Okay, she probably won't show up at your house, but she'd be happy to visit your school or library. Contact KL to inquire about rates and dates. Here's what your visit could include:

KL is available for conferences, key note addresses, workshops, panels and small group/classroom visits. Speeches and workshops are tailored to the needs of specific
audiences. Examples of previous topics include, "What I Learned about Being an Author from Working at an Agency", "First Books", and "How a book becomes a Book."

Small group visits include a 40 minute talk in which she walks the kids through the experience of publishing using her own books as a model.

Having worked in publishing before becoming an author, KL introduces props from various stages of the publishing process. She reveals how her books start out in the idea phase and even brings the first book she ever wrote - an unpublished novel written in high school. She then talks about how she moved from that earliest point to the point of publication. KL brings examples of adult and children's book
manuscripts, a publishing contract, the first cover sketches for Fat Kid, galleys of books before press, an edited and a copyedited manuscript (so kids can learn the difference) and foreign editions of various books. There's time for questions after the presentation and she will often read a selection from one of her books.

KL's goal with her author visits is to give kids a hands-on look at the publishing process and to make the time as engaging as possible. She has given versions of this presentation to audiences ranging from pre-K through adult and finds audiences of every age equally fascinated to see first-hand how a book evolves from idea to finished product.

If your group were to book a longer visit, she would be happy to include writing exercises as well.

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