Upper Peninsula Author’s Day & Book Fair When: Saturday, July 6, 2013 11 am. – 7 pm. Where: Westwood Mall, Marquette, Michigan Table Fee:$50 Join your colleagues to celebrate U.P. Authors Day at our book fair extravaganza! Email Tyler Tichelaar at tyler@marquettefiction.com for the application and registration details. This event will be…
Casting All Yoopers!!! A new casting project for a major cable network is looking to show the rest of the country how great the Upper Peninsula of Michigan really is! We are looking for multi-‐generational families in the area that own businesses or are just plain Upper Peninsula royalty in their own right. Ideal candidates would be passionate Upper Peninsula people who feel bad for the Canadians and Lower Michigan folk. These people should have fun, exciting and distinctive personality and Yooper life. Do you or someone you know… Have a fun group of family and friends Have a snowmobiling group Have a Pasty business Have a hunting group Have an Ice fishing group Have a family owned and operated business Have a dog sledding team Are members of the Polar Bear Diving Club Think that you and your family are the best Yoopers in town If so, please send us a photo of yourself, your contact information and a short description about why you are the best representative for the Yooper population to Danielle.Pisano@twofouramerica.com Please read the PDF links below for full disclosure! TWOFOUR USA ONE SHEET Yooper Casting notice
March 24, 2013 (Fayette, MI) Donna Winters, a resident of Fayette on the Garden Peninsula and the author of seventeen novels about the Great Lakes, was recently given a highly unusual honor by her hometown. The mayor of Brockport, New York, the Erie Canal village where Donna grew up and the primary…
North Country Publishing of Skandia and Falling Rock Cafe & Bookstore of Munising, announce the First Annual Nature Writing Contest. Entrants must be current permanent Upper Peninsula residents. Contest guidelines will be advertised in the April and May issues of the Marquette Monthly and in the Munising News on the first…
Copper Empire is a book of historical fiction written by Donna Searight Simons. Paul Weyburn and his fellow copper miners have tolerated dangerous working conditions for too long in Red Jacket, Michigan. Some of their workmates are being maimed or killed thousands of feet underground. . .which one of them…
Details of the UPPAA’s Spring Meeting in Marquette, Michigan on May 18th, 2013 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…
I’m involved in a project that I’m really excited about. My writing group, Cascade Writers Group (CWG), is publishing an anthology of literary works called “Imagine This!” for ArtPrize. The anthology will be published by Schuler Books and Chapbook Press, and will be available at ArtPrize venues and other stores in the area. It…
On Monday, March 4th a mild mannered, fiction writer will slip into a phone booth and emerge as Sammy Slug, protector of the downtrodden, champion of the oppressed, and exalter extraordinaire of the Amorous Spotted Slug. He will gird his loins (as well as the rest of his copious body)…
Deb Pascoe will be leading the Fearless Writing workshop Wednesdays, April 3rd – May 8th, 2013 from 7 to 9pm at the Marquette Arts and Culture Center. Deb will share tips and strategies for releasing your inner storyteller. Whether you are trying to write out your life history, poetry, or…
Read The Written Word, the official newsletter of UPPAA and a great source of information on book writing, marketing, publishing, and editing. UPPAA_WINTER_2013
In the spring of 2012 when I took on the task of compiling a new history for Finlandia University, I didn’t fully realize what I had gotten myself into. The monstrous task would keep me occupied more than full time for the entire summer and half of the fall. I…
Hi all you fellow writers. I am in need of one or two paragraph reports of Amorous Spotted Slug sightings for my web site. (These are similar to Elvis sightings.) I will reward each reporter with a complimentary copy of my novel and a free I ♥ My Slug T-shirt….
Amber Edmondson and Raja Howe are teaching a poetry class through the Marquette Arts and Culture Center. Tuesdays, February 12-March 19, 6-8p.m. City Residents $50, Non-city $55. This class will help develop your poetic skills in a safe, creative space. Write a poem each week with the aid of guiding prompts,…
The film is called “AMERICA’S ANCIENT INDUSTRY” Produced by Bob Kreipke, of Ford Motor Company Historian and with Janine McFadden. It is about UP Copper trade thousands of years ago. They traveled around the UP for their documentation. They came to my house with a camera crew to learn from…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,500 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have…
It’s been joyful, educational, frustrating and a way to meet so many interested and interesting authors/publishers. BUT, after 17 years of writing, publishing, printing/reprirnting, and marketing, Lon and Lynn Emerick DBA North Country Publishing are winding down the business as inventory is sold out. We will be on to other…
The 2012 Fall Meeting was October 13th 2012 at the Peter White Library in Marquette, Michigan, Pictured below is Jenifer Brady undergoing a mock interview with WNMU-FM Public Radio 90 host Nicole Walton. The only way to get better at anything is practice, practice practice and this opportunity allowed all…
2012 Fall Meeting —————— Saturday, October 13th, 2012 at the Peter White Public Library 217 North Front Street, Marquette —————— NOTE: Members Attend FREE. $10 each for non-members. $8 each for lunch. To Register: email to Membership Secretary Cheryl Corey (membership@uppaa.org) with your name AND the number of people attending…
Please Come To the Iron County Historical and Museum Society Special Event The 50th Anniversary Celebration Begins: Bernhardt Book Signing Preserving & Sharing Our Iron County Heritage Saturday, Oct 13, 2012 1 pm: Book signing by Harold & Marcia Bernhardt Approximately 2:15 pm: There will be a dramatic performance about organizing The very 1st Society meeting, which occurred…
New this year. Writing Workshops for all ages. Art workshops for kids. *2012 Arts and Authors Fair*, Friday Oct. 26 noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday, October 27 from ten a.m. to 3 p.m. Kettering University FOLA, Book signings featured. Silent auction. Fine arts and Crafts Show located in the Kettering University Campus…
