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Can't get J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter to make a school visit? Get the guy who came in #2 to Harry Potter for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award, the world's top prize for young readers' dark fiction. (He also won it in 2004, beating Dean Koontz and tying Clive Barker.) Steve is a popular school author visitor for grades 4-12. A typical day might include several read-aloud sessions of his scary stories (with question and answer) to mixed assemblies or gatherings of a certain grade level, teaching writing to enrichment groups, and an after-school teacher in-service where he teaches teachers to teach writing. Students can pre-order autographed books, too.