FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: June 23, 2024 CONTACT: Kristy Beyer, Program Director Hessel School House 906-484-1333 office 231-330-4389 cell director@hesselschoolhouse.net Writers Symposium at Hessel School House Inspires and Educates Local Literary Community (Hessel, MI) This past Saturday, June 22, the Hessel School House was abuzz with creativity and enthusiasm as…
Saturday June 10th, 2023 at the Peter White Library 217 N. Front Street, Marquette Conference Schedule is now posted! Always FREE for members, please click here to register now! Hurry, registration ends June 1st, 2023 Keynote Speaker: Marty Achatz, U.P. Poet Laureate and Bigfoot tracker
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…
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…
Carolyn Howard-Johnson: New Book or Old: Great Launch Techniques Are Dependable Career Boosters Inspiration for Procrastinators: My Never-Too-Late Story: In this confidence-building opening address, Carolyn Howard-Johnson shares her story and tons of tips learned from launching her own sixteen books in several genres, many of them multi award winners and…
Join us online for the Fall Fiction Writing Workshop in October. You will review key concepts, engage in writing exercises, and receive peer feedback along with a professional critique of your writing. This new workshop comprises two, four-hour days of online learning actively engaging you with other writers for an…
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,…
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…
Notes for IRS Recordkeeping 101 By Deborah K. Frontiera How many cookies can you “snitch” from the cookie jar before somebody notices? It’s tricky knowing how much you can deduct for your writing business without sending “red flags” to the IRS. Deborah K. Frontiera’s daughter, a CPA and her “tax…
U.P. Publishers & Authors Association Holds 19th Annual Conference: Publishing & Book Marketing Industry to Be Explored MARQUETTE, MI (May 15, 2016) – In its constant commitment to informing regional authors and publishers of the latest changes in the publishing world and offering effective marketing and writing strategies, the Upper Peninsula…
Self-publishing can be a great way to bring your book to market. Done right it can generate a modest profit (sometimes even before you publish). Done wrong it can be one big money pit. Learn some easy to implement ways to get your book to pay for itself. Presented by…
Notes from Tyler R. Tichelaar‘s presentation at the Novelists Panel from the UPPAA 2014 Spring Conference Plot and Character are equally tied together in creating a great novel. Neither one is superior to the other, while the Point of View, although perhaps not quite as important, is integral to both…
