UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 8th event is with U.P. author Susan Purvis who will present her award-winning memoir Go Find: My…
Lorraine Ash asked me to participate in her weekend-long seminar, my piece was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask”. If you watch, you’ll get 15 minutes presentation followed by 45 minutes of Q&A Victor R. Volkman has published more than 250 books as…
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 6th event is with U.P. author Ann Dallman whose award-winning Cady and the Bear Necklace has the…
Read Books—Zoom with Authors—Get Educated and Entranced by Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula Do you love to read? Do you love the raw, untamed, beautiful U.P? Are you longing to engage with intelligent people such as yourself in meaningful discussions? Then here is just the thing for you—Join the U.P. Notable…
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 5th event is with U.P. author Michael Carrier whose Jack Handler thriller series has the brought modern…
U.P. Reader — Volume #5: Bringing Upper Michigan Literature to the World Mikel Classen and Deborah K Frontiera Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com 9781615995714, $17.95 paperback, $28.95 hardcover, 308 pages B09253976L, $5.95 Kindle The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is also known as Upper Michigan or the UP, with people native to…
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler’s days to the far-flung future. Since 2017, the U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the U.P.’s natural beauty and way…
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The 5th event is with U.P. author Michael Carrier whose Jack Handler thriller series has the brought modern…
U.P. Reader Volume #5 includes Best Stories from U.P. Writers of All Ages (MARQUETTE, MI, April 12, 2021) The Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) presents the fifth installment of the U.P. Reader. This latest and biggest-ever edition of the annual anthology will feature the collected works of thirty-two…
Comprehensive Index of U.P. Reader Volumes 1 through 5 Agbozo, Edzordzi “Final Welcome”, v1, p. 54 “Rewinding”, v1, p. 54 Ambuehl, Kaitlin “Free”, v3, pp. 67-69 Argeropoulos, John “Tales from the Busy Bee Café”, v2, pp. 5-8 Arten, Lee “Iced”, v1, p. 40 Askwith, Leslie “Geology Geek Finds God, A”,…
Be sure to catch each review as they are released by going to www.UPBookReview.com and click on the “Subscribe” button on the right-hand pane. New reviews of UP books are released every 10 days. Poison Into Medicine: My Life in a Doomsday Cult by Brandon W. Salo — 4/1/2021 Virgil…
UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable Book List. The fourth event is with U.P. author and NMU professor James H. McCommons featuring Camera Hunter, the first…
Join us for Proofreading and Editing for Authors with Brandy Thomas on March 18th, 2021 on Zoom Welcome back to the ongoing 2021 UPPAA Virtual Conference series! If you missed any of our cool lineup of speakers, we suggest you go to the conference archive page. Next week we are…
UP Notable Book Club presents a virtual Q&A with U.P. author John Smolens, author of the Del Maki crime novels UP Notable Book Club: the Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled author events with winners of the UP Notable…
For Immediate Release… Contact: Victor Volkman (734) 417-4266 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces 4th Annual Dandelion Cottage Award Winners U.P. Student Writers to be Honored for Best Short Story MARQUETTE, MI (March 8, 2021)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) is extremely pleased to announce…
We have a change to our calendar of the UP Notable Books Club. For April we will now be discussing “Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography,” with James H. McCommons. Then in June, we will be discussing “Cady and the Bear Necklace,” by Ann Dallman….
Phil Bellfy (Enrolled Member of the White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa) is a professor emeritus of American Indian studies at Michigan State University. He is also the author of Indians and Other Misnomers: A Cross-Reference Dictionary of the People, Persons, and Places of Native North America. You’ll be joined…
The U.P. Reader is proud to announce new audiobook editions of the U.P. Reader for 2021. Gwinn’s own Brandy Thomas will be narrating all five editions of the U.P. Reader for Audible.com, Apple iTunes, and Amazon audiobook platforms. These volumes are perfect for keeping you alert and on the road…
For Immediate Release… Contact: Victor Volkman (734) 417-4266 President@UPPAA.org www.UPPAA.org U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Announces 2nd Annual U.P. Notable Books List Books by U.P. authors and about the U.P. to be honored MARQUETTE, MI (January 25, 2021)— the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) announces the 2nd Annual…
Join the UP Notable Book Club – it’s free to everyone! UP Notable Book Club: Evelyn Gathu, Director of the Crystal Falls Community District Library has scheduled author events with these winners of the 1st UP Notable Book List. The first event is with Karen Dionne featuring the international bestseller…
