Local authors
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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
• Grants
• 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/