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Nine Tips for a Successful Book Signing Event

My essay “Nine Tips for a Successful Book Signing Event” got posted on September 16, 2017 in the Michigan chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators newsletter called The Mitten. The editor is Kristin Bartley Lenz. I recommend ways to benefit from doing a book signing at a school, library, conference, bookstore, etc.

Here is the first paragraph of my essay.

I have been doing signings since 2006 when my first book for children was published. Such events benefit from advanced planning; working closely with the people who staff the library, school, bookstore, conference, or fair; practicing how to read your book creatively; having a craft or activity to engage children; cooperating with other authors or illustrators at the event; proudly hawking your merchandise; bringing promotional materials; making a display attractive; and personalizing your autograph for customers.

You can read the whole essay at the link below:

http://scbwimithemitten.blogspot.com/2017/09/nine-tips-for-successful-book-signing.html?spref=tw

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).

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  1. Todd Hicks October 9, 2017

    The information you provide is helpful. I might strongly consider doing events to promote my books.

    1. Janet Ruth Heller October 9, 2017

      Dear Todd Hicks,

      I hope that your book events go well. Best wishes for your creative work! Janet

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