Giving Access to Authors and Their Messages to EVERY Student
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The Program
Schools/Librarians/Admin
Option 1
Choose Author Access Fundraising to replace or supplement book fairs with a fundraiser that provides a truly educational experience.
Here’s a bit about the fundraiser:
* School sends home flyers, posts on social media, and reminds families via school messaging system. That’s it. 1-2 hours.
* Students/Parents subscribe for $12 (or $65 including subscription and 8 autographed books)
* School gets 50-75% of the subscriptions. Just 350 students participating earns more cash reward than a $10,000 book fair. NO minimums.
* Autographed books are available to order all year from our website or through bulk orders. School earns 10-25% of those purchases.
* School gets a FREE subscription for in-building use. That means EVERY student benefits.
* Subscriptions are renewable annually. WE do the work, YOU earn the same percentage year after year.
Click “Help” tab above to ask questions for get more information.
To schedule your event, hover over “Fundraiser” tab above and click “School Fundraiser Signup”
Option 2
Combine Author Access with a Read For My School event.
Set reading and fundraising goals in this easy-to-run donor-style fundraiser.
Click Here to see more and sign up for this option.
Parents/Students
Author Access is a new company that provides exclusive recordings of 8 fantastic authors per year for schools and students of all ages. These authors include major award winners, bestsellers, popular book fair favorites and top newcomers. By subscribing, your student will also be able to attend LIVE Q&A sessions with the authors throughout the year (at school).
Students will also have the opportunity to order autographed copies of the authors’ books now or later.
For just $12, you will get to see a new author each month (Jan-Apr and Aug-Nov). The school gets 50% of every subscription – plus a portion of every book ordered throughout the year.
For just $65, you will get the full annual subscription PLUS one autographed book from each author. Including shipping, handling, and tax: That’s a $95 value! With this option, the school earns 75% of the subscription.
To Participate:
- Click Here to go to the signup page.
- Select the $12 basic 1 year subscription or $65 option that includes the annual subscription plus 1 autographed book from each current year author.
- Click “Sign Up Now“
- Fill out the form.
Be sure to select your school from drop down list. If your school is not listed, choose “My School is Not Listed” and provide your school’s name in the box.” - Once signed up, click “Authors” tab, select the author you want to watch and view video.
Unlock a new author every month
Exclusive FREE access to LIVE video sessions with our authors. Great for Q&A’s with students!
Special incentives for book orders and school referrals
* Videos hosted by Vimeo. If service to Vimeo is blocked in your school, videos will be provided in another format.
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Current authors
We’ve assembled an all-star cast of authors. Every year, we will have a mix of best-sellers/award winners, popular characters/book fair favorites, and at least one newcomer you might not have heard of … yet.
Our current authors include:
Click on the author’s picture to access videos and more …
Stuart Gibbs
NYT Bestseller and multiple award winner
Stuart Gibbs is the author of five bestselling middle grade series: Spy School, FunJungle, Charlie Thorne, Moon Base Alpha, and The Last Musketeer. He also writes TV and film. Before all that, he studied capybaras, the world's largest rodents. Really.
April 2026
Margaret Peterson Haddix
New York Times Bestseller, Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner,
Margaret Peterson Haddix has written more than 50 books for kids and teens, including Running Out of Time, Uprising, The School for Whatnots, the Greystone Secrets series, the Shadow Children series, the Missing series. Haddix and her husband Doug live in Columbus, Ohio.Please enter a short bio for the author.
March 2026
Valerie Bolling
Crystal Kite Award Winner
Valerie is author of multiple pictures books and Scholastic Acorn Series Rainbow DaysPlease enter a short bio for the author.
February 2026
Max Brallier
NYT Bestselling Author. More than 10 million copies in print
Max is the NY Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Last Kids on Earth Series - which have more than 10 million copies in print. Max also writes the Eerie Elementary Branches series (under the pseudonym Jack Chabert, plus Galactic Hot Dogs, and many more.
January 2026
Josh Funk
Multi-State Award Winner
Josh Funk is a software engineer and the author of books like the Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast series, How to Code a Sandcastle, Dear Unicorn, Dear Dragon, My Pet Feet, the It's Not a Fairy Tale series, Lost in the Library, and more
April 2025
Billy Dixon
Author Access founder
Billy Dixon, the founder of Author Access, has published 7 chapter books and middle grade titles. Dixon has presented at more than 250 schools, and has worked in the school book fair business for more than 20 years.
March 2025
Jerry Pallotta
Book Fair Bestseller
Jerry is the author of perrenial book fair favorites like the Who Would Win series.
February 2025
Jessica Khoury
Multiple Award Winner
Jessica is the author of many books for teens and young readers. Her middle grade novel The Mystwick School of Musicraft is one of the Top 20 listened to children's audiobooks ever.
January 2025
Henry Cole
New York Times Bestseller
Henry Cole, known for illustrating works by authors like Julie Andrews and Harvey Feinstein, is also a prolific author with over 15 books to his name. He has garnered numerous awards and accolades for his writing and illustrations.
November 2024
India Hill Brown
Book Fair Bestseller
India Hill Brown is an author with a passion for writing, reading, and all things literary. Her debut novel, The Forgotten Girl, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Youth/Teens and a 2020 ALSC Notable Children’s Book.
October 2024
Future authors
We just keep lining them up to keep our content refreshed and relevant throughout the year.
Some of our future authors include:
Click on the author’s picture to access videos and more …
Adam Gidwitz
Newbery Honor Winner, Bestseller
Adam Gidwitz is the author of Newbery Honor winner The Inquisitor's Tale, The Grimm series, and The Unicorn Rescue Society series.
September 2026
Why Author Access
Author Visits are Time-Consuming and Require a Lot of Work
Not every student has the opportunity to experience these visits, and Author Access is the only solution.
According to a Recent Survey by SchoolVisitExperts.com, Author Visits:
Motivate Students
to Read More
Inspire Creativity
and Expression
