List of events including author visits to schools, libraries, book clubs, and…
This is your go-to-source for Jean Alicia Elster’s list of events including author visits to schools, libraries, book clubs, writing groups, conferences and book fairs.
Available now: Jean Alicia Elster’s young adult novel HOW IT HAPPENS.
To order your copy, click here.
To view the virtual launch event via YouTube, CLICK HERE
Virtual Event—
Saturday, March 1, 11:15a – 6p
Get Inked Teen Writing Conference
“Writing and Time Travel” Workshop with Jean Alicia Elster
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, Indiana
Jean Alicia Elster will lead two workshop sessions titled “Writing and Time Travel.” In each session, teen writers will learn how to pull a reader into their story by creating authenticity in the narrative. The workshop will explore how to collect authentic details through compelling oral histories as well as how to select specific details and then use them effectively in their story. For more information, click here
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Sunday, March 2, 10 a – 5 p
Jean Alicia Elster at Leon & Lulu’s
March 2025 Books & Authors Event
96 West 14 Mile Road
Clawson, Michigan 48017
Returning to this juried book fair, Jean Alicia Elster will celebrate her award-winning historical fiction trilogy that is based upon her maternal family: HOW IT HAPPENS, THE COLORED CAR and WHO’S JIM HINES? She will join other local authors who will meet and greet Leon & Lulu’s customers and autograph their books. For more information, click here
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Saturday, May 17
SCBWI-Michigan Spring Writers and Illustrators Conference
Theme: “Making Books Bloom”
Breakout session by Jean Alicia Elster: “Talking It Out — Blooming through Conversations”
Washtenaw Community College
Ann Arbor, Michigan
In her session “Talking It Out — Blooming through Conversations,” Jean Alicia Elster will describe how she mined information from a range of conversations—from casual talk at a conference to deep dive family oral histories—to help create authenticity in her family-based historical fiction trilogy. Participants are invited to bring notes about a conversation (recent or not!) for a hands-on exercise. For more information, click here
Please continue to #SupportIndieBookstores.
Some Detroit-area independent bookstore links are posted below–
The Book Beat: click here
Source Booksellers: click here
Booksweet: click here
Next Chapter Books: click here
27th Letter Books: click here
