Southern California schools have an advantage, especially if it is a day trip. Please READ the confirmation agreement carefully, sign and return a copy to me. Put the author visit on the school calendar. Up to six months in advance 1. Decide how you will handle book sales.
Some schools prefer ordering directly from the publishers.
This method offers more generous discounts but also involves a lot of work. The person who coordinates the book sales will be in charge of orders from three publishers, inventory, money transactions, payment of bills, returns to the publishers and post orders. I can sometimes solve these problems with a phone call. If you do not have a children's bookseller in your area and you do not want the work or responsibility of ordering from several publishers, I can put you in touch with one of several booksellers I have worked with in the past, who can ship all my titles to you at a school discount. Someone at the school would still need to handle the sales but all of my titles would come from one point, the payment would be made out to one person, etc.