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Are you interested in having authors at your book group meetings? Please check all that apply.

Survey expired 05/10/17
Total voters: 183

Are you interested in having authors at your book group meetings? Please check all that apply.

 53% (97 votes)We’ve had authors attend our meetings.
 33% (60 votes)Yes, we've had an author call in.
 21% (39 votes)Yes, we've Skyped with authors.
 10% (19 votes)No, but we have attended author talks and signings as a book group and used the experience to shape our discussions.
 3% (5 votes)No, but we've emailed our questions to authors and used their responses during our discussion.
 9% (17 votes)No, but we would like to Skype or speak by phone with authors during a meeting.
 15% (28 votes)No, but we would like to have authors attend our meetings.
 7% (13 votes)No, because the location of our meetings does not permit us to host, call or Skype with an author.
 14% (25 votes)No, because we do not know how to go about inviting an author to participate in our meetings.
 7% (12 votes)Other (Please specify):
  • New Library Director doesn't invite them like previous one.
  • Author Leila Meacham is here in San Antonio and knows this group (she helped start our group in 1999) so she comes to visit.
  • Always open for it and would pair up with another group in the area.
  • We've also attended author talks, some as a group.
  • Not interested in authors attending our meetings.
  • We're a small group of 9 and meetings are held in our homes. We have attended book discuss at the Fitzgerald theatre in StPaul
  • No because we meet on-line.
  • We've had authors attend in the past and aren't interested in doing it again.
  • We've had authors attend our meetings twice, but we've also gone as a group to author talks/signings
  • We've also attended author talks and signings as a book group.
  • We've attended author talks and signings, and emailed authors with questions.
  • We have attended group Author visits at other locations