Event Schedule

Open to any page in this book and you’ll find a flexible framework designed to add intention and nuance to your next quilt. Unlike conventional how-to manuals, this book centers on the narrative of your quilt and offers practical step-by-step ideas to align every design decision you make to support the story your quilt tells. 

Prior to Zak Foster's author talk, we welcome you to join The Bubbler at Madison Public Library for a pre-event artist reception at 6 p.m. in Diane Endres Ballweg Art Gallery (third floor of Central Library). Light food and refreshments will be provided in celebration of the gallery opening.

Please note that this event will be held at The Orpheum Theater. It's free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Seating is by general admission. Doors open at 6 p.m. 

Pre-signed copies of Pitcher Perfect will be distributed for free to attendees courtesy of the Wisconsin Book Festival. Copies of Tessa's other books will also be available for purchase at the event. There will not be a signing line or personalizations at the event. 

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating sports romance about a playboy hockey rookie and the disciplined softball pitcher completely immune to his charms.

Boston Bearcats rookie Robbie Corrigan is living the dream. He’s made it to the NHL, his best friend/teammate and fellow “orgasm donor” is his roomie—and the women of Boston love them both. Life is sweet. That is, until he meets Skylar Paige, division 1 softball pitcher, girl least likely to take anyone’s bull…and the one member of the opposite sex immune to his charms. Robbie might be dazzled by the badass pitcher, but Skylar pegs him as a filthy player and wants nothing to do with him.

When he discovers she’s carrying a serious torch for her brother’s best friend, Robbie knows he should just go back to clubbing and whipped cream bikini parties, but he can’t seem to leave Skylar to flounder on her romantic quest to land another man. Nor can he miss out on the opportunity to spend time with her and hopefully redeem himself. Before Robbie knows it, he’s agreed to be Skylar’s fake boyfriend/love coach at an upcoming family wilderness competition where her crush will be in attendance. What could go wrong?

Through a series of contests that require them to trust each other, Robbie and Skylar grow closer and closer until their fake relationship starts to feel like the realest thing they’ve ever known and the sizzling lessons in sensuality burn out of control.

But it’s all just pretend…right?

In conversation with Brighton Walsh.

Please note this event will be held at Bascom Music Hall. It's free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Seating is by general admission and limited to theater capacity. Doors open at 6 p.m. 

From award-winning, bestselling author David Levithan and beloved, acclaimed singer-songwriter Jens Lekman comes a charming, tender novel about an unlucky-in-love wedding singer trying to find the right words to save his relationship.

Songs for Other People's Weddings follows J, a heartbroken musician who writes custom love songs for couples on their wedding day. He’s great at capturing other people’s stories—but can’t seem to fix his own failing relationship. As love gets messy, J wonders if there’s any way to sing through the noise. Bittersweet, funny, and deeply romantic, this is a novel about connection, heartbreak, and the music that gets us through it.

In conversation with Steven Spoerl.

Striker isn’t entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her mission is to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie about Ernest Shackleton’s doomed expedition. Along the way, she finds private if cautious amusement in the behavior of both the native wildlife and the group of wealthy, mostly white tourists who have chosen to spend Christmas on the Weddell Sea.

But when a kayaking excursion goes horribly wrong, Striker and a group of survivors become stranded on a remote island along the Antarctic Peninsula, a desolate setting complete with boiling geothermal vents and vicious birds. Soon the hostile environment will show each survivor their true face, and as the polar ice thaws in the unseasonable warmth, the group’s secrets, prejudices, and inner demons will also emerge, including revelations from Striker’s past that could irrevocably shatter her world.

With her signature lyricism and humor, Quan Barry offers neither comfort nor closure as she questions the limits of the human bonds that connect us to one another, affirming there are no such things as haunted places, only haunted people. Gripping, lucid, and imaginative, The Unveiling is an astonishing ghost story about the masks we wear and the truths we hide even from ourselves.