This document provides information about hosting author visits at schools, including potential authors, costs, and curricular connections. It lists local author Robert J. Blake who charges $1,500 for 3 presentations per day and covers his own travel, and nationally known author Roland Smith who charges $5,000 per day for 4 presentations and pays his own travel. Various funding sources are suggested like PTO/PTAs and book fairs. Potential curricular connections to authors' works are outlined in areas like history, geography, art, and more. Websites for Tennessee and Kentucky authors are also provided.

1. Melissa Williams
Tiffany Johnson

2. • Convenience
• Supporting the community
• Cost
• Greener Living
• Community development
• Support local economy

3. • 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

4. • Cost Effective
• Remind students: Authors are everywhere
• Stories with recognizable settings

5. • 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!”

6. Robert J. Blake (local) Roland Smith
• Requested Honorarium- • Author fee- $5,000 per
$1,500 day
• 3 presentations a day • 4 presentations a day
• PowerPoint presentation • PowerPoint presentation
• Willing to travel • Pays own travel, hotel and
• Will speak to any food
age, preferred audience • Speaks to any age or size
size is 125 but will speak
to larger or smaller

7. • 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

8. • 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!

10. Curricular Connections
• Rhyming
• Stay Active/Exercise

11. Curricular connections
• History
• Geography
• Animals

12. Curricular connections
• Art
• Animals

13. Curricular Connections
• Tennessee History
• Tennessee
Geography
• Native American
Stories

14. Curricular Connections
• Poetry- Walt
Whitman
• History
• Astronomy
• Theater
• Economics
• Media- Language
Arts

15. Curricular Connections
• History
• State Parks
• Families

16. Curricular connections
• History
• Social Conflicts

17. Curricular connections
• Life choices

18. Curricular connections
• History
• Myths
• Literature- Epic Poems

19. Curricular connections
• History
• Music
• Social Conflicts

20. Curricular connections
• YA Novel
• Literature Circles

21. Website for Tennessee and Kentucky Authors:
http://www.scbwi-midsouth.org/
Roland Smith
http://www.rolandsmith.com/
Robert J. Blake
http://www.robertjblake.com/