School & Library Visits for Authors & Illustrators

This book examines school and library visits for children’s authors and illustrators, including organizing school tours, maximizing book sales, and creating presentations, workshops, and residency programs. 
These details are also included in The Children’s Writer’s Guide, which examines how you can get started as a writer, create time and space to pursue your craft and deal with lack of motivation and writer’s block. Topics covered include where ideas come from and how writers turn them into stories, choosing appropriate names for characters, the importance of historical research if your novel is set in a different era, writing science fiction and fantasy, the use of magic in stories for children, the role of editing and revision, how to deal with rejection, and marketing and promotion. 

"Once a book is written, edited and published, the work is by no means complete. Authors have to be very resourceful in how they promote their work. As Simon Rose discusses in his book, School and Library Visits for Authors and Illustrators, the need to connect with one's readers can be a satisfying undertaking. Simon leads the writer through all the possibilities and options and ways to optimize each potential interaction with young readers, be it in a school, a library or virtually. A very useful guide." Readers' Favorite