Resources for Authors and Publishers
Authors and publishers who wish to reach YALSA's members and audience can take advantage of the resources listed on this page.
Authors and publishers interested in reaching YALSA's members who serve teens through school and public libraries can use the resources listed on this page.
Advertising
- Work with your publisher to purchase an ad in YALSA's award winning quarterly journal, Young Adult Library Services, our weekly eNews, and/or on our web site. With a single ad you can directly reach over 5,000 school and public library staff who work with teens. Bill Spilman is YALSA’s ad rep and can be reached at 1-877-878-3260. Find out more about YALS at the YALS website.
- For complete advertising details download our media kit
- Work with your publisher to rent member mailing lists from the American Library Association (ALA), YALSA’s parent organization. Contact yalsa@ala.org.
Awards & Selected Lists
- Please be aware that, as a practice, YALSA does not promote individual titles on its web site, on its discussion lists, at conferences, etc. The only books or media our association promotes are the ones that receive our six literary awards and/or appear on our four annual selected lists.
- Publishers may send items to the persons who chair YALSA’s award committees and request that they consider it for nomination for an award, but please be aware that each committee receives hundreds of books each year. You can learn more about the lists and awards at: www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists
- Contact information for all the award committee chairs and selected list team leads is available from YALSA’s web site.
- Please direct questions about YALSA’s awards and selected lists to yalsa@ala.org.
Book & Media Reviews
- YALSA does not publish reviews of young adult books. Send copies of your book to ALA's Booklist magazine and ask them to consider reviewing it.
Conferences & Symposia
- Submit a program proposal for an official YALSA program at an ALA Annual Conference. Please know that programs that focus on a single product, book or author will not be accepted. They’re due each year in July and can be completed via an online survey posted each spring on YALSA's Events page.
Free Online Resources
- Follow YALSA on Facebook, www.facebook.com/yalsa
- Read The Hub, YALSA’s blog about library collections for young adults, at www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/
- To find out how to promote your book via means other than an ad, check out this compilation of links to find web sites that list authors in order for schools and libraries to contact them: http://del.icio.us/alalibrary/authorvisits
Promoting Your Award Winner or Selection
- If your title was honored by a YALSA award or by inclusion on a final selection list, publishers and authors are welcome to include mention of that online, in marketing materials, etc. For recommended language, please contact yalsa@ala.org.
- If your title is a current nomination for a list, publishers and authors are welcome to include mention of that online, in marketing materials, etc. For recommended language, please contact yalsa@ala.org.
- Through ALA, publishers may purchase award seals in bulk quantities, as well as license the digital image of the seal for use on paperbacks and e-books. Visit www.ala.org/awardsgrants/seals for complete information.
- Since all award committee deliberations are completely closed and confidential, publishers and authors will not know or be informed if a title is under consideration or "nominated" for any of YALSA's six awards. Therefore, it is absolutely not permissible to state that a title has been nominated for a YALSA award.
