The UPPAA Board works hard to bring you local heroes as well as nationally-known writers and experts on the publishing industry. Here’s a look back at some of our previous guests.
| Year | Speaker | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Patrick Snow | |
| 2008 | Jerry Simmons | |
| 2009 | Dan Poynter (1938 – 2015) |
Self-publishing guru and founder of Ten Speed Press Author of The Self-Publishing Manual |
| 2010 | none | |
| 2011 | Irene Watson (1946 – 2012) |
(How to) Identify Your Audience for Success. Creator of ReaderViews review and award program |
| 2012 | Ellen Airgood | My journey from writer to published author with one of the biggest book publishers in the business |
| 2013 | Victor Volkman | Ebooks beyond Amazon Book distribution |
| 2014-2015 | none | |
| 2016 | Judith Briles | Creating Confidence as a Writer and Author Avoid the 7 Deadly Sins Authors Commit in Book Publishing Today If Publishing Is in Your Midst…What Option Is for You and Your Book |
| 2017 | Sue Harrison | The Art of Asking: Approaching Agents and Publishers |
| 2018 | Steve Lehto | From Un-agented Queries to a Dozen Books with Five Different Publishers |
| 2019 | Karen Dionne | What I Learned from Writing My Breakout Book author of The Marsh King’s Daughter and The Wicked Sister |
| 2020 | Carolyn Howard-Jones | Inspiration For Procrastinators (on book marketing) |
| 2021 | none | |
| 2022 | Linda LeGarde Grover | Reflections on Writing from History and Heart: Inde’ Ozhibii’ige Dibaajimowin |
| 2023 | Marty Achatz | U.P. Poet Laureate, author of A Bigfoot Bestiary |
| 2024 | Brian Bosley | Podcaster and success coach. |
| 2025 | Michael Carrier | Author of the Jack Handler murder mysteries set in the U.P. |
