With students at Bishop Watterson High School, Columbus, Ohio, February, 2008.

BOOK AN AUTHOR VISIT
Lisa will speak at schools, libraries, bookstores, book groups, and conferences.

PRESENTATIONS
MAKING HISTORY--INTO FICTION. Using historical photographs, pictures from her travels, and her novels, Lisa demonstrates how she transforms the raw material of history into settings, stories, and characters that engage a modern reader. Presentation focuses either on Two Girls and Cate of the Lost Colony or Ophelia and Lady Macbeth’s Daughter. (Grades 7-12; adults) Pairs well with workshop I.

FROM PAGE ONE THROUGH PUBLICATION.
Getting started and persisting as a writer. The importance of reading. Discovering your writing process and your voice. What agents and editors do. The writer’s life. Designed to motivate and inform. (Grades 7-12; adults)

MY LIFE WITH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. From directing a high-school parody of Macbeth to publishing Ophelia and Lady Macbeth’s Daughter, Lisa explores her changing relationship to Shakespeare, the creative process, and how reading and teaching literature helped her to find her calling as a writer. Also touches on artistic and critical representations of Shakespeare’s female characters. (Grades 9-12; adults)

DEATH OR MARRIAGE: THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR YA HEROINES? How Lisa navigates between comedy and tragedy in creating heroines who are historical yet relevant to modern readers. (Grades 9-12; adults)

All talks 45 minutes with Q&A
Projector required for presentations, except for "Death or Marriage."

WORKSHOPS
I. Finding a story within a picture. An exercise in creating setting, story, and character, drawing inspiration from historical photographs.
II. Writing builds character. A series of exercises to help you invent memorable characters, develop their voices, and create conflict that will leave them (and your reader) changed.
III. From scene to story. Starting your story with a bang and keeping up the pace. The arc of a story, from opening scene to resolution of the conflict.

All workshops require AT LEAST one hour (and a projector).

FEES, BOOK ORDERS, ETC.
A visit is most successful when students are familiar with the author's work covered in the presentations. Go to "for Readers" for links to readers' and teacher's guides.
For discounted book orders in connection with an author visit, call 646.307.5370

Lisa's fees are $250 for a single presentation; $750 for an entire day (up to 4 presentations/workshops) and $1000/day if an overnight stay is required.

Consider a Skype visit! Fee is $250 for an hour discussion. Q&A is the best format.

CONTACT TO SCHEDULE
authorlisaklein@gmail.com