Author Visits
I would be thrilled to do a visit to your school, library or bookshop/book club!
I have been training and presenting for over 35 years in international business arenas, in classrooms, and in child-focused programs. As a professional, non-frontal trainer, I engage my audience, no matter how big or small and regardless of topic. Because of that, no visit is like any other. I’m an open book: whatever you want to know, I’m happy to share!
Because I live in western Europe, doing a circuit overseas would require a bit of coordination with multiple school districts. But don’t let that stop you! I am readily available for virtual visits!
Virtual Visits (45-60 minutes)
Multiple classes from the same school are welcome to participate as long as they’re in the same grade range.
300€/visit*
In-person Visits
I can do up to 4 hours in the same school or area in a day. I can present my book, talk about writing as a profession, talk about my author journey, teach a writing workshop, or just speak passionately about my books, about history, about resistance, about heroism, about ordinary people in extraordinary times. Tell me who you are, and I’ll tailor an exciting and engaging presentation for you!
For in-person visits, reach out, let’s talk, let’s coordinate!
DACH-FL Visits
€300/hour + transportation costs*
European visit on main continent
€400/hour + transportation costs*
Overseas visits (USA, Canada, UK, etc.)
€500/hour*
*All rates are before required sales taxes.
Presentations are usually done in English, but I also speak fluent German and Ukrainian.
Presentations about
Ukraine – Then and Now
As a Ukrainian American, I was raised speaking both English and Ukrainian. We celebrated and practiced traditions and customs from “the old country” as well as being reminded how we were lucky enough to now be in the U.S. My life was a constant balancing act between the Ukrainian diaspora, who was on a mission to preserve all things Ukrainian after the country was swallowed into the Soviet Union, and the American red-white-and-blue, apple-pie, hot-dog, football culture we all reveled in.
My early adult life found me shaping a career in storytelling that would bring Ukraine’s history more into the spotlight. In 2014, I won the first of many awards for a story called Souvenirs from Kyiv. That was then turned into a six-story anthology based on real-life histories under the same title. A second book, The Woman at the Gates, was published by Bookouture/Hachette UK, and is also one of the few WW2 novels where Ukraine’s complex and intriguing history is the background to an engrossing and heart-wrenching story. Based on my great aunt, who was a spy, a lover, and a courageous Ukrainian patriot, who ran an underground resistance cell.
When Scholastic USA approached me about writing a middle-grade novel set in Crimea in 2014, and using the illegal annexation by Russia as the background, I was more than thrilled. I took the job of sharing this story with young readers very seriously. Swimming with Spies is the thrilling result!
It’s not just my books…
I have travelled the world, lived in four countries and taught children and adults in three of them. Since 2003, I have been running my own training center in English as a second language, coached the international business community in cross-cultural and intercultural topics, held presentations training, a variety of soft-skills trainings and even empathy training (a.k.a., “how to be nice in the face of meanness”). I have written teaching materials, developed corporate training games, and online teaching tools for my participants and my clients. I am also now teaching creative writing to those who have never believe in their own creative abilities.
So, besides the 15 books under my belt, I’m chomping at the bit to meet your people and deliver an engaging, eye-opening presentation!
Do you want me to visit your school, library or club?
Contact me here! Or send me your thoughts and questions!
As war escalates between the Russians and Ukrainians in the port city of Sevastopol, can one girl and a pod of dolphins prove that communication is the greatest weapon of all?
A breathtaking
read that asks, what
would you risk to
protect the ones you love?
– Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch,
acclaimed author of Winterkill and
Making Bombs for Hitler
PUBLISHED BY
