Deseret Book Authors & Artists

Email: jennyo@jennyoaksbaker.com

Fees:
LDS Groups: Travel Expenses
Non-LDS Groups: Travel Expenses + additional fees determined by the size of audience

Preferred Audience Size: Large Groups

Speaking Topics:
- Music
- Motherhood
- Building your Testimony

Email: conlonbonner@gmail.com

Fees: $500-$1,000

Preferred Audience Size: 50-200 people

Speaking Topics:
- Forgiveness
- Women of God
- Strengthened by the Atonement of Jesus Christ
- Building Faith on the Foundation of Christ
- Pathway Toward Eternal Life
- Youth in the Latter Days

Email: harry@singpeoplesing.com

Fees: Negotiable

Preferred Audience Size: 12 - 5,000 people

Speaking Topics:
- Overcoming Challenges,
- Parenting
- Eternal Marriage
- Hearing the Lord
- Doing the Lord's Will

Email: maulib@gmail.com

Fees: $1,000+

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Hearing the Lord's Voice
- Being a Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Today's World
- Strengthening Our Faith
- Speaking to the Youth

Email: john@johnbytheway.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Wards or Larger

Speaking Topics:
- The Book of Mormon
- Chastity
- Dating
- Divine Nature
- Husband and Wife Relationships
- Jesus Christ (Atonement),
- Marriage
- Missionary work
- Morality
- Newlyweds
- Overcoming Adversity
- Prayer
- Priesthood
- Repentance
- Sacrament
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Improvement
- The Savior/His Teachings
- Youth Standard
- Modern Media

Note: Requires 8-10 months notice

Email: ally@allycondie.com

Fees: Pricing Available Upon Request

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Writing
- Reading
- Creativity
- Writing the Story of your Life

Email: laurel.christensen@gmail.com

Fees: No charge for Church Functions

Preferred Audience Size: Preferably multiple wards or stakes, but happy to discuss.

Speaking Topics:
- Divine Identity
- Personal Missions
- Personal Revelation/Prayer
- Patience & Waiting

Email: mee.maryellen@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any size

Speaking Topics: Any

Note: Due to age, she is unable to accept very many speaking invitations at this time

Email: terryl.givens@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Depends on travel distance

Speaking Topics:
- Mormon Theology
- Church History
- Faith Challenges

Email: tyler_griffin@byu.edu

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Wards or larger

Speaking Topics:
- Virtual/Digital Tours of the New Testament and Book of Mormon Stories
- The Infinite & Intimate Atonement of Jesus Christ
- The Great Plan of Happiness
- Finding New Relevance and Excitement in the Scriptures
- Answering Difficult Questions
- Lessons from the Writings of CS Lewis
- Likening the Scriptures to our own Story Today

Email: matthew.godfrey@ldschurch.org

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Joseph Smith Papers
- Joseph Smith
- Church History during Joseph Smith’s Lifetime
- Joseph Smith as a Husband and Father
- Joseph Smith as a Leader
- Ordinary Church Members in the Early Church
- The Doctrine and Covenants

Email: stevencraigharper@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- The First Vision
- Joseph Smith
- The Book of Mormon
- Early Church History

Email: johnhiltoniii@byu.edu

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Stakes or larger

Speaking Topics:
- Any topic for Youth, YSA, or Adults - Teaching
- Scripture Study
- The Book of Mormon

Email: deanhugh@gmail.com

Fees: None

Preferred Audience Size: Stakes

Speaking Topics:
- Church History (Especially Nauvoo and the Mormon Battalion)
- Dealing with Doubt
- Using Self Talk for Self Improvement.

Note: Requires 6 months notice

Email: jclaysonjohnson@verizon.net

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Stakes or larger

Speaking Topics:
- Attitudes
- Challenges
- Choices
- Communication
- Courage
- Faith
- Gratitude
- Being Faithful
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Improvement
- Women’s Issues

Email: pqmason@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Depends on distance

Speaking Topics:
- Restoration Theology
- Latter-day Saint History
- Faith Crisis
- Prophets & Peace

Email: mercyriver1@gmail.com

Fees: Pricing Available Upon Request

Preferred Audience Size: Stakes are preferred for LDS functions, however all LDS and non-LDS requests are considered

