Book Me For An Author Visit!
Pictures by Paul Goyette. |
I love meeting readers and doing presentations about my adult sci-fi Dare to Know and my YA fantasy The Order of Odd-Fish. I also run workshops and screenings for my 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. Over the years I’ve done countless author visits to libraries, book festivals, and classrooms. In the Chicago area, one-session appearances of up to 60 minutes are $500. All-day visits to schools (many sessions in one day) are $1000. Outside of Chicago, prices include travel and accommodations. (Too steep for your budget? I’m flexible. Email me anyway at kennedyjames@gmail.com, we’ll work something out.) My programs include: Dare To Know Presentation. I talk about my new adult sci-fi novel Dare To Know (coming out September 14, 2021) and what inspired the book. Appropriate for book club discussions and general presentations. |
|
Video clips from previous programs! In this first one I’m cavorting with the teens of the Schaumburg Township Public Library, when they caught me in the wild, tied me up to the reference desk, and tried to “tame” me. The School Library Journal’s Betsy Bird concluded that “James Kennedy is the greatest physical comedian/writer of his generation.” Are you seriously going to disagree with Betsy Bird of the School Library Journal?!
And here is my Dome of Doom writing workshop at 826CHI:
I have a special place in my heart for librarians: I’m married to a librarian, and my speech at the 2009 American Library Association conference in Chicago—in which I stripped Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book) of the Newbery Award, winning it for myself fair and square in a fantastical series of trials—was hailed as a surprise highlight. Check it out here.