Contacting
Clare B. Dunkle
To arrange an author visit or special event
If you are interested in arranging
an author visit to a school, library, troop, or club, you
may use this form to contact me. Or you may email
me: clare at claredunkle.com. Or you can
contact Laura Antonacci, who handles author visits and publicity
at Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing at 212-698-2713
or author.appearances at simonandschuster.com.
Because of an aggressive writing schedule, I can accept only
one visit request per month. I keep my calendar on the front
page of this section, so you can consult it to see which months
are still available. When you contact us, please suggest the
days that will work best for you; my writing work is more
fluid than your curriculum or work schedule, so chances are
good that I will be able to work with your date.
My normal speaking fee is $1000
plus travel expenses for a visit of up to two days. I live
in San Antonio, Texas, so please keep that in mind as you
estimate costs. Of course, I don’t require that my visit
be for two days. I’ll be happy to come for one hour! However,
I offer the two-day deal because it allows you to split the
cost between schools or send me to more than one branch of
your library if you would like to do so. I’m happy to
hold as many engagements within that two days as you and your
neighboring libraries/schools can arrange. A two-day visit
gives me enough time to host a fiction-writing workshop if
I can meet with the same classes both days.
Many readers contact me
in order to ask a question about one of my books, such as
whether or not the book is being made into a movie. I have
posted questions and answers on the following pages:
The
Hollow Kingdom
Close Kin
By These Ten Bones
In the Coils of the Snake
I also have posted general questions
and answers about my career on this
webpage. And I have posted questions and answers about
writing on this page.
Before contacting me,
please take a look at these pages to see if I’ve answered
your question already. If I haven’t, please send it
to me, and I will answer it as soon as I can and post it to
the webpage, too, when I have time.
Unfortunately,
I cannot read your written work, such as a story, poem, or
manuscript. To find out why, please
read this page.
To request a signed bookplate,
please follow the directions on this
page.
I
have put my very best writing and publishing advice in this
separate section. Please read all the pages before writing
to ask me any questions about book publishing.
Please note that I cannot
advise you on whether or not you should use a particular agent,
publishing house, or editor. I cannot give further
advice on self publishing, subsidy publishing, or book marketing,
either. And I cannot advise you on legal or contract
questions. You need to speak to a lawyer.
WHY HAVEN’T I ANSWERED YOUR
EMAIL?
I personally answer every email
that comes to the website within a couple of weeks (sometimes
longer if I am facing a manuscript deadline). If you haven’t
received an answer, one of the following things has gone wrong:
a) you filled in the form and forgot to fill in your email
address; b) your email address is invalid; or c) your email
account has blocked my reply to you as “spam.”
Unfortunately, the last problem happens quite frequently!
If you haven’t received a reply, please
email me again from a different account and let me know it is the second
time you are trying to reach me. Perhaps another email address will not
be so picky.
Or you may write to me at the following address:
Clare B. Dunkle
P.O. Box 680284
San Antonio, TX 78268
This is a United States address.
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