Trade Show 2012

Kent Haruf

Ally Condie

Amy Stewart

Jonathan Evison

Rhoda Janzen

Amy Hatvany

Kevin Powers

Lindsey Leavitt

Barbara Shapiro

David Abrams

Karleen Koen

2012 Exhibitor Reservation Forms

2012 Exhibitor Reservation Forms – Handwritten Version 

Click here to download this three-page PDF. Complete and send to arrive no later than August 1, 2012, with your check made payable to MPIBA to: Kathy Keel, MPIBA Administrative Office, 208 E. Lincoln Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524. Phone: 970-484-3939; Fax: 970-484-0037;

2012 Exhibitor Reservation Forms – Digital Form Version

Click here to download this three-page PDF. Complete digitally and send to arrive no later than August 1, 2012, to info@mountainsplains.org. Follow with your check made payable to MPIBA to: Kathy Keel, MPIBA Administrative Office, 208 E. Lincoln Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524. Phone: 970-484-3939; Fax: 970-484-0037;

Coast to Coast Trade Show Services

Materials Handling (Drayage)
Exhibitor Services Manual and Order Form

Click here to download this eight-page manual.

Please note that it is THREE TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE to ship your books and materials directly to the hotel than it is to ship to Coast to Coast Trade Show Services. The hotel does not have the personnel/facilities for handling, overseeing, or storing your Trade Show shipment … and MPIBA never knows where your valuable items might end up. Coast to Coast and MPIBA must then find your shipment, identify it, remove it from the hotel, store it, and deliver it back in time for the Trade Show, which is time-consuming and costly. If you ship directly to the hotel, you will incur additional charges from Coast to Coast for handling your shipment.

Please use the shipping labels provided in this packet, as they identify whether your shipment is destined for the exhibit hall floor or for an author appearance at the Show. You do NOT need an MPIBA-assigned booth/table number in order to complete the Order Form in this Exhibitor Services Manual.

Trade Show 2012

Preliminary Schedule of Events

Wednesday, September 19

Registration Open: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Advisory Council Meeting: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

New Member “Meet & Greet”: 8:00 pm

Thursday, September 20

Registration Open: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm<

Exhibitor Set-up: 7:30 am – 3:00 pm

Children’s Author & Illustrator Breakfast: 8:00 am – 9:15 am

Pick of the Lists Session #1: 9:30 am – 12:15 pm

General Meeting Luncheon: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Pick of the Lists Session #2: 1:45 pm – 4:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Opening Reception: 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
-Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar
-Author signings at publishers’ exhibit tables
-”Literary Trivia” game emceed by Craig Popelars
of Algonquin Books.

Friday, September 21

Registration Open: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm

Authors of Buzz Books Breakfast: 8:00 am – 9:15 am

Exhibitor Hall Open: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm<

Exhibitor Hall Open: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Afternoon Author Tea – Children’s: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Cocktail Reception: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Author Banquet for Literacy: 7:30 pm

Saturday, September 22

Registration Open: 7:30 am – 3:00 pm

Authors of Future Releases Breakfast: 8:00 am – 9:15 am

Educational Programming for Booksellers (and one for reps)

9:30 – 10:30 am
ABA Programming

9:30 – 10:30 am
Pinterest – Pinning for Profit & Social Media 101
Presented by Drew Goodman

9:30 – 10:30 am
Beating E-Books with Backlist (core adult)
Hosted by Anne Holman<

10:45 – 11:45 am
Publishers — What’s the 411? Session 1

10:45 – 11:45 am
Beginner Edelweiss
Presented by Joe Foster, Edelweiss

10:45 – 11:45 am
Rep Edelweiss
Presented by Michele Sulka

12:00 – 1:15 pm
Reading The West Book Awards Luncheon
Presented by Drew Goodman

1:30 – 2:30 pm
Publishers — What’s The 411? Session 2

1:30 – 2:30 pm
Success with Self-Published Authors
Presented by Liesl Freudenstein

1:30 – 2:30 pm
Best Thing I Did This Year — Bookseller
Presented by Andy Nettell

2:45 – 3:45 pm
What, No Website?
Presented by Susan Wilmer

2:45 – 3:45 pm
Gift Lines Are Good Money
Presented by Anne Holman with panelists

2:45 – 3:45 pm
Extreme Edelweiss
Presented by Liesl Freudenstein

“Books & Brews”
Afternoon Author Event – Adult: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm&