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Events Booking
To arrange for a visit to your school, library, or conference, please contact me directly at: petehaut@comcast.net _________________________________________ 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
Review Copies Advance copies of new titles are made available to qualified reviewers by my publishers. Please contact the publicity department at the appropriate publisher. Sorry, I do not have their email addresses, but you should be able to find them online. Donations I am frequently asked to donate books for various causes. In recent years the requests have been coming hard and fast, and I can’t tell the genuine requests from the people who are just angling for a free book. Even if I could sort them out, it is prohibitively time consuming and expensive. Therefore all requests for book donations—no matter how compelling—will be denied. I am sorry. |
Other matters For anything else, you can write to me using the form below. Note #1: I respond to all emails received through this site. If you don't receive a reply, it's probably because you mistyped your email address. About 10% of the messages I receive have a mistyped email address. Please, if you want a reply, type with care. Note #2: 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 by post 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 dozens of letters sent to me care of my publisher. Replying to all those letters would 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. I will also reply if you include an email address. |