Author Event Primer: How to Plan, Execute and Enjoy Author Events

Langemack, Chapple. Author Event Primer: How to Plan, Execute and Enjoy Author Events. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. isbn 1-59158-302-0 021.26 Lange

Langemack gives practical guidance that will be useful to experienced and novice planners on how to host an author event. She covers everything, from reasons for having author visits to carrying off "the really big do", with humor and experience. The text is supplemented with charts; sample event proposals, fact sheets, letters, forms, and emails; and sidebars that illustrate the good, the bad, and how good planning can keep disasters to a minimum. If you aren't a list maker, Langemack will turn you into one before she is through. The index is thorough and useful. Libraries that do such programs should add this to their professional collection and buy a copy for the circulating collection as well, since there is a chapter for the author who'd like to approach a libary about an event. Booklist