Usually my in-print books can be supplied through a local children’s bookseller. Sometimes (ask!) local booksellers will even help with sales at a school before or during an author visit. Most offer a 20% discount off the cover price. If my books are not in the store, the bookseller should still be able to order them for you--given a couple of weeks advance notice. To find local, independent bookstores in your area go to Booksense.
Amazon and Barnes & Noble have nearly all my books, even the ones that are out of stock or out of print at my publishers. These on-line bookstores can usually deliver books by mail within a few days. To find out what they have, do a search on "Williams, Suzanne." You'll want to cross-check the titles that come up against my list of books before you order, however. There's another Suzanne Williams who writes nonfiction for children. All of my published books are fiction.
If you have enough lead time, you can order books directly from publishers and receive a 40% discount. Tell the customer service/promotions person that you are ordering books for a school author visit, and the date of the visit. Allow four to six weeks for delivery. You should be able to return unsold copies to the publisher.
Please keep in mind that books go out of stock or (worse) out of print rapidly these days--sometimes without my knowledge or even the knowledge of my editors. For that reason, all of the books listed below may or may not be available at the time that you order. However, these are the ones that I am fairly certain are still available:
To order Mommy Doesn't Know My Name (ISBN 0-395-77979-0, $5.95 paperback) call Houghton Mifflin at 1-800-225-3362.
Library Lil (ISBN 0-8037-1698-2, $14.99 hardback; ISBN 0-14-056837-9, $6.99 paperback), call Penguin/Putnam at 1-800-526-0275 and ask for the Author Appearance Desk.
Ten Naughty Little Monkeys (
ISBN 978-0-06-059904-1 Trade
$16.99; ISBN 978-0-06-059905-8
PLB $17.89.) Call HarperCollins
customer service at 1-800-242-7737.
The Marvelous Mind of Matthew McGhee, Age 8: Book #2: Human or Alien? (ISBN 0-689-86337-3, $3.99), call Lori Mocknick at Aladdin/Simon & Schuster customer service: 856-824-2067.
To order titles from the Princess Power or Fairy Blossoms series (both from HarperCollins) call customer service at 1-800-242-7737. The Princess Power series includes Book #1: The Perfectly Proper Prince (ISBN 0-06-078298, $4.99 paperback); Book #2: The Charmingly Clever Cousin (ISBN:0-06-078300-1, $4.99 paperback.); Book #3: The Awfully Angry Ogre (ISBN: 0-06-078302-8, $4.99 paperback); Book #4: The Mysterious, Mournful Maiden (ISBN: 0-06-078304-4, $4.99 paperback); Book #5: The Stubbornly Secretive Servant (ISBN: 978-0-060-078306-8, $4.99 paperback); Book #6: The Gigantic, Genuine Genie (ISBN: 978-0-06-078308-2, $4.99 paperback). The first three books of the Fairy Blossoms series will be available May 1, 2008: Book #1: Daisy and the Magic Lesson (ISBN: 978-0-06-113938-3, $4.99 paperback); Book #2: Poppy and the Vanishing Fairy (ISBN: 978-0-06-113940-6, $4.99 paperback); Book #3: Rose and the Delicious Secret (ISBN: 978-0-06-113939-0). Book #4: Marigold and the Missing Firefly (ISBN 978-0-06-113941-3) will be out September 1, 2008.
I usually have a few copies of my books on hand, including most of the out-of-print and out-of-stock ones. As a last resort, if you can't find a title you want, even on Amazon, email me. If I have copies, I'll let you know how many I can spare and the price per copy.
Old MacDonald in the City is out of print but I have lots of stock. I can bring copies to sell during school visits if desired. Just let me know. In any event, I will donate a copy to the school library of schools that I visit since I sometimes ask K-1 students to sing-along with this book in assemblies.