{"id":633,"date":"2014-10-03T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2014-10-03T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:51:44","slug":"heartland-fall-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/heartland-fall-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heartland Fall Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We spent today at the Heartland Fall Forum, put on by the <a href=\"http:\/\/midwestbooksellers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Midwest Independent Booksellers Association<\/a> in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gliba.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association<\/a>. The combined membership represents several hundred booksellers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlandfallforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heartland Fall Forum<\/a> is a regional trade show that supports and celebrates independent bookselling.&rdquo; [from their website]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nikki Johnson, Joy Dey, and Anna Skarie (all of us!) visited the Partners booth for&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlandfallforum.org\/in-booth-signings\/\">in-booth signings<\/a> of <em>Just Another Monday<\/em> and <em>One Gorilla<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_133503.jpg\" class=\" wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-635\" alt=\"20141002_133503\" src=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_133503-203x300.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_133503-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_133503-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_133503.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a blast &ndash; we met so many great people. Nikki, the illustrator for <em>One Gorilla<\/em> painted TWO fabulous turtles, with pink highlights \ud83d\ude42 and it was fun to have SWAK Publishing&rsquo;s presence so appreciated. Here&rsquo;s my spot for a shout out to all the Wisconsinites that showed up and especially those who brought their book coupons too &ndash; you guys rock!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_135831.jpg\" class=\" wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-636\" alt=\"20141002_135831\" src=\"http:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_135831-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_135831-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141002_135831-1024x688.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Forum was an exciting reminder that publishing is thriving. There were so many excellent books and the people who make them and make them happen.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wwm_social_share wwm_top_left\"><li class=\"wwm_facebook\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_twitter\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_gplus\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_pinit\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_tumblr\"><\/li><li class=\"wwm_linked\"><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent today at the Heartland Fall Forum, put on by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association in partnership with the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. The combined membership represents several hundred booksellers. &ldquo;The Heartland Fall Forum is a regional trade show that supports and celebrates independent bookselling.&rdquo; [from their website] Nikki Johnson, Joy Dey, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swakpub"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JhDF-ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sitwithakid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}