When registering, select a book signing time and/or a volunteer time.
Registration opens Friday, March 1st at 9am.
Only 19 signing slots are available and they’ll go fast!
You must be logged in to scbwi.org and be a PAL member to register as a signer.
All premium SCBWI members are welcome to sign up as a volunteer.
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, attracting more than 150,000 book lovers, is the single best place to sell your product to America’s largest book buying market.
SCBWI-L.A. has purchased a booth at the festival. As a PAL member, you can rent time in the booth for selling and signing your work. You will share your time with other SCBWI PAL members.
– 2 hour time slot: $50
– 3 hour time slot: $75
The fee you pay SCBWI-L.A. will help recoup costs for the event so we might continue to provide such services in the future. It includes:
We may donate generically signed books to a couple of schools. If you would like to participate, please let us know what book or books you will be providing so we can determine if we will do the donation this year. We will let you know prior to the festival whether to bring the signed donation material to the event.
The SCBWI booth will not have a store. Presenters are responsible for their own sales. If you’re taking cash, you’ll have to make your own change. If you’re swiping cards, using Venmo, PayPal, etc. on your cell phone, you’re responsible for the technology involved with that. You’re also responsible for your own sales tax.
You may leave a box of your books at the SCBWI booth prior to your presentation time, but ONLY ON THE DAY OF YOUR PRESENTATION, and only as space is available on a first come basis. Any materials left at the end of the business day will become the property of SCBWI (we'll use them for various giveaways, so they won't go to waste). All boxes must be stackable, meaning we can put heavy things on top of your stuff without collapsing your box or the materials inside of it. Artwork, easels, posters and other odd-sized materials can be stored for the day only if space is available. Please be understanding and have an alternate plan if a volunteer tells you, "I just don't have the room."
If you have a huge following, and expect a hundred people, please feel free to bring a friend to work your line – selling books ahead of your signing, putting post-it notes of how to personalize the signing, etc. We will have volunteers, but can't guarantee we'll have enough to loan out to you.
You will be presenting at an 8-foot table with two other people – so you’ve got about 2.5 feet of table space. You’re welcome to bring promotional material such as bookmarks, postcards, fliers, etc. but be respectful of the professional next to you.
If you have posters or artwork that requires an easel (yours), please:
Please be punctual and polite in dealing with the signer in the seat before and after your timeslot. If you still have fans when your time is up, feel free to step out of the booth to engage with them.
Refund Policy: There will be no refunds for this event.
You must be logged in to scbwi.org and be a PAL member to register as a signer.
All premium SCBWI members are welcome to sign up as a volunteer to help set up, take down, and run the booth.
If you first register as a volunteer and later wish to register to sign books, please email losangeles@scbwi.org to let us know.