Dear UPPAA Member, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you what an exciting debut issue of U.P. Reader we had as well as remind you of two very important details: Submission deadline is December 21st, 2017. Please send us your original unpublished fiction, poems, personal anecdotes, and…
JUDGES NEEDED FOR NEW STUDENT CONTEST Any UPPAA member who is willing to help as a judge for the upcoming student writing contest should contact Larry Buege: LSBuege@aol.com. Judges will read through about 10 stories written by high school students and score them on a number of items. A scoring sheet will be provided. We should…
More Than You Think You Know, a women’s road (river) trip novel by Cyndi Perkins, has been released by Beating Windward Press. The story of ships and friendships, set in fall 2006, follows Hailey, Robin and Trish, three women piloting the 44-foot luxury trawler Blackout through the Heartland Rivers from…
For Immediate Release Local Author Tyler Tichelaar Releases New Book about Haunted Marquette Sep 5th, 2017—Local author Tyler Tichelaar will be giving his readers a treat this Halloween season. On Wednesday, October 11 at 6:00 p.m. at the Marquette Regional History Center he will be releasing his newest book, Haunted…
Wed., October 11. Tyler Tichelaar will be releasing his new book Haunted Marquette. He will tell ghost stories from the book and a book signing will follow. 6:00 p.m. Marquette Regional History Center, Marquette, MI. Wed. October 11, 2017 – Presentation 6:00 p.m. – Book signing 7:00 p.m. Haunted Marquette: Ghost Stories from the Queen City Founded…
The UPPAA Summer 2017 Newsletter is now available for reading Inside this issue you’ll find Report on UPPAA 2017 Spring Conference Minutes of the 2017 UPPAA Annual Business Meeting Member news Call for submissions for the 2nd issue of U.P. Reader (deadline November 2017) Top 10 Tips for closing a sale…
Outback Art Fair is in Marquette, Michigan on the weekend of July 29-30, 2017 at Picnic Rocks. UPPAA authors Tyler Tichelaar, Deborah Frontiera, Gretchen Preston, and Larry Buege will be signing books at the Outback Art Fair, Picnic Rocks/Shiras Park, Marquette, Michigan. More than 100 booths were setup at last year’s…
UPPAA Spring 2017 Meeting Saturday, May 20, 2017 Conference Schedule 10:00 – 10:30 – Registration 10:30 – 10:45 – Welcome and Opening remarks 10:45 – 11:45 – Keynote: The Art of Asking – Sue Harrison (Community Room) 11:45 – 12:45 Two tracks to choose from: (A) Traditional Publishing –…
The UPPAA Winter 2017 Member Newsletter is here
The deadline for submitting to this year’s inaugural edition of the U.P. Reader has come and gone and we received some incredible submissions from our writers. But, we would like to get a few more to round out what is shaping up to be an amazing first issue. So, we…
The UPPAA quarterly newsletter, The Written Word, is sent to all members by mail. Get the UPPAA Fall 2016 Newsletter here!
September 30, 2016 For Immediate Release: Margaret Boyle Programming Coordinator Peter White Public Library 217 N. Front St. Marquette, MI 49855 906.226.4318 mboyle@uproc.lib.mi.us U.P. Author Day Event at PWPL Saturday, October 8, 2016 from 10:30 am-3:30 pm Peter White Public Library, lower level 217 N. Front St., Marquette, MI 49855…
Hello Everyone, You are invited to participate in UP Author Day at Peter White Public Library in Marquette, MI from 10:30-3:30 on Saturday, October 8, which is being held this year in conjunction with the first annual Indie Author Day nationwide. We have table space available for the book fair,…
On Sep. 12, 2016, at the Portage Lake District Library in Houghton MI, three UPPAA authors will take part in a panel discussion on writing about different ethnic groups. Deborah K. Frontiera, Cyndi Perkins and Larry Buege (and hopefully Larry Lankton) will discuss with the public how they researched and…
Hi Everyone, The Forsyth Township Library in Gwinn has invited UPPAA members to tea. This annual tea party is a fundraising for the library. The event is Saturday, October 8th from 1 pm to 2:30.PM. The library is seeking 4 or 5 authors from different genres to give a short…
Novels The Seamus McCree Series consists of three published novels (Ant Farm, Bad Policy and Cabin Fever, a the fourth, Doubtful Relations) . Future novels in the series include Empty Promises (2017) and False Bottom (2018). PUBLISHED TODAY 8/23/16 What will Seamus do this time? Financial crimes investigator Seamus McCree has…
U.P. Author Fair – Escanaba Public Library – Thursday, August 18th from 5:00-7:30 pm. Fifteen authors from across Upper Michigan will be present to meet and chat with their readers and to sell and autograph their books. Complimentary refreshments will also be provided. Authors attending will include: Eleanor Benedict Kenneth…
As you might or might not know, the NMU bookstore was recently acquired by the Barnes & Noble chain. As such, a complete changeout of inventory was made, leaving some local authors in doubt of whether they could be stocked (again). Tyler writes: I have followed up with the NMU…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) presents a new publication called the U.P. Reader. This will be an annual anthology that will feature the collected works of the best of the authors of the Upper Peninsula. “The U.P. Reader is something I hope will put…
Bob Wenc writes I’m looking to find find UP authors who write about the area’s ethnic heritage to be part of a panel discussion during the week prior to the Parade of Nations Sept. 17 date. This would fit into the “Passport to the World” theme of the 27th Annual Parade…
