Virtual Visitors
Authors Booking Service
Happy Valentine’s Day to One and All!
We’re delighted that many of our members are currently offering virtual visits, which bring authors and illustrators to your students without the cost and complication of travel.
To date, the following members are available to visit your class virtually:
Don Aker: $150 + HST, 60 minutes, Skype
Helaine Becker: $200 plus HST, 60 minutes (may be divided) Skype
Hugh Brewster: $ 120, 60 minutes (may be divided) Skype
Marty Chan: $250 plus GST, 60 minutes, Skype
kc dyer: $150 plus HST, 60 minutes, Skype
Joan Marie Galat: $175 plus GST, 60 minutes, Skype
Natale Ghent: $150, 60 minutes, Skype
Vicki Grant: $150 plus HST, 60 minutes, Skype
Adrienne Kress: $150, 45 – 60 minutes, Skype, ichat or by phone
Carol Matas: $250, 60 minutes, Skype
Mahtab Narsimhan: $150 plus HST, 60 minutes, Skype
Monique Polak: $150 plus HST, 60 minutes, Skype
Margriet Ruurs: $200, 50 minutes, Skype
Cyndi Sand-Eveland: $125.00, 45 - 60 minutes, Skype
Lesley Simpson: $150, 60 minutes max, Skype
Arthur Slade: $150.00 + HST, 60 minutes, Skype/Google Talk/iChat
Gail Sidonie Sobat: $150, 60 minutes, Skype
Allan Stratton: $150 + HST, 60 minutes, Skype
Meg Tilly: $150 plus HST, 60 minutes, Skype
Robert Paul Weston: $175 plus HST, 60 minutes, Skype / Google Talk
Caroline Pignat: $150, 60 minutes, Skype
Lois Peterson: $ 150, 60 minutes (may be divided) Skype
Contact us at a...@authorsbooking.com to book your virtual visit today!
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NEWS
Liam O’Donnell’s graphic novel Food Fight (artwork by Mike Deas) has just been nominated for a Joe Shuster Award in the Comics for Kids category. This award recognizes the works which capture the attention and fascination of readers 14 and under, and help to create a passion for life-long reading. Liam would love to visit your students to discuss his work!
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NEW RELEASE
Valerie Sherrard: Accomplice. Lexie Malton has a terrible secret. Her ex-boyfriend, Devlin, is now a heroin addict living on the street, and only Lexie knows that she’s the one who put him there. Then Devlin enters rehab and Lexie finds herself drawn back to him, never guessing what a dark and deadly path she has just chosen. (Accomplice is one of two debut novels in the new Keystone series – high interest stories for reluctant readers, from Dundurn.)
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A PERSONAL GLIMPSE OF GAIL SIDONIE SOBAT
Gail Sidonie Sobat is very excited about the release of her new novel, Chance to Dance For You, based in part on a real-life story. As an educator, Gail has worked with a number of gay and lesbian youth, and has witnessed the intolerance that many marginalized young people too often experience – from peers, adults and communities. Gail tends to write about the underdog, having herself been misunderstood and ostracized in her teens. Such was the subject of her recent paper at the Bern Institut in Bern, Switzerland in May 2010. There, as presenter and guest author, she spoke about this theme and also about the difficulties of being a female author who writes YA literature, long considered the “poor cousin” of “real” literature by “real” authors. Gail hopes to aid in dispelling this myth, and to see more YA books by Canadian writers in Canadian high school English classes.
This year has also been busy with the re-organization of YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write…just about anything!© For fifteen years, these summer and winter immersion camps—with a multidisciplinary approach to creative writing—have been Gail’s passion. She believes in the power of young voices.
Gail will be in the GTA from April 25 – 30. Contact us today to book her!
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ABS MEMBERS coming your way!
Sigmund Brouwer has availability for the following dates and locations:
March 1: Oshawa, one time slot open
March 2: Barrie, one time slot open
March 3: Southern ON
April 25: Southern ON
April 26: Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge, one time slot open
Jo Ellen Bogart will be in Ottawa and has dates available April 18 and 20, 2011. Transportation for her trip to Ottawa is being partially subsidized, so is much reduced.
Philip Roy (Submarine Outlaw) is available in the GTA, Hamilton and Oakville area in April.
Gail Sidonie Sobat will be in the GTA and is available for school and library visits on April 27 and 28.
Jacqueline Guest is available in Toronto on the morning of April 28.
Jo Ellen Bogart is available in Woodstock on the afternoon of May 2. No travel costs.
Helaine Becker is available in Brantford in the morning on May 3.
Helaine Becker is available in Peterborough in the afternoon on May 5.
Celia Godkin will be in the GTA and is available for bookings May 24 - 26.
Tololwa Mollel will be in the GTA and is available for bookings May 24 - 30.
Helaine Becker will be in the Ottawa area several times this school year and will waive travel costs for full day bookings (4 sessions).
Don Aker: Tentative spring visit, contact us if you’re interested.
Lois Peterson: Silver Birch Express Nominee for The Ballad of Knuckles McGraw will be in the GTA May 9-15, 2011.
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OUR MEMBER LISTS!
Click here for a direct link to our list of Forest of Reading nominees:
http://authorsbooking.com/2043/2064.html
A list of our regular members can be seen here:
http://www.authorsbooking.com/2043/index.html
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Questions? Comments? We’re listening!
Marsha & Valerie
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Valerie Sherrard: val...@nbnet.nb.ca or Marsha Skrypuch: mar...@calla.com