Chicago Event Schedule
WILD AND WINDY 6
May 16, 17, and 18, 2024
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY EVENTS
4PM: HOTEL CHECK-IN
5PM-6PM: VENDOR SETUP (EVENT STAFF WILL BRING LANYARDS AND REGISTRATION PACKETS TO VENDORS THAT ARE SELLING DURING EARLY REGISTRATION)
6PM-8PM: ATTENDEE / AUTHOR EARLY REGISTRATION (DAMARIS: LASALLE BALLROOM AREA). Pickup your welcome packets, event totes, lanyards, and prepaid, pre-ordered My Wild and Windy 6 Journals.
6PM-10PM: THESE VENDOR SHOPS OPEN (LASALLE BALLROOM AREA): Bend Me Not Creations, Dark Midnight Design Co., Messterpiece, Novel Momma Designs, That’s Mrs. Laser to You
8PM-9PM: ANNOTATION KIT AND BOOK JOURNALING DEMONSTRATION by Midnight Design Co. In the Amphitheater.
9PM-10PM: FRIENDSHIP BRACELET TRADING AND NEW ATTENDEE ORIENTATION by Shabby from Book Bistro Blog. In the Amphitheater.
6PM-10PM: AUTHOR SET-UP GRAND BALLROOM & LAKESHORE (welcome packets on tables for authors who can’t make the earlier registration time slot)
FRIDAY EVENTS
FRIDAY DAYTIME
SIGNING SESSION 1
8AM-10AM: AUTHOR ADDITIONAL SET-UP TIME (welcome packets on tables for those authors who could not pick up at Thursday registration or Thursday evening setup)
8AM-10AM: ATTENDEES CAN PICKUP PREORDERED PREPURCHASED ITEMS FROM VENDORS.
9AM: VIPS (GOLD) CAN REGISTER in front of the doors to the Grand Ballroom and line up in the breezeway beside this ballroom.
10AM-11AM: EXCLUSIVE VIPs ONLY EARLY ENTRY HOUR to see the authors in the GRAND BALLROOM AND and in the Lakeshore Ballroom.
10-11AM: GA’S (PINK) CAN REGISTER AND LINE-UP in the breezeway beside the Grand Ballroom.
11AM: PINK LEVEL CAN ENTER the Grand Ballroom and/or Lakeshore Ballroom.
2PM: SIGNING SESSION 1 ENDS
FRIDAY NIGHT TIME
5PM-6PM: VENDOR SET UP
6PM-10PM: VENDORS SHOPPING. LaSalle Ballroom hallway and Michigan Ballroom hallway. NARRATORS, Photo op, and bartender in Michigan Hallway. Open to all ticket holders.
6PM-7PM: VIPs ONLY EXCLUSIVE PANEL PROGRAMMING. Dual concurrent locations. Michigan Ballroom and the Amphitheater. VIPs are welcome to choose either panel during this hour. However, keep in mind that if one room reaches capacity, you will have to choose the other one. For panelists and topic graphics scroll down. Special VIP panel programming wristband will be included in your VIP welcome tote. A VIP wristband is required to enter either panel during the VIP hour. We suggest putting it on your wrist and keeping it there until the early hour VIP panels are over.
7PM-10PM: PANEL PROGRAMMING FRIDAY SESSION Open to all Ticket Holders. Dual concurrent locations. Michigan Ballroom and the Amphitheater. For panelists and topics scroll down. First come first serve for each panel. Panels are 45 minutes long and the room will be cleared between panels. See attendee group for panels that will be live streaming.
7PM-10PM: KAMA SUTRA BINGO (Madison Ballroom) listed as “bingo” on the door. Be warned. It’s totally inappropriate. Paperback prizes.
7PM-10PM: FUN IN THE SUN PARTY (LaSalle Ballroom.) VIP ONLY. Luau theme. Featuring all Author Sponsors, except Giana Darling and Piper Rayne. This is an additional opportunity for VIP ticket holders to meet these authors, buy their merchandise and books, and get signatures. If you would like to bring books for our author sponsors, you may bring them and get them signed at this time. However, there will be no author preorder pickups as their tables and preorders will already be set up in the Grand Ballroom. You can also play party games (luau and xxx themed) run by volunteers and win swag pack prizes. There will also be a scavenger hunt with several winners, and a bookish T-shirt contest (prize is a VIP ticket to Wild and Windy 7). There will be a special Fun in the Sun themed gift for each VIP in your tote, and the LaSalle Ballroom will have a Fun in the Sun photobooth for commemorative frame. Cash bar will be available with the flirty fizz, the Fun in the Sun signature drink.
SATURDAY EVENTS
SATURDAY DAYTIME
SIGNING SESSION 2
9AM: VIPS CAN REGISTER in front of the Grand Ballroom and line up beside it.
10AM-11AM: EXCLUSIVE VIPs ONLY EARLY ENTRY HOUR to see the authors in the GRAND BALLROOM and in the Lakeshore Ballroom.
10-11AM: GA’S PINK LEVEL CAN REGISTER & LINE-UP in the breezeway beside the Grand Ballroom.
11AM: PINK LEVEL CAN ENTER the Grand Ballroom and/or Lakeshore Ballroom.
2PM: SIGNING SESSION TWO ENDS
SATURDAY NIGHT TIME
5-7 PM: Westin and WW Core Volunteer crew prep the Grand Ballroom for the After Dark Pajama Party.
6-8 PM: LET’S TALK ABOUT S-E-X IN SPICY BOOKS AND NARRATORS WILL BE READING SPICY SCENES
Yes, we are going there! Scroll down for the graphics showing the author and narrator panelists, panel times, and locations. Three locations for panels: LaSalle, Michigan, and Amphitheater. All ticket holders are welcome. Saturday panels are 45 minutes long. Room will be cleared between panels.
8PM-10PM: AFTER DARK PAJAMA PARTY. (Grand Ballroom) ALL AUTHORS & TICKET HOLDERS WELCOME. DESSERT BAR. CASH BARS with a signature drink, a chocolate martini. Vendors, narrators, and/or authors may be present. DJ. Dance floor. After Dark Photo Booth with a commemorative frame and a photo op backdrop. Last opportunity to mix and mingle for our authors and attendees. Trading station for friendship bracelets, ribbons, stickers, etc. Get all your book friends to sign your My Wild and Windy 6 Journals before you say goodbye.
SUNDAY EVENT
10AM-12PM AFTER PARTY EVENT AT THE LAST CHAPTER BOOK SHOP. 2013 W Roscoe St, Chicago. Cupcakes and sparkling wine available while supplies last. Authors from the signing may appear. All readers and authors welcome.
