Authors’ Booking Service is pleased to announce that Saskatchewan author, Pam Bustin, is now scheduling visits to Ontario schools in May 2010. Pam is also available for virtual “SKYPE” visits to Ontario schools anytime during the school year. 

Pam would love to plan a visit to your school or library.  Her rate is $250 per session for “LIVE” visits plus travel costs.  Discounts are available for multiple sessions and virtual visits.  

Pam is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada, and so schools wishing to invite her “LIVE” may be eligible for a travel and fee subsidy to offset the cost of her visit. Contact us for details of this program.  

PUBLISHED WORKS: PAM BUSTIN   

Novels:

Mostly Happy (Thistledown Press 2008) is a 2010 White Pine nomination. It won Fiction and First Book awards at the Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2008.  It is one of Pennsylvania School Librarians Association's YA Top Forty Fiction titles for 2008 and has been long-listed for the 2010 - 2011 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Award. 

Plays:

Saddles in the Rain (The West of All Possible Worlds, Playwrights Canada Press 2004) won the John V. Hicks award in 2002. 

Short Stories:

A Girl Named Bean (spring! Volume 4, October 2005) 

Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Transitions 2004) 

Bad Men Who Love Jesus (The New Quarterly Issue 86 Spring 2003)

  

PAM’S PRESENTATION DETAILS   

I will give an introduction to how I became a writer, how Mostly Happy came to me, read from my work, and describe the writing process.  Each hour-long presentation ends with sufficient time for Q&A. 

I will present to: Grade 9-12. 

Maximum number of students per session: 300 

I am also pleased to offer...

Writing Workshops to Creative Writing students – class size 20 

I am comfortable in a classroom, library, auditorium or gymnasium. 

I require: Projector/screen/table for “real” visits. Skype or iChat capable computer for virtual visit.