibitors, read on!

Sponsoring Exhibitors


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Exhibiting Organizations

Visit these exhibiting organizations at the book fair!


Exhibiting Book Dealers

Visit these exhibiting book dealers at the book fair!


Exhibitor Specials and Signings

Stop by these exhibitors for specials and author signings!

Beauty School Editions


SPECIALS: $3 off the cover price for Haley Lasché's One and Paula Cisewski's Ceremonies for No Repair, or both titles for $30

FTL Publications


SPECIALS: Select books for sale for $1 each

Holy Cow! Press


SIGNINGS:  11 – 12: Greg Watson, Stars Unseen
SPECIALS: All books are $15 each, 2 for $25

Howling Bird Press/Augsburg MFA


SPECIALS: Enter raffle drawings for signed copies of our books

The Inky Bookwyrm


SIGNINGS: All day: Gina Kammer, International School of Dragon Training series
SPECIALS:  Sign up for a free "Turn Your Story into a Marketable Book" Roadmap Call

Nodin Press


SIGNINGS:
11 – 11:30: Margaret Hasse, Belongings
11:30 – 12: Shelley Getten, Of Cows & Crows
12 – 1: Tim Nolan, Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
  1 – 2: Freya Manfred, When I Was Young and Old
  2 – 2:30: Bart Sutter, Cotton Grass
  2:30 – 3: Philip Bryant, Messages from the Nile

PageTurnerPress


SIGNINGS:
10 – 1: Israh Azizi, Heroes of the Empire Book 1: The Cavalier
  2 – 4:  Israh Azizi, Heroes of the Empire Book 2: The General
SPECIALS: 
• Fun scratch-offs to win Heroes of the Empire merch (while supplies last)
• Take pictures with Heroes of the Empire cosplayers and your new books
• $5 OFF purchase of both released books in the Heroes of the Empire series

Split/Lip Press


SIGNINGS:
1 – 2: Tasha Coryell, Hungry People
2 – 3: Jeannine Ouellette, The Part That Burns
SPECIALS:  Sign up for our email newsletter and be entered to win a book bundle of our 2024 releases!

Trio House Press


SIGNINGS: 
11 – 12: Heid E. Erdrich, Verb Animate
All day: Dorinda Wegener, Four Fields
SPECIALS:  
•  Buy or pre-order any title and get a free copy of 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry Prompts
    Inspired by Trio House Press Poets
•  Pre-order a copy of Minneapolis Poet Laureate Heid E. Erdrich's Verb Animate and get
    a personalized signed copy
•  Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann debuts at TCBF before
    its official release date in January—buy a signed copy there while they last!

University of Minnesota Press


SIGNINGS: 
11 – 11:30: Cary Griffith, Gunflint Falling
12 – 12:30: Lee Svitak Dean and Rick Nelson, The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book
12:45 – 1:15: Teresa Peterson, Perennial Ceremony
  2:30 – 3: Marlene M. Johnson, Rise To The Challenge
SPECIALS:  30% off TCBF show special

Hours & Location


Saturday, October 19

10am - 5pm

Minnesota State Fairgrounds
Progress Center
Getting there



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