Melissa Williams

Tiffany Johnson

• Convenience

• Supporting the community

• Cost

• Greener Living

• Community development

• Support local economy

• Give students a live experience with someone who writes

or illustrates books

• Real world experience

• Learn from someone other than their teacher

• Gets kids excited about reading

• Helps kids connect to stories in a more meaningful way

• Cost Effective

• Remind students: Authors are everywhere

• Stories with recognizable settings

• Author fee

• Travel and accommodations fee *

• Publicity

• Developing the collection to include more books by this

author*

• Books to sell for autographing

• Staff Time

* Ways that local authors can save you “green!”

Robert J. Blake (local)

• Requested Honorarium-

$1,500

• 3 presentations a day

• PowerPoint presentation

• Willing to travel

• Will speak to any

age, preferred audience

size is 125 but will speak

to larger or smaller

Roland Smith

• Author fee- $5,000 per

day

• 4 presentations a day

• PowerPoint presentation

• Pays own travel, hotel and

food

• Speaks to any age or size

• Community Support

• Community Sponsors

• School funding

• PTO/PTA

• Specific Fundraiser: Book sale or book fair, car

wash, after school party, pot luck school meal before

another event, t-shirt sales

• Can’t bring an author to you kids? Bring your kids to the

authors!

• October 14-16 Legislative Plaza

Downtown, Nashville, TN

• Authors: Nashville’s own Ann Patchett, T.A.

Barron, Chris Bohjalian, Pseudonymous

Bosch, Charles Frazier, Walter Mosley, Tom Perrotta

and MANY more!

Curricular Connections

• Rhyming

• Stay Active/Exercise

Curricular connections

• History

• Geography

• Animals

Curricular connections

• Art

• Animals

Curricular Connections

• Tennessee History

• Tennessee

Geography

• Native American

Stories

Curricular Connections

• Poetry- Walt

Whitman

• History

• Astronomy

• Theater

• Economics

• Media- Language

Arts

Curricular Connections

• History

• State Parks

• Families

Curricular connections

• History

• Social Conflicts

Curricular connections

• Life choices

Curricular connections

• History

• Myths

• Literature- Epic Poems

Curricular connections

• History

• Music

• Social Conflicts

Curricular connections

• YA Novel

• Literature Circles

Website for Tennessee and Kentucky Authors:

http://www.scbwi-midsouth.org/

Roland Smith

http://www.rolandsmith.com/

Robert J. Blake

http://www.robertjblake.com/