meet UPPAA author Jon Stott – “Yooper Ale Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula “

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Local Beer Guidebook Author to Visit UP Brewpubs and Craft Breweries This June, Jon C. Stott, award-winning writer of beer travel books, will be visiting brewpubs and craft breweries in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to celebrate the publication of his new book, Yooper Ale Trails (published by Modern History Press, Ann…

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Volkman reviews Tyler R. Tichelaar’s “Kawbawgam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man”

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by Victor R. Volkman, Senior Editor, Modern History Press TITLE: Kawbagam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man AUTHOR: Tyler R. Tichelaar PUB DATE: Nov. 2020 PUBLISHER: Marquette Fiction. Kawbawgam  by Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD, is the first woke history of Native Americans in Upper Michigan that I have read. I’ll…

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NMU Lecture series #1 — My Twenty-Year Self-Publishing Odyssey – Lessons for Aspiring Authors

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UPPAA Speakers Bureau Presents: Anne Miller – Author of The Last Photograph Presentation Title:  “My Twenty-Year Self-Publishing Odyssey – Lessons for Aspiring Authors” When: October 1st, 2019, 7:00pm – 8:30pm.  Admission is free. Where: Lydia M. Olson Library, NMU campus Every writer dreams of becoming an overnight success, but it…

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UPPAA Members to Participate in Canterbury Book Store book sale

  Several UPPAA members are planning to participate in the upcoming book sale at the Canterbury Book Store in Escanaba this coming Saturday, August 3. If participating authors (or those just wanting to spread the word) would like to post on their websites and social media, the following links have…

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2019 UPPAA Conference Schedule Announced!

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  Please click here to register now!  Always FREE for Members, only $15 for non-Members UPPAA Annual Conference, Peter White Public Library, Marquette, MI Saturday, June 1, 2019 10:00-10:30 – Registration in the Community Room 10:30-10:45 – Opening remarks, President Tyler Tichelaar, Community Room 10:45-11:45 – Keynote, Karen Dionne, Community…

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Upper Peninsula of MI Adventure Continues in Second Edition of ‘Lake Superior Tales’

Pirates and treasure, the timeless theme in adventurous fiction, takes center stage in Mikel B. Classen’s second edition of Lake Superior Tales: Stories of Humor and Adventure in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Published by the Modern History Press (November 2018), the book includes ten stories that span the 19th century through present day,…

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