Now that Adriana has shown you exactly how easy it is to Skype to your library, why not try it out?
We regret that we can't include everyone, but for now this is only open to public libraries and will primarily feature adult authors.
Click through to see which authors are available for virtual visits to your libraries…
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Please email us at librarylovefest@harpercollins.com if you are interested in participating.
Adriana Trigiani is an award-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker. The author of the bestselling Big Stone Gap series, Very Valentine; Brava, Valentine; Lucia, Lucia; The Queen of the Big Time; and Rococo, she has also written the bestselling non-fiction memoir Don’t Sing at the Table as well as the young adult novels Viola in Reel Life and Viola in the Spotlight. Her books have been published in thirty-six countries around the world. She has written and will direct the big screen version of her first novel, Big Stone Gap. Her forthcoming novel, The Shoemaker's Wife, on sale April 3, 2012, is a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again.
Brad Meltzer is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Heroes for My Son, The Book of Fate, as well as the bestsellers The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, The Zero Game, The Book of Lies, and The Inner Circle. He is also the number-one selling author of the critically acclaimed comic books, Identity Crisis and Justice League of America, for which he won the prestigious Eisner Award. In addition to his writing, Meltzer is the host of the series Brad Meltzer's Decoded on the History Channel, and co-created the television show Jack & Bobby. Heroes for My Daughter, on sale April 10, 2012, brings together the stories of fifty-five remarkable individuals; a collection of inspirational, real-life stories that teach readers how to lead powerful, motivated, fulfilling lives.
Deborah Crombie is a native Texan who has lived in both England and Scotland She is a three-time Macavity Award winner, an Edgar Award nominee, and a New York Times Notable author. She is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the recent Necessary as Blood and Dreaming of the Bones, which was selected as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Her latest, No Mark Upon Her, is a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the drowning of a detective on the Thames.
Kenneth C. Davis is the bestselling author of “Don’t Know Much About®History,” which spent 35 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list when it was first published, and gave rise to the Don’t Know Much About ® series of books for adults and children on a wide range of subjects. Davis makes in-person and virtual visits to schools and libraries and posts on his website, dontknowmuch.com
Lisa Black is the author of three previous thrillers featuring Theresa MacLean: Trail of Blood, Evidence of Murder, and Takeover. A latent fingerprint examiner and CSI in Florida and a former forensic scientist for the Cleveland coroner’s office, she is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and has testified in more than fifty homicide trials. In the fourth novel in Lisa Black’s captivating suspense series, Defensive Wounds, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean finds herself embroiled in a case in which everyone has a motive and everyone is a suspect—especially when high-powered defense attorneys start turning up dead.
Book Club Girl is the alter-ego of HarperCollins Associate Publisher, Jennifer Hart.
Katrina Kittle is the author of Traveling Light, Two Truths and a Lie, and 
The Kindness of Strangers, which received the 2006 Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction. She graduated with two degrees from Ohio University—a BA in English and a BS in Education. Kittle helped found the All Children’s Theatre in Washington Township, Ohio, and previously taught theater and English to middle schoolers at the Miami Valley School in Dayton. She has also worked as a veterinary assistant. After a year of traveling, she recently returned to Dayton to begin working full-time on her fifth novel.
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Qualifications:
- Must be a public library (for now, we are primarily focused on adult authors)
- Books must be sold at the event
- A miniumum attendance of 30 people must be guaranteed
What you need:
- Skype – easily downloaded here
- A webcam
- A computer, projection screen, TV, etc
What you get:
- An interactive author program in real time– Q&A, reading, book talk, etc
- Signed book plates (we'll ship them to you in advance of the event)
- The opportunity for your patrons to interact with great authors – with no expense to the library.
Please email us at librarylovefest@harpercollins.com if you are interested in participating.