Author Visits
Arranging an author visit or special event

If you are interested in arranging an author visit to a school, library, troop, or club, you may use this form to contact me. Or you may email me: clare at claredunkle.com. Because of an aggressive writing schedule, I can accept only two visit requests per month. I keep my calendar on the front page of this section, so you can consult it to see which months are available. When you contact me, please suggest the days that will work best for you; my writing work is more fluid than your curriculum or work schedule, so chances are good that I will be able to work with your date.

My normal speaking fee is $300 plus travel expenses for a one-day visit, or $500 plus travel expenses for a two-day visit. Beyond that, I charge $250 plus travel expenses for each additional day. I’m happy to hold as many engagements as you and your neighboring libraries/schools can arrange. A two-day visit gives me enough time to host a fiction-writing workshop if I can meet with the same classes both days.

Many readers contact me in order to ask a question about one of my books, such as whether or not the book is being made into a movie. I have posted questions and answers on the following pages:

The Hollow Kingdom
Close Kin
By These Ten Bones
In the Coils of the Snake

I also have posted general questions and answers about my career on this webpage. And I have posted questions and answers about writing on this page.

Before contacting me, please take a look at these pages to see if I’ve answered your question already. If I haven’t, please send it to me, and I will answer it as soon as I can and post it to the webpage, too, when I have time.

Unfortunately, I cannot read your written work, such as a story, poem, or manuscript. To find out why, please read this page.

To request a signed bookplate, please follow the directions on this page.

I have put my very best writing and publishing advice in this separate section. Please read all the pages before writing to ask me any questions about book publishing.

Please note that I cannot advise you on whether or not you should use a particular agent, publishing house, or editor. I cannot give further advice on self publishing, subsidy publishing, or book marketing, either. And I cannot advise you on legal or contract questions. You need to speak to a lawyer.

WHY HAVEN’T I ANSWERED YOUR EMAIL?

I personally answer every email that comes to the website within a couple of weeks (sometimes longer if I am facing a manuscript deadline). If you haven’t received an answer, one of the following things has gone wrong: a) you filled in the form and forgot to fill in your email address; b) your email address is invalid; or c) your email account has blocked my reply to you as “spam.” Unfortunately, the last problem happens quite frequently!

If you haven’t received a reply, please email me again from a different account and let me know it is the second time you are trying to reach me. Perhaps another email address will not be so picky.

Or you may write to me at the following address:

P.O. Box 680284
San Antonio, TX 78268

This is a United States address.

Photo copyright 2004 by Joseph R. Dunkle. Special thanks to AAFES and PMG International for setting up the above event at the Heidelberg Mega Bookmark.