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Thank you for your interest in hosting one of our authors! We’re excited to work with you to make your author visit the best possible.
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What you should know when planning a visit:
- The details of your visit (dates, time, and location). If you’re flexible on dates, please specify.
- Choose an author. You can click below on any of our author profiles to see information on a particular author, their titles, and resources for that title such as activity kits and discussion guides. If you’re not sure which author you’d like to visit or to match your event, you can email marketing@sourcebooks.com with the details and we can help match you with the right author.
- Skype and Google Hangout Virtual visits are FREE. We just ask that you purchase the author’s title(s) according to the guidelines below in order to prepare your students or patrons in advance of the visit. In addition, you will get 25% off, plus free shipping, on your order of the author’s books when you spend $25 or more.
- For In-Person author visits, you will be responsible for the author’s travel, hotel accommodations, ground transport, and meals during their visit. For more information on in-person visits, including planning, costs, group size, and purchasing requirements, email marketing@sourcebooks.com
Other tips to make your author visit a success:
- Let people know about your author event. Make flyers, print bookmarks, and hang posters so people know when and where the author visit or event is taking place, in order to build buzz!
- Read and discuss the author’s book before the author visit/event—have students and patrons think of topics of discussion and questions for the author ahead of time.
- Utilize social media before and during the visit! We can provide you with the author’s Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram handle (if applicable) so you can share information beforehand, and post pictures and highlights the day of the event*
- Some of our titles include downloadable educator guides that are aligned to Common Core State Standards. View Educator Guides here.
- The details of your visit (dates, time, and location). If you’re flexible on dates, please specify.
- Choose an author. You can click below on any of our author profiles to see information on a particular author, their titles, and resources for that title such as activity kits and discussion guides. If you’re not sure which author you’d like to visit or to match your event, you can email marketing@sourcebooks.com with the details and we can help match you with the right author.
- Skype and Google Hangout Virtual visits are FREE. We just ask that you purchase the author’s title(s) according to the guidelines below in order to prepare your students or patrons in advance of the visit. In addition, you will get 25% off, plus free shipping, on your order of the author’s books when you spend $25 or more.
- Groups of 1–15 must purchase 2 books, or at least $25 worth of the author’s title(s).
- Groups of 16–30 must purchase 4 books, or at least $50 worth of the author’s title(s).
- Maximum group size must not exceed 30 students/patrons. (Exceptions will be made on a case-by-case basis.)
- For In-Person author visits, you will be responsible for the author’s travel, hotel accommodations, ground transport, and meals during their visit. For more information on in-person visits, including planning, costs, group size, and purchasing requirements, email marketing@sourcebooks.com
Other tips to make your author visit a success:
- Let people know about your author event. Make flyers, print bookmarks, and hang posters so people know when and where the author visit or event is taking place, in order to build buzz!
- Read and discuss the author’s book before the author visit/event—have students and patrons think of topics of discussion and questions for the author ahead of time.
- Utilize social media before and during the visit! We can provide you with the author’s Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram handle (if applicable) so you can share information beforehand, and post pictures and highlights the day of the event*
- Some of our titles include downloadable educator guides that are aligned to Common Core State Standards. View Educator Guides here.
*If your school, library, store or business has certain regulations about posting pictures of attendees please make sure to take the necessary steps ahead of time to get the proper permissions.
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