An author spends a great deal of time alone (except for the characters running around in her mind) weaving words together into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into magic-if she’s lucky! After a long lonely day of weaving an author might wonder if it’s worth it. That’s just when an author needs to meet a reader. And a reader who meets an author might just want to try their hand at weaving words together too. Because of this, I enjoy doing school visits and talking with students about writing, reading, being an author, and different disorders or disabilities.
I would love to come meet the readers at your school.
Here are some possible presentations.
From idea to library shelf
Using examples of books at various stages in the process we would discuss how an idea becomes a book and all the hands the book passes through during the process. With an emphasis on the importance of revision.
How to weave a story
Looks at how an author weaves together character, setting, problem and resolution with action words, specific words, and suspense to tell a story. Sharing specific examples and a few tricks of the trade.
For both presentations reproducible worksheets are available for later use in the classroom including terms used during presentations.
Presentations, including time for questions, last 45-60 minutes.
I’d be happy to discuss other presentation ideas to meet your schools needs.
I would be happy to:
Autograph books (or scrapes of paper!),
Answer questions and share works in progress.
Visit for an hour or all day, in one classroom or many
Be a motivational speaker before special events such as Library Week, Young Authors, Parent Teacher club
Fees are negotiable
