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DIANE STANLEY Writer & Illustrator BIOGRAPHY I BOOKS I PRESENTATIONS I BOOK ORDERING Diane
Stanley's Presentations
I generally make 3 slide presentations per day, each lasting about forty-five minutes. It doesn't matter how many children are in the room, so long as they can see the screen and hear what I have to say. MINIMUM NUMBER OF DAYS: Any visit that requires significant travel (except for conferences) requires a two-day minimum. EQUIPMENT NEEDS: I do a PowerPoint slide presentation. I need a digital (data) projector, a laptop, and the obvious accessories to go with them (screen, AV cart, extension cords). If your school does not have a projector or a laptop (with 2 USB ports), please let me know in advance, and I will bring mine. Otherwise, I will bring only a flash drive with my presentations on it and a wireless presenter for changing slides. Unless the room is extremely small, I will need a microphone. Any kind is fine.
Because of the length and complexity of my presentation and the reading level of most of my books, the ideal audience would be grades 2 and up. Though I am usually asked to speak at the elementary level, visits to middle schools are always delightful. With these children, who are too old for picture books, I give my talk more of a career spin, which they seem to enjoy. Though K-1 are somewhat young for my books, I have spoken to them on many occasions. Usually I cut the time down to twenty or thirty minutes and focus on a single, humorous book, such as Saving Sweetness or Goldie and the Three Bears . PROGRAM CONTENT: I begin by talking a little about my childhood love of books and emphasize the importance of reading in becoming a writer. I tell how I became a children's book writer and illustrator. I take them through the process of making a book, including the research, writing, editing, laying out of text, sketching, and on to the finished art. Kids are particularly fascinated to learn how I do my sketching and designing on the computer, using a graphics tablet, and how I then do the finished art in egg tempera, an archaic technique that involves making my own paints mixing powdered colors with egg yolk. I show them how I use photographs taken while on my research travels and use them as backgrounds in my biographies. HONORARIUM: Ms. Stanley's honorarium should be presented at the end of the last day of the author appearance. Generally speaking, her honorarium is $2,000 a day, plus expenses. For further information, especially about the expenses (travel, hotel, and meals), click the "Arrange An Appearance" button and see "General Information on the Cost of an Author Appearance" as well as the 'Honorariums' section near the bottom of "How to Plan an Author Appearance."
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