Author Extra-Event Sponsorship Opportunities

Wild Deadwood Reads is hosting year eight of our Book Fair and Legendary Events June 12-14, 2025, and we want you to be part of all the fun!

Are you looking for a way to connect directly with hundreds of people who are already big fans of books? Wild Deadwood Reads is the perfect way for you to do it! And we have fabulous sponsorship offers for you. Sponsorship opportunities come in all different sizes and prices, so grab your favorites quickly before they are gone.

Read through all the options, and what you’d like to sponsor, then use the widget below to secure your sponsorships.

Sponsorship Opportunities

When you sponsor an Extra-Event, you’ll reach Readers, Authors, Cover Models, Volunteers, and Author’s Assistants (who are all readers!) Again this year, there are no refunds on Extra-Event tickets or Sponsorships if you have to cancel.

All Event Sponsorships include your Author Logo, Business Name, and Link on the extra-event’s detailed website page.

Sponsorship: Thursday and Friday Learning Days – $25

Your $25 provides:

• Your Logo, Name, and Link listed on the Learning Day event’s detailed website page.
• Your author logo will be displayed on a card and prominently displayed during the event.

Location and Agenda: The Lodge at Deadwood, conference room.

Thursday afternoon from 1:00 to 5:00.

and Friday from 9:00 to 2:00. 

Sponsorship: Thursday Meet-and-Greet – $50

Your $50 provides:

• Help covering the room charge for this Free Event
  
• Help cover the bartender expense for this Free Event
  
• Delicious appetizers which attending readers (and you!) will greatly appreciate
• Your Logo, Name, and Link listed on the Meet-and-Greet event’s detailed website page
• Your author logo will be displayed on a card and prominently displayed during the event.

Sponsorship: Friday Wild Book Readings  – $35

Your $35 provides:

• Your Logo, Business Name, and Link listed on the Wild Book Readings event’s detailed website page.
• Strong recognition as your name and bio/info is read during the event, and a scene from your book is read (or read by you!)
• Your author logo will be displayed on a card and prominently displayed during the event
• Linda Rae Sande is your contact person for this event.

Details:

1. Would you like to have your scene read on-stage, but can’t be at the Book Reading personally? Not a problem! Choose this event sponsorship and your scene will be read by an author or volunteer. We just ask that you get your scene to them prior to the event so they have time to practice.
2. Or, will you be attending the event, and would like to read your own scene (or designate someone else to read it for you)? Great – you’re very, very welcome! Sponsorship does include ticket for event.

Sponsorship: Breakfast With the Authors from 8:00 – 10:00 am Saturday before the Book Fair – $70

Your $70 provides:

• Your Logo, Name, and Link listed on the Breakfast With the Authors event’s detailed website page.
• Sponsors, if they wish, can pick a table of their own to decorate and eat with their readers. Feel free to do giveaways at your table as well. 
• Your author logo will be displayed on a card and prominently displayed during the event.
• Sponsorship does include a ticket for the breakfast.

You’ll love the variety of opportunities available to make your brand stand out during Wild Deadwood Reads. Choose the ones that best suit your personality and the tone of your stories. Remember, repetition is the best way to keep your name on readers’ minds, and on their tongues, and we’re happy to offer many ways for you to accomplish this.

Logo on all Name Tags – $125 – only ONE sponsorship available

• Your logo in full-color (1″ x 1″) facing front-and-center on hundreds of people, and not just at the Book Fair – it’ll be seen and all over town and around the region
• Nametags are printed for Author, Reader, Cover Model, Author Assistant, Volunteer, and Corporate Sponsors.

Logo on all Author Seating Maps for Book Fair – $100 – only ONE sponsorship available

• Your logo in full-color (4″ x 4″) placed strategically on 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper handed to readers as they enter the Book Fair
• Consider including a coupon for them to bring to your table to use

Logo on all Event Schedules to be placed in the back of the neck wallet – $100 – only ONE sponsorship available

• Your logo in full-color (1″ x 1″) on the Event Schedule placed in every neck wallet (Author, Reader, Cover Model, Author Assistant, Vendor, Volunteer, Corporate Sponsor)
• Everyone refers to this schedule often over the course of the entire weekend

Logo on Goodie Bags handed out to readers – $150

• We will order and deliver the tote bags to the event. They will be given out free to attendees while supply lasts.
• These bags will be reusable, and sturdy enough to hold a number of books plus swag
• You will provide your logo in one-color, or full-color noting that full-color printing is usually a higher cost and Linda Rae will do a layout of all the sponsor logos around the Wild Deadwood Reads logo. You will have the opportunity to approve the design prior to production. 
  

Pens on Every Neck Wallet – $50 – you provide the pens – only ONE sponsorship available

• Place 250 of your branded pens on each neck wallet so everyone has your name and logo at their fingertips.
• They must be supplied prior to Wednesday night before the event so they can be put in the loop on each neck wallet. 

Neck Wallet Advertising – $20 – you provide the printed coupon – only TEN sponsorships available

• You provide a coupon that we place in the neck wallets before the event.
• They must be supplied prior to Wednesday night before the event so they can be put in the loop on each neck wallet. 

“Author Special” Announcement at Book Fair – $20 – only TEN sponsorships available

Have our MC do a special announcement to promote a book, do a sale, or tell about an event going on at your table.

Are you a publisher? Cover Model? Editor or someone else looking to get your business out to the attending authors?

Consider sponsoring water bottles or a snack for their table. Items must be delivered to the ballroom during set up the night before the event.

Feel free to attach your business card to the item. Please reach us to Ginger or Linda Rae with questions about this sponsorship.

If you’re ready to become one of the team and join us in producing Wild Deadwood Reads, please use the button below to secure your 2025 Sponsorships. We look forward to working with you to provide readers, authors, and everyone who comes to Deadwood in June a fabulous experience! Please contact Ginger with any questions. Ginger@GingerRing.com

Our Memory Book will be handed out to the first 350 readers at the Book Fair, and it’s the perfect place to advertise your business. These books have spaces where each of the Authors can autograph, which makes the books highly collectable. Your ad will be viewed long after the event ends.

Please click on the memory book advertising tab for more information on how to secure your spot in this exciting advertising opportunity.