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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /srv/users/sandra/apps/sandra/public/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114<\/a>Today’s guest blogger, Leonardo Ramirez,\u00a0writes science fiction and fantasy for all ages. The author of Haven<\/a>, a graphic novel, as well as the upcoming Haven of Dante, a young adult prose novel, Lennie is also working on a new steampunk-genre children\u2019s series called Jupiter Chronicles. For more information,\u00a0go to\u00a0http:\/\/www.leonardoverse.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Author school visit tips<\/strong><\/p>\n By Leonardo Ramirez<\/strong><\/p>\n The kids that come to your reading or talk (I prefer to think of it as \u201changing out\u201d with them) are always wide-eyed and eager to have someone from the outside come in and change things up a little. They come from all walks of life and from different households, but for the 50 minutes or so that they are your audience, they are truly yours and there for one thing only . . .<\/p>\n . . . to have fun.<\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t visited your local school as an author and given a talk, you\u2019re missing out.\u00a0 Yes, you<\/strong> are missing out.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been asked a few times by authors who are just venturing out after the release of their first book if I have any advice as to how to conduct an author school visit. These are by far my absolute favorite type of events to do because quite frankly, adults can be harder to entertain than kids (at least for me). Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love meeting folks in general, but let\u2019s face it: Adults have much higher expectations.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what I tell those first-timers who contact me for advice:<\/p>\n Reading to kids has always made a lasting mark on me, but only when I\u2019m able to be open, honest, and most of all, fun. Enjoy the reading just as much as they do.<\/p>\n What’s your best school visit tip for authors?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>Today’s guest blogger, Leonardo Ramirez, writes science fiction and fantasy for all ages. The author of Haven<\/a>, a graphic novel, as well as the upcoming Haven of Dante, a young adult prose novel, Lennie is also working on a new steampunk-genre children\u2019s series called Jupiter Chronicles. For more information, go to http:\/\/www.leonardoverse.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Author school visit tips<\/strong><\/p>\n By Leonardo Ramirez<\/strong><\/p>\n The kids that come to your reading or talk (I prefer to think of it as \u201changing out\u201d with them) are always wide-eyed and eager to have someone from the outside come in and change things up a little. They come from all walks of life and from different households, but for the 50 minutes or so that they are your audience, they are truly yours and there for one thing only . . .<\/p>\n . . . to have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49,20],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-publicity","category-guest-columns","category-news","tag-author-school-visits"],"yoast_head":"\n\n