Kid/YA Authors and illustrators (and publicists, too), if an independent bookseller carries your traditionally published books, ask if they'll gift-wrap and ship signed or personalized copies. If your bookstore agrees, send an email with the title of your most recent book, your name, website URL, publisher, genre, suggested age of reader, along with the indie's name, URL (if they have one) and telephone number.
Tell me if you're willing to personalize for each recipient or if the bookstore is offering generically signed stock. Add a brief two- or three-sentence blurb from an established review source and attach a small .jpg of the book cover (less than 500kb) to the email.
Limit: one title per author or illustrator.
Each book will be labeled by genre, age, bookseller, author. Since this is a free service offered by me, we're sharing the work load, authors, illustrators, and booksellers, okay? I won't be able to post a book unless I have all the information above.
Last but not least, link back to Books With Flair
so your fans can not only find your books, but those created by other
authors and illustrators -- as well as a list of great independent
booksellers. The goal, as always, is to connect young readers with great books. Questions? Suggestions? I'd love to hear them!
All Signed Books Available
- ARCHIE AND THE PIRATES / Rosenthal
- BEAR-LY THERE / Raye
- BOYS OF STEEL / Nobleman
- DAY IS DONE / Yarrow
- DINOSAUR NAME POEMS / Cunningham
- DRAGON OF TRELIAN / Knudsen
- DUCHESS OF WHIMSY / de Seve
- DUST OF 100 DOGS / King
- FAERY REBELS / Anderson
- FORTUNE'S FOLLY / Fagan
- FRANKIE PICKLE AND THE CLOSET OF DOOM / Wight
- FRIEND OR FIEND? / Blume
- HANSA: THE TRUE STORY OF AN ASIAN ELEPHANT BABY / Meeker
- HOMEWORK / Yorinks and Egielski
- I AIN'T GONNA PAINT NO MORE / Beaumont and Catrow
- ISABELLE'S BOYFRIEND / Hickey
- JEREMY DRAWS A MONSTER / McCarty
- MY LIFE IN PINK AND GREEN / Greenwald
- MY LOVE WILL BE WITH YOU / Sorenson and Melmed
- MY MOM IS TRYING TO RUIN MY LIFE / Feiffer
- NICK & NORAH / Levithan
- NOTHING BUT GHOSTS / Kephart
- OPERATION YES / Holmes
- PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON / Yarrow
- QUEST / Duble
- REMEMBER ME: TOMAH JOSEPH'S GIFT TO FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT / Soctomah and Flahive
- RIVER OF DREAMS / Talbott
- RUNAWAY TWIN / Kehret
- SAME DIFFERENCE / Vivian
- SECRET KEEPER / Perkins
- SHE'S SO MONEY / Cheva
- SNOW! SNOW! SNOW! / Harper
- THE BRILLIANT FALL OF GIANNA Z. / Messner
- THE BUSIEST STREET IN TOWN / Rockliff
- THE FARWALKERS QUEST / Sensel
- THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH / Ryan
- THE HOUSE IN THE NIGHT / Swanson
- THE MAGIC THIEF / Prineas
- THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT / DiCamillo
- THE STORM IN THE BARN / Phelan
- THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY/ Han
- THE TIPTOE GUIDE TO TRACKING FAIRIES / Paquette
- TILLIE LAYS AN EGG / Golson
- TOO MANY FROGS / Asher
- UNDER THE SNOW / Stewart
- WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS / Slayton
- WHEN YOU REACH ME / Stead
- WHERE AM I SLEEPING TONIGHT? / Carol Gordon Ekster
- WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON / Lin
- Z. REX / Cole
