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Events Booking
To arrange for a visit to your school, library, or conference, please contact: Jean Dayton Dayton Bookings Phone 812.824.5017 email Jean Dayton _________________________________________ Movie Rights
For film rights please contact: Angela Cheng Caplan Cheng Caplan Company, Inc. Phone 310-391-8898 email Angela Cheng Caplan _________________________________________ Literary Agent For all other rights issues relating to my young adult or middle grade books, contact: Jennifer Flannery Flannery Literary Phone 630-428-2682 email Jennifer Flannery _________________________________________ Visit Pete on Facebook
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Other matters For anything else, you can write to me using the form below. Note: If you are writing to ask me for tips on how to become a writer, click here first. PLEASE DO NOT SEND SAMPLES OF YOUR WRITING! I won't read them, and you will only make both of us feel bad. _________________________________________________________
A NOTE REGARDING "REAL" LETTERS: Many teachers undertake the noble task of teaching their texting/tweeting/facebooking students how to write a real letter, printed on real paper, with a real signature, delivered by a live postal worker. I believe this is a fine thing. I also think young people should learn how to find information in a library without resorting to Google, and I think they should know how to to add, subtract, multiply, and divide without using a calculator. The United States Postal Service is a venerable and worthy institution with a long and proud history. I like getting packages. I even enjoy the catalogs. And I love getting "real" letters—especially fan letters from teenagers. Except, at the same time as I love it, I hate it, because every time I get a fan letter in the mail, I know two things are about to happen. 1) Whoever wrote it will be disappointed in me, because I will not reply,*** and 2) I will feel bad about that. For several years I always replied to fan letters. Then, as I published more books and became better known, I started to get more of them, and as the amount of fan mail increased, I was forced to "do the math." Replying requires writing the letter, printing it out, addressing an envelope, applying a stamp, and carrying it out to the mailbox. Total time: 20-30 minutes per letter. Now and then I get a package stuffed with letters sent to me care of my publisher. Replying to all those letters could take hours. So, as a rule, I don't reply to snail mail.*** I'm sorry. That is also why I do not provide my mailing address on this website. If you want to send me a note and you expect a reply, email me, and I will write back, I promise. ***If you enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your letter, I will reply gladly. |
