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…
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
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 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,…
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…
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The second annual Superior Children’s Book Festival will be held in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, on Saturday, November 2nd, 2013. The events will take 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…
U.P. resident writers serving as contest judges have selected the winners in the First Annual UP Nature Writing Contest, sponsored by North Country Publishing of Skandia and Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore of Munising. Entries were received from residents across the peninsula. Andrea Chynoweth of Munising is the contest…
Two popular U.P. Authors were part of this year’s Art on the Lake event at the Erickson Center in Curtis on Saturday, September 1. Gretchen Preston, author of the endearing Valley Cats series of children’s books, and Tyler R. Tichelaar, Upper Michigan’s most prolific historical novelist, attended Art on the…
Steve Hamilton will be signing Let it Burn on August 6th, 5-7pm Bonnie Jo Campbell will be signing Once Upon A River on August 8th, 6-8pm Also American Salvage and Q Road Joe Heywood will be signing Killing A Cold One: A Woods Cop Mystery on September 21st, 1-3pm …
Book Signing “Death at the Lighthouse-A Grand Island Riddle” by Loren Graham ~ JUST RELEASED ~ Call 387 3008 to reserve your copy now Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12-2 p.m. AND Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Attend one or both events! Readings by Loren! Meet the publisher, Susan Bays of Arbutus Press…
Outback Art Fair is in Marquette, Michigan on July 27-28, 2013 at Picnic Rocks. Authors present will be Tyler Tichelaar, Gretchen Preston, Debbie Frontiera, and John Parlin. More than 100 booths were setup at last year’s fair, which features art, food, and live entertainment, according to this Mining Journal article….
Join Ron Riekki, editor of The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, and contributors from the collection for a summer book tour! From Brighton to Houghton and all points in between, catch Michigan poets and fiction writers reading along with Riekki at a variety of locations during July and August 2013. Check…
The Van Riper State Park in Champion on Lake Michigamme is having its fourth annual Art and Moosic fest on August 17th. Several UPPAA members including Tyler Tichelaar, Gretchen Preston, Deborah Frontiera, Donna and Fred Winters, and Tom Cappuccio will be showing their work at booths onsite. The crafters section is open 11am-7pm….
