Reserve Your Exhibit Space TODAY
for IWPA's November Book Fair

On Saturday, November 19 IWPA authors will meet the public when our book fair moves to the Chicago Cultural Center, located at North Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street in downtown Chicago. The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with IWPA's speaker program from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. AND thanks to THE SHOP at the Chicago Cultural Center, books will be sold throughout the day!

August 1 is the deadline for IWPA authors to reserve their exhibit space, before space is opened to nonmember Illinois authors.

• IWPA MEMBERS: Registration form (html version). IWPA MEMBERS: Registration form (MS Word version).
• NONMEMBERS: Information (MS Word) NONMEMBERS: Registration form (MS Word version)

Payment must accompany registration. Here are the details:

• The book fair will be in The Café at the Cultural Center, which has great public access and has hosted many major public events, such as the Center's All That Glitters holiday bazaar. IWPA's speaker program will be in the nearby Garland Court meeting room, and will be open to the public. This year's program does not include lunch, but there will be food available at The Café at the Cultural Center.
• The expanded venue will accommodate 30 authors/exhibitors, one to a table.
• Fifteen tables are reserved for IWPA authors up to an August 1 deadline, and 15 for non-member Illinois-only authors. After August 1, unused IWPA spaces will be released for non-member authors who are wait-listed for an exhibit table.
• To reserve your table, the enclosed reservation form and payment must be received by IWPA by August 1. Please include a 100-word paragraph about "you" and/or your book(s) to use in the promotional material.
• IWPA member display tables will be interspersed with non-members to increase the flow of traffic and visibility of IWPA'ers. Sorry, no table sharing will be allowed except by co-authors or publishers who bring an author.
• Publicists and Illinois-based publishers are invited to buy a table, but only if they represent at least one Illinois author who must be present and whose book(s) must be featured.
• Exhibit tables will not be available to bookstores.
• The exhibit fee for IWPA members is only $30.
  The exhibit fee for nonmembers is $45.
• To be announced are the IWPA program speaker and a celebrity Master (or Mistress) of Ceremonies, who will open the event AND bring authors to the microphone to present a 5-minute summary of their book.

Book sales will be handled by The Shop at the Cultural Center, which will provide more security, better traffic flow and enable sales to continue during our IWPA speaker program. The bookstore will have consignment forms that announce the 20 percent fee, which will cover their additional staffing, accounting time and credit card fees. Books will need a bar code or price tag for easier handling, and all vendors must have an Illinois Tax ID. Registrants will be provided with information at a later date as to where and how to ship their books to The Shop in advance of the event. Non-sold books must be retrieved when the event closes at 3 p.m. Payment from book sales will be remitted to exhibitors within 30 days of the event. AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT THOSE PESKY RETURNS! All sales are final.

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