Our authors are continuously amazed and thrilled by the fantastic turnout and pre-sales we do for schools. Recently, we hosted author James Ponti, who won the elementary Sunshine State Young Readers Award. James launched his newest book with Writer’s Block. The following is an excerpt from a Facebook post that touts the success of the event and the author's gratitude to the store.
“I want to thank everyone for making yesterday’s book birthday such a great day. Originally, the plan was to try to do three school visits (which is a lot) and an event at The Writer’s Block bookstore… Somehow the three visits became six … and it required librarians from the schools to be creative and flexible during the second week of school. The amazing staff at Writer’s Block Bookstore drove me from school to school and set up an incredible book store event.” -- James Ponti
Other authors who have had very successful author and school events include Russell Ginns, Lisa Graff, Margaret Mincks, Michelle Edwards, Ethan Long, Geoff Rodkey, Amy Christine Parker, Taryn Souders, and Neal Shusterman, to name a few! Our authors are continuously amazed and thrilled by the fantastic turnout and pre-sales we do for schools. We sold more than 200 copies of his latest book for the schools he visited and for the launch at our store, which was a standing room only. Other authors that have had very successful author and school events are, where James Ponti, and Lisa Graff, where we sold approx. 100 books, Margaret Mincks, where we sold over 75 books, Michelle Edwards, Kelly Barnhill, author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Ethan Long, Geoff Rodkey, Taryn Souders, Russell Ginns, and Neal Shusterman to name a few.
We hosted several very successful events, including Max Brailler for the release of Last Kids on Earth (108 sold); Ally Condi & Brendan Reichs for the release of The Beast ( 102 sold); Greg Van Eekout for the release of COG ( 69 sold); ticketed event for Jennifer Armentrout at the new store for the release of the Burning Shadow (60 sold); Abby Hanlon for the release of Dory Fantasmagory Tiny Tough (78 sold); Mike Lowery for the release of Everything Awesome About Dinosaurs (115 sold); Kate DiCamillo in December 2019