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Susan
Juby
Authors’ Booking Service is pleased to announce that
award winning children’s and YA author Susan
Juby, is now scheduling visits to Ontario schools.
Her rate is $300 for one session, $500
for two, $850 for three and
$1000 for four, plus GST and $60 per session for accommodation and
travel. Susan will be staying in downtown Toronto during the week of
the Festival of Trees. She can take the subway or GO Transit to
schools, but for those less accessible venues, she would appreciate a
ride with a teacher.
Published
Works
Alice, I
Think,
HarperCollins, 2003
Miss
Smithers, HarperCollins 2004
Alice
MacLeod,
Realist at Last, HarperCollins, 2005
Another
Kind of Cowboy,
HarperCollins, 2007
Getting
the Girl,
HarperCollins, 2008
Nice
Recovery,
Penguin, 2010
Awards
and Nominations
Alice, I
Think (Thistledown, 2000, HarperCollins, 2003),
nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and for the
Canadian Association Best Young Adult Novel Award. It was named a Best
Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association and chosen as
an Amazon.com Top Ten Teen Book and as a Kirkus Editors’ Choice.
Miss
Smithers (HarperCollins, 2004) was the winner of the Sheila A.
Egoff Award for Children’s Literature, a finalist for the Stephen
Leacock Medal for Humour, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book
Award, the White Pine Award and for the Stellar Award. It was also
selected by the International Youth Library as part of their annual
selection of outstanding international books for children and young
adults.
Alice
MacLeod, Realist at Last (HarperCollins, 2005) was nominated for
the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award.
The Alice
books are all national bestsellers and were published in the U.S., the
U.K., Australia, Indonesia and Finland. Alice, I Think was made
into a 13-part television series for CTV and the Comedy Network.
Another
Kind of Cowboy (HarperCollins, 2007) was nominated for the White
Pine Award and was a finalist for the Canadian Library Association
Young Adult Book Award and the Stellar Book Award. It was a Kirkus
Editors’ Choice book and it was shortlisted for the 2009 James Cook
Book Award by the Ohio Librarian’s Association. It was an ALA Best Book
and an ALA Rainbow Book.
Getting
the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance and Cookery
(HarperCollins, 2008) was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery
Writer’s of America and for the Arthur Ellis Award by the Crime Writers
of Canada. It was also a Kirkus Editors’ Choice and was selected by the
International Youth Library as a White Raven Selection and has been
nominated for the 2010 Georgia Peach Award. And it was nominated for
the 2010 White Pine!
Susan’s
Presentation Details
- I start
out with a bit of background about myself and the books I enjoyed
reading as a child.
- I talk
about the events in my life that made me start writing and that give me
inspiration for my books
(tales of dysfunction and misery, mostly!)
- I talk
about the publishing industry and life as a writer and how to cope with
rejection and success and writer’s block
- I also
sometimes talk about the process of having my book adapted into a
television series
- I give
short readings from my books and answer questions
Suitable
Grades: 8 – 12
Ideal number of
students per session: 60, but I will consider larger groups
Writing
workshops available for grades 6 - 12
Maximum
number of participants in a workshop for best results: 16
Venues: I am
comfortable in most settings (classrooms, libraries, theatres), but
prefer to avoid gyms.
Equipment
and other requirements:
- a glass
of water would be much appreciated
- I prefer
a librarian or teacher be present throughout the presentation
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