Lisa Ard's Blog - Posts Tagged "schools"
School Author Visit Discussion
Head over to my blog: Adventures in Writing & Publishing to get in on the discussion around School Author Visits. Already I've talked about:
1) Why do author visits?
2) How to arrange author visits?
3) Preparation: content and presentation
and in the next 2 days I'll be discussing:
4) Valuable tools for author visits?
5) whether author visits are effective for book promotion
www.dreamseekeradventures.com/blog
1) Why do author visits?
2) How to arrange author visits?
3) Preparation: content and presentation
and in the next 2 days I'll be discussing:
4) Valuable tools for author visits?
5) whether author visits are effective for book promotion
www.dreamseekeradventures.com/blog
Author Visits for Free - Really?
Recently I asked a more experienced author her opinion on why book orders do or don’t happen related to school author visits. Truth is, I’ve had great book orders and no book orders following my visits.
That initial question led to a discussion of charging for author visits. You see, I offer my visits for free. This author, and most others in my experience, offer larger-scale visits for a price. From her perspective (and she’s not alone, I’ve heard these points before):
1. Schools may not take you seriously if you don’t charge a fee. Paying for an author visit leads the school to ramp up the excitement around the visit and promote the author’s books.
2. Your time is worth something. You should be compensated.
3. You’ll earn more respect if you charge.
Read my response at: www.dreamseekeradventures.com/blog
That initial question led to a discussion of charging for author visits. You see, I offer my visits for free. This author, and most others in my experience, offer larger-scale visits for a price. From her perspective (and she’s not alone, I’ve heard these points before):
1. Schools may not take you seriously if you don’t charge a fee. Paying for an author visit leads the school to ramp up the excitement around the visit and promote the author’s books.
2. Your time is worth something. You should be compensated.
3. You’ll earn more respect if you charge.
Read my response at: www.dreamseekeradventures.com/blog