Speaking Topics:
- Great and Spacious Makeup Kit (Inner Beauty)
- Girls Camp Survival Kit (Camp Items used as Metaphors of Gospel Principles)
- Spiritual Spa (Showcases "Spa Treatments" for our Spirits),
- Painting Tips (Tips to Create a Beautiful Masterpiece of our Lives through Choices)
- Youth Standards Night
- Mothering
- Marriage
- Joy in the Journey
- Music
- Living Authentically

Email: adamscottmiller@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Negotiable

Speaking Topics:
- Faith
- Grace
- Doubt
- Time
- Atonement
- Scripture Study
- Theology
- Philosophy

Email: robertmillet5@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- "Real Growth": The Path of Deep Conversion
- Foundation Stones of the Atonement
- Living in the Eleventh Hour: Preparing for the Savior's Second Coming
- Life Beyond the Grave: Latter-day Saint Perspectives
- Coming to Know Christ

Email: kerry_muhlestein@byu.edu

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- The Book of Isaiah
- The Book of Abraham

Email: aolsen58@gmail.com

Fees: None

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Handcart pioneers

Note: Limited to the Salt Lake City area

Email: donald_parry@byu.edu

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Wards, stakes or larger

Speaking Topics:
- Symbols and Shadows: Unlocking Our Understanding of the Atonement
- LDS Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Temples of the Ancient World: Symbolism and Ritual
- Understanding Isaiah
- Understanding the Book of Revelation
- Understanding the Signs of the Times
- The Significance of the Spirit World
- Death and the Resurrection: Gifts from a Loving Heavenly Father
- The Importance of the Old Testament for Our Day
- The Jesus Christ Centered Scriptures and Ordinances
- Jesus Christ's Magnificent and Limitless Atonement
- Angels: Agents of Love and Light

Email: caleereed@gmail.com

Charge: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Enduring Trials
- Power of Good Music
- YSA Topics

Note: Willing to sing as part of the presentation if sound equipment is available.

Email: jreeder@churchofjesuschrist.org

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Latter-day Saint Women's History
- Church History on the Gospel Library app
- D&C 25
- Emma Smith
- Eliza R. Snow
- Relief Society
- Temple Service
- Atonement
- Faith
- Personal Revelation
- Personal Missions
- Material Culture (Quilts, Relief Society Halls, etc.)

Email: michelle@jonschmidt.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Wards or larger

Speaking Topics:
- Trust in the Lord
- Raising a Family unto the Lord
- The Power of a Righteous Woman

Email: suzanne@pikespeakentertainment.com

Fees:
LDS Groups: Travel Expenses
Non-LDS Groups: Travel Expenses + fee determined by size of audience

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Atonement
- Embracing your True Self
- Look of Silver Linings
- Mercy vs. Justice
- Missionary Work
- Motivational Messages
- Overcoming Trials
- Parenting
- Prayer
- Priesthood
- Relationships
- Young Women Topics
- Youth Themes

Email: ericsmith1971@hotmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Joseph Smith Papers Project
- Insights into Joseph Smith’s History, Character, and Teachings

Email: anthony_sweat@hotmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- Any Topic for Youth or YSA
- Teaching
- Scripture Study
- Temple Preparation
- Church History
- Seeking Answers to Difficult Questions

Email: hswinton@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- President Thomas S. Monson
- Prophets
- Joseph Smith
- Women Today
- Personal Challenges

Email: bltop@byu.edu

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Prefers larger groups if traveling

Speaking Topics:
- Standard Works
- Parenting
- Helping our Youth

Email: wulrich@rbl.net

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: 100+

Speaking Topics:
- Forgiveness
- Self-forgiveness
- Depression
- Loss and Indefinite Loss
- Relationships
- Women's Issues
- Parenting
- Happiness
- Spirituality
- Young Single Adult Transitions
- Self-acceptance

Email: emilybennettwatts@gmail.com

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Stakes or larger

Speaking Topics:
- Self-worth
- Coping with Stress
- Avoiding Perfectionism
- Understanding the Lord’s Love for Them
- Finding Delight in Motherhood
- Relationships

Email: brad_wilcox@byu.edu

Fees: Travel Expenses

Preferred Audience Size: Any

Speaking Topics:
- The Atonement
- Standards
- Testimony and Mission Prep
- Literacy to Teachers and Children

Note: Requires 12-months notice