Author Presentation
("An Encounter with a Celebrated Author") is an ever-changing highly-visual program showing my  life, family, influences, obstacles to artistic success, illustrators, and work. It highlights the fact that English was not my family's first language, too. The children view pictures of me at all ages, and I read from my books, taking questions and answers throughout. This lasts from 30 to 60 minutes, depending upon the ages of the students. (I have created 7 age-and-interest-appropriate shows.)

Most schools have me do 2 Author's Presentations for all the children, and then target one grade level for the Writing Workshops:
     1. usually conduct 2 assemblies per day, or
     2. workshops per day.

I can also: conduct one presentation and two workshops in one day, or 2 assemblies and one workshop, or on rare occasions, and only if I can spend the night, 3 workshops in a day (they are truly too intense and intensive to do more!)

Some schools have me do Author's Presentations for the whole school and then a staff development workshop for teachers at a faculty meeting or a staff development day.

My Book Ordering Kit is easy to use, and most schools do make books available for sale to the students' families. I provide the kit, which asks that books ordered from all my publishers be sent directly to me so that the school does not have to deal with all the sorting of orders, etc. In my office, I personalize each book, autograph it, apply any stickers, insert any bookmarks, etc. if there are any available at the moment, and return the books to the school on the day of our event, all collated and packaged by classroom teacher. Straggler orders on any books published by Gingerbread House present no problem at all, since that is my own press, and we always bring extras.

As far as availability goes, my writing program is in very high demand on Long Island before the English Language Assessment test begins here in New York State. Many schools have me in for a shot of iron before this standardized test (though I do NOT teach for the test.) We can always find days, however, so please contact me when you can so that we may find mutually convenient dates.

I charge by the session, so that schools may configure them as they please. For sessions not on Long Island, I charge $700 each, with a minimum of two relatively back-to-back sessions. The booking school is responsible for travel, lodging, and meal expenses. Travel  may be in the form of a per-mile driving cost. My daughter, Maria Nicotra, often accompanies me as my assistant, but I cover her expenses myself. I donate a set of autographed books to the school library, which I send in advance.

To help offset the costs of bringing an author in, most schools order my books at the generous discounts offered by the publishers, and then add some small amount to the offered price, effectively using the book order as a kind of fund-raising. Some schools find that this pays for the programs entirely.

I'm in and out of the office, but T check email regularly. If you'd like to chat, please call me at 631 288-5119, or email Joi@JosephineNobisso.com.  It Would be my pleasure to speak with you.

Thank you for your kind interest in my award-winning programs. I'm sure we can work together to fill the school's needs, bringing in valuable and engrossing programming for the children!

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