Working with a Bookstore Lee LaForge, manager of the Marquette Book World, will share how bookstores decide what books to carry, how you can work with bookstores to get your book in the inventory, ordering and payment policies, book signings, and why customers may choose your book over another, or…
Attention Authors, Artists… Illustrators included… As the co-manager of the Apple Blossom Gifts, Books & Collectibles Shop at the Iron County Historical Museum & a special events volunteer I had hoped to pass the word at the conference today about an upcoming event, here in the Iron River area…Caspian, Michigan….
Nature Writing Contest from North Country Publishing and Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore. Deadline June 6th 2014, win $250 and get published. Submit entries to North Country Publishing, P.O. box 13, Skandia, MI 49855 Contest guidelines are available at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore, the Marquette Arts and…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2014 Lon and Lynn Emerick North Country Publishing northco@up.net 906-942-7879 North Country Publishing of Skandia and the Falling Rock Café and Bookstore of Munising announce the Second Annual U.P. Nature Writing Contest. Following the success of the 2013 Contest, which saw entries from all over…
SAVE THE DATE! WEDS, APRIL 30th Everyone is welcome! This evening is for kids of all ages! You are invited to an appreciation celebration for “My Heart Smiles” awesome supporters and backers! This is also the official Marquette book release of my inspiring uplifting ABC book for the…
Details of the UPPAA’s Spring Meeting in Marquette, Michigan on May 17th, 2014 have just been released. Please register now so you are guaranteed a seat at the event! The schedule is still tentative but here is the working draft: 10:00 – 10:30 – registration 10:30 – 10:45 – opening remarks 10:45…
Gretchen Preston, author of Valley Cats, and her illustrator Karin Neumann appeared at Snowbound Books in Marquette, Michigan on February 15th 2014
Willpower is an original play written by Tyler Tichelaar, directed by Moire Embley, and produced by the Marquette Regional History Center. Performances will be September 18 and 19 at 7:00 p.m. at Kaufman Auditorium, Marquette, MI. But if you can’t wait that long, you are invited on Wednesday, February 26th to the Marquette Regional History…
April 12, 2014 The 27th Year of A Rally of Writers With 16 breakout sessions, Authors’ Alley, book sales, manuscript reviews, agent. Lunch available. Rally Warm-Up, April 11, Schuler’s Books and Music, Eastwood Towne Center: “Importance of Early Words.” Conference Center, West Campus, LCC Lansing MI Keynote: Fleda Brown “Madness…
Book Signing – Carrie Pearson Start: 03/01/2014 12:00 pm Book List A Cool Summer Tail (Hardcover) By Carrie A. Pearson, Christina Wald $17.95 ISBN-13: 9781628552058 Availability: Special Order – Subject to Availability Published: Sylvan Dell Publishing, 2/2014 Other Editions of this Title A Cool Summer Tail (Paperback) By Carrie A. Pearson, Christina Wald $9.95 ISBN-13: 9781628552140 Availability: Special Order – Subject…
Start: 02/15/2014 1:00 pm in Downtown Marquette Michigan 118 N 3rd St Marquette Township, MI 49855 We are thrilled to host the launch party of Gretchen’s newest Valley Cats adventure. Book List Valley of the Cats by Gretchen Preston More Valley Cats by Gretchen Preston Valley Cats by Gretchen Preston
This is a good feeling ABC book for the kid in all of us. It inspires self-esteem and confidence in a colorful, fun and playful way! Our Story: Wow, first of all, thank you for visiting our Kickstarter page! We have had the best time exploring new ways of sharing…
Two of our newest Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) members, Diana Oman and Colleen O’Hara are going to have a book preview party for their new book My Heart Smiles at the Joy Center in Ishpeming. Here’s Diana’s message: SAVE THE DATE!!!! Thursday, JANUARY 9TH! at the JOY…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4…
Those of you not in the U.P. may have missed all the recent media coverage about the new documentary, “Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913.” The film has already been shown at the Calumet Theatre and the Peter White Public Library and will be broadcast nationwide on PBS on December 17th. Here…
The 2013 TV6 Christmas Craft show is always a big hit with shoppers and a great place for UP Authors to sell their books. This year several UPPAA members participated. Tyler Tichelaar, President of UPPAA, sported the new UPPAA banner with the new logo at his booth where he sold…
Join UPPAA authors John Gubbins, Mike Carriere, Daniel Fountain, Matt Bell, Gretchen Preston, Tyler Tichelaar, and Carrie Pearson at the Snowbound Books Holiday Authors Booksigning on December 14th from 2 to 4pm We’re on N. Third Street, just off of W. Washington in downtown Marquette. Just go about halfway up the hill,…
Join UPPAA authors Tyler Tichelaar and Gretchen Preston at the TV6 Christmas Craft Show, which is held at the NMU Superior Dome in Marquette, Michigan Dec. 6, 7, 8, 2013 Friday 5pm – 9pm Saturday 10am – 6pm Sunday 11am – 4pm Admission for all TV6 Craft Shows is: $2.00 for Adults,…
Nature & Exploration A Poetry Reading at Marquette Regional History Center Wednesday, November 13 at 7 pm Join us for a free poetry reading by Russell Thorburn, inaugural Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and Kathleen Heideman. Russell Thorburn, inaugural Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, will read nature and…
The second annual Superior Children’s Book Festival was held in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, on Saturday, November 2nd, 2013. The events took place in the Walker J. Cisler Conference Center on the campus of Lake Superior State University, from 11am to 3pm. Several authors from the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association…
