Victor R. Volkman: Audiobook Adventures—New Media and Sales Channels for All Authors! In this session, we’ll take you from understanding the growth possibilities of the audiobook marketplace to the nuts-and-bolts of finding and hiring a narrator, preparing your manuscript for narration, quality assurance, distribution, and marketing of audiobooks. Bringing your…
From Charli Mills’s discussion on platform during the Marketing Panel: We refer to social media as platforms – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. And yes, while these are platforms, they differ from what is an author platform. This is your visibility across social media, within the industry or genre of your writing,…
Shawn Andary, the Director of the Superiorland Library Cooperative is putting together a fundraiser for UP libraries. It does not have a name yet, but it will be an evening similar to Spotlight on the Arts where there will be a performance at Kaufman Auditorium in Marquette that includes music, dance,…
Aimée Bissonette asked us to make this available to attendees of “Publishing 101” at the UPPAA Spring Conference. PDF Version of her presentation slides. Indie Publishing Road Map – Resource List Library Information/Metadata: BISAC Code information: https://bisg.org/page/bisacedition and https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/bisac-subject-codes CIP Data/Preassigned Control Number Program information: https://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/ ISBN’s: http://www.bowker.com/ Finding Freelance…
UPPAA 2019 Conference Business Meeting 1:30-2:15 p.m., Saturday, June 1, 2019 The following items of business will be discussed at the meeting: • Changes to the UPPAA by-laws • Board meeting times and participation • Election of new Board • Vote on raising membership fees • Dandelion Cottage Short Story…
The second place award for this year’s Dandelion Cottage Short Story Award went to Lucy Woods, a junior from Copper Country Christian School, for her story “Stellae.” This is the second time this contest has been awarded by the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA). Winners of first, second,…
A visit with U.P. outdoors writer and photographer, Richard P. Smith. A section of the North Country Trail. Canyon Falls
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Mikel B. Classen (in the Soo) Phone: 906-440-5772 Email: classenmikel@gmail.com U.P. Reader Issue #3 includes Best Stories from U.P. Writers of All Ages (MARQUETTE, MI, April 5, 2019) The Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association…
Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association For Immediate Release… Contact: Tyler Tichelaar (906) 226-1543 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces Winners of Second Dandelion Cottage Short Story Contest MARQUETTE, MI (March 15, 2019)—The U.P. Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) has announced the winners of its second Dandelion Cottage…
