Kansas Library Association

KLA/MPLA Joint Annual Conference

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Wichita, KS

From Page to Stage: Creating Rewarding Author Events in Your Library

Thomas Fox Averill, Professor Emeritus, Washburn University, Topeka, KS author of Secrets of the Tsil Cafe (2001), The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson (2003), rode (2011), Found Documents From the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr (2018)

Kaite Stover, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO

The book is what brings librarians, authors, and readers together and author events in the library are a terrific way to celebrate all three. Listen to an award-winning author and award-winning librarian talk about crafting an author event for the library that stimulates the audience, circulation, and book sales. Library staff will learn how to create an author event that goes beyond a book signing. They will receive a program planning check list that includes marketing strategies.  Authors will learn how to present their books to programming librarians for potential library events.

Powerpoint presentation

Program planning checklist

Author Event Primer: How to Plan, Execute, and Enjoy Author Events by Chapple Langemack. 2007. Libraries Unlimited.