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Meet Editor Karl Jones and Agent Dawn Frederick
It started innocently enough. When Scholastic editor Nick Eliolpos spoke at a local conference, he talked about his love of Spiderman. So, I dubbed him the Peter Parker of children’s literature. And now, it’s a tradition that speakers at our conference must be tagged with a popular super-hero or super-character. Read about these figures in…
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Top 4 Tips for Conference Presentations
When an author is invited to speak at a conference–Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Science Teacher’s Association, School Librarians Association, etc–it’s a great opportunity to connect with an audience who is already inclined to like your books. You need to be ready to maximize your efforts at such a speaking engagement. Do…
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See you in New Orleans!
Are you attending the American Library Association in New Orleans, LA this summer? I’m going! I’m speaking! In an exciting group effort, I’ve joined with nine other non-fiction authors to propose a session, NON-FICTION BOOKBLAST! Here’s what we’ve done so far: Formed a group. Once the session was proposed on a mailing list of non-fiction…
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4 Tips on Promoting to Educators
Put your Book in Educator’s Classrooms A friend and I recently sat down with two librarians to talk about what they like to hear in presentations. Their needs were different: one teaches in an elementary school and one in a high school. Yet, they agreed on several things. Educators are one market for most authors…