Created July 26, 2024 by Tanja Bauerle
This workshop covers how to land book signings, especially if your book has been out for more than a year. Participants will also learn how to set up a simple but effective signing table with components that will all easily fit in one piece of carry-on luggage. Fujimura discusses what to do when your signing is a complete failure (it happens!) and how to course-correct afterward. A take-home worksheet ensures that authors show up at their events with all the necessary components. It also helps authors clarify their why for each event, collect important metrics, and offers tips on how to level up their book signing game. Grab your sunglasses and a Sharpie. It’s time to meet your fans!
Book Signing Superstar
Presented by: Sara Fujimura
How to look like a professional author even if it is your first event ever.
DATE: Saturday, September 21, 2024
TIME: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LOCATION: Mesa Chamber of Commerce
165 N Centennial Way, #208, Mesa, AZ 85201
Nothing is more demoralizing than sitting at an event for hours with your Sharpie at the ready and not selling even one book. Learn the secrets to making a lasting impression, attracting positive attention, and building your brand one satisfied customer at a time.
From small library events to major U.S. book festivals to huge anime cons, award-winning young adult author Sara Fujimura has signed books at all of them. Though she is now a hybrid author, you may be surprised that many of Fujimura’s biggest signings happened BEFORE she was traditionally published with Tor Teen.
This workshop covers how to land book signings, especially if your book has been out for more than a year. Participants will also learn how to set up a simple but effective signing table with components that will all easily fit in one piece of carry-on luggage. Fujimura discusses what to do when your signing is a complete failure (it happens!) and how to course-correct afterward. A take-home worksheet ensures that authors show up at their events with all the necessary components. It also helps authors clarify their why for each event, collect important metrics, and offers tips on how to level up their book signing game. Grab your sunglasses and a Sharpie. It’s time to meet your fans!
Registration here: https://www.scbwi.org/events/book-signing-superstar
Sara Fujimura (Foo-gee-moo-rah) is the American half of her bicultural Japanese-American family and spends about a month each year in Japan. She started as a journalist, so it is no surprise that Sara’s young adult books contain a lot of facts to go along with the fiction. Whether you want to know about Japan (TANABATA WISH), the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 (BREATHE), what it’s like to be an Olympic-caliber skater (EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T), or how unscripted television works (FAKING REALITY), Sara takes readers on swoony journeys to unusual places. She is a creative writing teacher and literacy advocate who is excited to support the next generation of authors. If you go to anime cons, you may also see Sara as her alter ego, The Obento Lady. She is an active member of SCBWI and the Chicago-North Romance Writers. EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T was named an NPR Best Book of 2020. Sara is represented by Ann Rose of the Tobias Literary Agency.