John Coy: Author 2011
John Coy is an American children's book author who is best known for his books on basketball,Strong to the Hoop, Around the World, and Box Out, as well as Night Driving and his coming-of-age novel about sports and decisions,Crackback. Coy presented a two day residency program in thw Young Adult Writer Author Expo.
Event Dates, Locations and Attendance at each individual event:
3/16/2011
- School presentations at Fosston High School - 129
- Author Presentation at the McIntosh Library - 11
3/17/2011
- School presentations at Mahnomen Secondary School - 62
- Author Presentation at the Mahnomen Library - 12
214 people attended the presentations
Partner Organization(s): Northwest Regional Library
Partner Organization(s) Contribution/Role in the Program: Northwest Regional Library also hosted performances by John Coy. The performances were scheduled so the activities could take places in both regions during the same time period.
Measurable Outcomes may be collected by survey, anecdotal responses, pre-test/post-test, observations; Describe proposed end user change in Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Condition and/or Status.
- Reluctant Readers will be re-engaged.
- Participants will learn about the writing business.
- Participants will learn about writing.
- Participants will meet successful writers.
Please rate the quality of this program: (Using 1-5 scale, with 5 being excellent and 1 being poor)
- Not rated - (0), 1- (1), 2 ~ (3), 3 - (25), 4 - (40), 5 - (29), Average (3.93)
What did you like best about the program?
- Box out
- Hearing about all the work it takes; publishing it (26)
- The book (8)
- Crackback (2)
- The facts
- When he talked about money (11)
- The Pride assignment
- How he started writing
- His sports books (3)
- When he shared his rough drafts of the book
- Class interaction
- Guessing games (2)
- The facts about authors
- He was funny
- Getting to know more about how to be an author (2)
- I liked how he got everyone to interact (3)
- His ability to connect with people of all ages
- Mr. Coy telling us about how many times he got turned down
- Everything
- Very informative!!! (6)
- Hearing John's story of writing
- Getting useful information (2)
- Advice on writing and publishers
- The honesty
- Informal - high level of expertise
- Ease in conversation & asking questions (2)
- The personal group/talking/advice
What did you expect to experience or learn from this presentation? Were your expectations met?
- Yes (50)
- To learn what writing a book was about (40)
- Just to hear about his book (2)
- About John Coy
- Money wise (2)
- What kind of book people write
- To learn about the author (4)
- I thought it was going to be boring but it wasn't
- That the author only gets 80c per book (2)
- He was informative and entertaining
- How to become an author and its limits
- Learn more about books
- Anyone can write book
- Advice for finding problems
- Real answers to real writing questions
- Just looking for a boost & clues to get started on the ideas I have
What other programs would you like to see offered at the library?
- Other authors (17), author assistants, author apprentices
- Gaming club
- A game tester/maker
- Gary Paulsen
- Field trips
- Anthony Horowitz
- Magician (2), music
- Stephen King
- Writing programs
- Movie night (14), games
- Speakers (5)
- Art programs (2)
- An artist
- An illustration program (2)
- An explorer
- A presentation on how to make apple pie
- More presentations on books
- Military history expert
- Comic book authors (3)
- Cooking
- Publishers sharing what they want to see
- Food
- Book characters visit the library
- Sky-diving class
- I would like to see movies that are based on popular books
- Tamara Pierce
- John again
- Writing memoirs - family histories
Prior to this program, have you ever attended a program at the library or sponsored by the library? Yes (42) No (53)How did you hear about the program?Program flier - 8Information/poster at the library - 13Information/poster in the community - 3Library newsletter - 3Library web site - 2Newspaper/magazine - 8Radio - 3Television - 1From library staff - 12From another person - 72 Check your age range: Birth to 5 (0), 6-17 (84), 18-54 (8), 55 and over (6) What is your zip code? 56542(65) - 56646 (3) - 56651(5) - 55621 (5) - 56684 (3) - 56634 (1) -56547 (1) - 56516 (1) 56652 (1) - 56582(1) - 56569 (1) - 56557 (2) - 56556 (2) - 55121(1) - 56535(2) - 56644 (2) Do you have a current library card? Yes - 71 No - 24 NA - 2# of evaluations received: 98