<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Trish,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have a visiting authors program at my two school libraries .... these are some of the authors we have invited to speak.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(Elementary)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Carol Tremain</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Robbyn & Gijsbert (Nick) Van Frankenhuyzen<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(YA authors)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Eliot Schrefer</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Emily Deibel-direct (new self published)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bethany Neal-direct </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cori McCarthy-agent/publicist</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gordon Korman-agent</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Tim Green-agent</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ben Mikaelsen-agent</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(Adult)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Kimberly McCreight-agent</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Kelly Fordon-direct (Michigan Notable)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Josh Malerman-direct (Michigan Notable)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default">(I added few that have presented at MAME too) </div><div class="gmail_default">The Michigan authors are usually much less expensive.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Check the Michigan authors database through MeL too; they have a lot of resources.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Trish Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tburns@baycountylibrary.org" target="_blank">tburns@baycountylibrary.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_8607736802947772632WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Good morning! My great Friends group wants to sponsor an author visit in 2017. For those of you have had successful author visits, would you please let me know who it was and whether you went through an agent or booking service? Thanks much - <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Trish Burns, Director<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bay County Library System<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">500 Center Avenue<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bay City, MI 48708<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:tburns@baycountylibrary.org" target="_blank">tburns@baycountylibrary.org</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="tel:989-894-2837%20ext.2214" value="+19898942837" target="_blank">989-894-2837 ext.2214</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img width="250" height="85" id="m_8607736802947772632Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D23F1A.EEF48EB0" alt="logo_bcls-1"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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