Sep 1, 2022
Our topic today is all about crafting presentations and
programs for school visits inspired by your books, with our special
guest, author Shelli R. Johannes!
During the talk, Shanda asks
Shelli these questions…
- Shelli, on your website you have a thorough
menu of different author visit presentations that correlate with
various books you’ve written. Such as: Shine Like a Unicorn -
Great for anti-bully week! includes reading and discussion on
standing out and not being afraid to be yourself. And
Theo TheSaurus - Logophiles love reading and writing! Includes
reading Theo and discussing how to fall in love with reading.
Do you craft a presentation for every new book you write?
- How do you go about crafting presentations? Do
you use a formula that works for you?
- How have educators responded to your various
presentations? Are there any that are more popular than
others?
- I see that you also offer several professional
development sessions. (This is a fairly new concept to me. We
talked about it in our last episode with Lola Schaefer quite a
bit.) Are you booking those sessions
often?
- Do you offer writing workshops? Any that would
require more than one session with the same
students?
- How do you handle book sales at your
visits?
- On social media, I noticed once that you posted
honestly about your introvertness and sitting in your car right
before a school visit and dreading that moment when you have to
suddenly turn it “on”, walk in, and go perform. Does this happen to
you every time? Do you relax once you start? This is an issue for
so many of us creatives, so I’d love to go on a little tangent and
talk about this.
- What’s one thing you’ve learned over the course
of doing school visits? Or what’s your main advice to other authors
who are starting out.
- Anything you wish I had asked?
Thanks for joining us , Shelli!
That wraps up our 22nd episode all about crafting programs around
your books with Shelli R. Johannes!
You can find me at www.shandamc.com, on
Twitter: @ShandaMcCloskey, and on
Instagram: @shandamccloskeydraws.
Shelli, where can folks find
you? https://www.srjohannes.com/
I’m so excited because for the
very first time we had a kid (that I didn’t know) send in a book
review! So here’s a special shout out to Ava! You made my day,
kid!
This podcast is sponsored by
AuthorVisitCentral.com and produced by Ben McCloskey. And if you
enjoyed this episode, pleeeease rate-and-review us! We may even
read your written review (on Apple Podcasts) on the next
episode!
We love to hear from our
listeners. Feel free to leave comments, ideas, and even have your
kid record a kid book review on AuthorVisitPodcast.com. We might
use it as the kid book review on the next episode!
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episode of the Author Visit Podcast!
Resources and books mentioned in this episode (with
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