Author Interview With Jami Gigot
Guest Speaker: Jami Gigot Website: www.jamigigot.com Bio: Jami Gigot is the author/illustrator of the picture books Mae and the Moon, Seb and the Sun, and the forthcoming Imagination Vacation (2019)....
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Author Interview With Michele McAvoy
Guest Speaker: Michele McAvoy Website: www.MicheleMcAvoy.com Bio: Michele McAvoy is an award-winning children’s book author and inspirational speaker from New Jersey. As a child, she read Judy Blume and drew...
Author Interview With Lindsey Lane
Guest Speaker: Lindsey Lane Website: www.lindseylane.net Bio: Lindsey Lane is an award-winning author, playwright and journalist. She is the author of young adult novel Evidence of Things Not Seen, (Farrar,...
Author Interview With Barbara DiLorenzo
Guest Speaker: Barbara DiLorenzo Website: www.barbaradilorenzo.com Bio: BARBARA DILORENZO graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration, and studied painting at the Arts Students League...
Let's Make It Your Most Engaging National Reading Month Ever!
Welcome to MARCH – NATIONAL READING MONTH! To celebrate, we’re providing you some FRESH content ideas for your blog, social media, or customer newsletters. We’re confident these will make the...
Create a Cozy and Engaging Library Space
Imagine looking around your library and seeing cozy nooks, engaging areas and warm corners– with happy children reading and interacting with their parents and caregivers. Who doesn’t want that? A...
Using Facebook’s Special Features To Help Promote Your Bookstore
A note from the editor: A new year means new sales goal for your bookstore and if you want to crush them, you’re going to need to think outside of...
TIPS to EARN LOCAL MEDIA COVERAGE for YOUR LIBRARY!
Do you ever turn on your TV and see local companies and organizations receiving awesome media coverage and think: HOW do THEY get on the news and HOW can MY...
Author Interview With Shutta Crum
Guest Speaker: Shutta Crum Website: www.shutta.com Bio: Shutta Crum, an award-winning writer of books for children and poetry for adults, is a storyteller and a retired youth librarian who was...
Author Interview With Laura Lee
Guest Speaker: Laura Lee Website: www.worldoflauralee.com Bio: Laura Lee is an author, illustrator, and designer. She grew up in the sleepy mountains of West Virginia where she spent many formative...
Two New Ways Increase Attendance At Storytime
A note from the editor: A new year means new sales goal for your bookstore and if you want to crush them, you’re going to need to think outside of...
Author Interview Series-Debbie Gonzales
Guest Speaker: Website: www.debbiegonzales.com Bio: Debbie Gonzales is a career educator, curriculum consultant, former school administrator and adjunct professor, and once served as a SCBWI RA for the Austin Chapter....
Author Interview Series-Tami Charles
Guest Speaker: Tami Charles Website: https://tamiwrites.com Bio: Former teacher. Wannabe chef. Debut author. Tami Charles writes picture books, middle grade, young adult, and nonfiction. Her middle grade novel, LIKE VANESSA,...
Author Interview Series-Laura Gehl
Guest Speaker: Laura Gehl Website: www.lauragehl.com Bio: Laura Gehl is the award-winning author of picture books with humor and heart, including ONE BIG PAIR OF UNDERWEAR, the PEEP AND EGG...
Author Interview Series-Shelley Johannes
Guest Speaker: Shelley Johannes Website: www.shelleyjohannes.com Bio: Shelley Johannes is the author-illustrator of the Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker series (Disney-Hyperion). Her first career was architecture— where she fell in...
Author Interview Series-Rob Broder
Guest Speaker: Rob Broder Website: RobertBroder.com Bio: I am the Publisher and Creative Director at Ripple Grove Press, an independent, family-owned picture book publishing company that I started with my...
Author Interview Series-Hannah Carmona Dias
Guest Speaker: Hannah Carmona Dias Website: www.hannahcarmonadias.com Bio: Hannah Carmona Dias is a Writer who currently resides in Tennessee. Beautiful, Wonderful, Strong Little Me is her debut book which tackles...
Author Interview Series-Lana Button
Guest Speaker: Lana Button Website: www.lanabutton.com Bio: Children’s author Lana Button grew up in the tiny border town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick. She has a background in theatre performance...
Summer Interview Series-Creating a Buzz Around a Launch
Guest Speaker: Dana Malstaff Website: www.boss-mom.com Bio: Dana Malstaff is the CEO and Founder of Boss Mom. She is a mother, author, business strategist, podcaster, blind spot reducer, and movement...
Summer Series Interview: Marketing Using Magazines
Guest Speaker: Naomi Blackburn Website: www.indiepicksmag.com Bio: Naomi Blackburn, owner of The Author CEO, a consultation firm dedicated to helping independent authors navigate the development of strategic business plans and...