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We are now READY to handle book sales for your VIRTUAL school visits too! 

Now, when you create a visit book sale you'll notice a field that asks if your event will be virtual or in-person. This will determine some wording on the flier we generate and on your book sale web page. You'll need to mail signed bookplates directly to the school in the case of virtual visits.

You also now have more control over the book sale cutoff date with two choices:

1. Two weeks prior to your event (for books to arrive at the school before your visit) OR...
2. Two days afterward (which allows students to meet you before the last day to order but books arrive about 2 weeks after the visit). 

Another fun change to our business model is that we have implemented a buying incentive that automatically gives back to the school: $1 for every hardback purchase and .50 for every paperback! This info is stated on the flier we generate for your event.

It's going to be very interesting how school will unfold this fall, but no matter how you connect with students, we are here to make the book-selling part easy ... on everyone :)

Sincerely,

-Shanda McCloskey
Author-illustrator and co-creator of AuthorVisitCentral.com

Welp. It just happened to me. A local school I was going to visit next Wednesday is closing for a bit of time because of Corona virus fears. The school you're scheduled to visit could be next. Here is a Facebook post from an author and speaker I admire about how she is handling her upcoming visits:

Kate's plan sounds good to me! I will plan to carry out all local visits that are scheduled unless the school closes or asks to reschedule.

If you have an upcoming visit that is postponed or cancelled and AuthorVisitCentral is handling the book sales here are some things we can do:

1. We can easily extend the book ordering deadline to a later (postponed) date. Email shanda@authorvisitcentral.com.
    
2. If no orders have been placed, the book sale can be cancelled by emailing shanda@authorvisitcentral.com.
    
3. If the book sale is far along (books have shipped), let the books ship to the school and wait for the postponed event.
    
4. If the event is cancelled but books were purchased, the sale must continue and the books will ship to the school as planned. We highly encourage the author to send signed bookplates by mail in this situation.

Let us know if you have any questions. We will navigate this together!

Stay well!

Shanda

We are pumped to launch AVC! I mean, it's 2020, school visit books sales shouldn't be so complicated! So, here we are just trying to make something that helps people.

If you are an author or illustrator who does school visits, I hope you'll try us out! If you are a librarian or author visit coordinator, we would be happy to invite your upcoming visiting author to use our service. And if you are an indie bookstore that would like to join our list, contact us and we will be so happy to send business your way!

So... let's do this, together!

-Shanda

We're almost ready to launch AuthorVisitCentral for authors to use! We have been testing the service with a few authors, making tweaks, adjustments, and generally making the system itself as easy to use for authors as it is for parents to order books.

We're so excited to share it – stay tuned!