CONTACT JOELLE

Use the form on the right to contact Joelle, or visit the Contact page.

         

123 Street Avenue, City Town, 99999

(123) 555-6789

email@address.com

 

You can set your address, phone number, email and site description in the settings tab.
Link to read me page with more information.

School Visits

Joelle loves talking to students of all ages. If your school or library is interested in a 2025-2026 visit, please contact Joelle or Joelle’s assistant (and fabulous mother), Jaci Charbonneau.

For a full-school visit schedule of 3 presentations during the day, there is a $1750 honorarium.  The honorarium will be waived if the school buys 250 copies of any of Joelle’s young adult novels, which can be purchased at a discount from Anderson’s Bookshop. (Contact them at tami.j@andersonsbookshop.com or call 630-820-0089.) You can also purchase books through your favorite local bookstore.  If your school is interested in a virtual visit and would like to order books through Anderson’s, Joelle is happy to arrange to sign and personalize any books your school orders before they are shipped to your school for disbursement.

What does an author visit entail?

Well, a lot of that is up to you.  Joelle loves talking to large groups or to smaller classes of students.  Depending on the format, the visit can be customized to what will best benefit the students.

For larger groups, Joelle discusses her writing journey.  As a former professional stage performer, she discusses how what you think you are going to do with your life isn’t always what ends up happening and that those classes you thought were useless in school often become some of the most important things you use in your future. 

Also discussed are things like:

  • Writer’s block – does it exist and how you get through it

  • How every writer is unique

  • Why conflict is awesome and makes a story better

  • World building and how each author can take the same story and turn it into something totally different using their own personal world building rules

  • Rejection – how to deal with people saying “no” and keeping your dream alive through it all

Writer workshops are also available on:

  • Rejection Bootcamp – Learning how NO isn’t always about you. As a former professional stage performer, Joelle gives you the lowdown on how to cope with rejection in all areas of your life and tells you why that dreaded word NO shouldn’t get you down. Everyone gets rejected. How you deal with it determines whether you’ll keep trying to pursue your dreams. (And you should!)

  • World Building 101 – Learn the rules of playing God with your own story and see how every author can start with the same characters and turn them into something unique.

  • Editing, Revision and Rewriting – Oh My! – Why revisions are important to writers in all stages of their career and how to look at revising your work as something exciting instead of as a drag.

Click to read The Testing Educator’s Guide

Click to read the Verify Educator’s Guide

Please visit www.thetestingtrilogy.com for other information about the series.