w/s School visits

I'm available for school visits, and readings. Please contact me for
pricing.

School Visits and Writing workshops:

Tolerance for others- or Lack There of -

Bullying in the schoolyard.

Here I talk to children about the consequences of bullying, some other
options to express feelings, and being prepared to live with the
consequences of your actions. Interactions and role playing.

The story behind the story - How my books came to be.

Consists of a reading from one of my novels and then I tell the
process of how books become books from idea to finished book. 45
minutes with a 15 minute question period.

An Author's Career
The ups and downs of being an author. What do authors do during the
day? How much do we get paid? How do we deal with rejection and
revision? 45 minutes with a 15 minute question period.

Show Don't Tell

Through a series of guided writing exercises and group sharing,
students learn how to enhance their own natural writing talents and
improve their creative work by using revealing detail (1 hour with one
or two classes at a time).

Breathing Life into your Characters

An hour-long workshop on character development and how to make
your characters real. With tips and character sketch worksheets.

Letting the Dominoes fall

An hour-long workshop on setting up stories so they run smoothly
beginning to end.