Time to Send Submissions for U.P. Reader #3 IN THIS ISSUE

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1 NO. 3 VOL. XI 3RD QUARTER Time to Send Submissions for U.P. Reader #3 T he U.P. Reader is an annual publication that represents the cross-section of writers that are the membership of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association. This annual anthology will be used as a vehicle to showcase and promote the writers of the Upper Peninsula. Copies of the U.P. Reader will be made available to book sellers, UPPAA members, libraries, and news services. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Must be a current member of the UPPAA to submit. Submissions must be original with no prior appearance in web or print. Submissions will be accepted for up to 5,000 words. Writers who submit work which has previously appeared in blog posts, web pages, ebooks, or in print will be disqualified. Submissions can be any type of genre: Fiction, Nonfiction (memoirs, history, essays, feature articles, interviews, opinions) and Poetry. These also can include photography or artwork, but author must show permission for use. IN THIS ISSUE Fall Picnic... 2 Get Involved with UPPAA Dandelion Cottage Blog... 3 Adventures in the Library of Congress... 5 Member News News & Ideas Wanted.. 8 All submissions will be reviewed through a jury and the submissions will be chosen through this process. We prefer Microsoft Word Document (.doc) files only or plain text files (.txt). Do not submit PDF files. If you have some other type of text file, please inquire. Authors may include photos with the understanding that they will be converted to black-and-white. We reserve the right to limit the number of photos per story that will be used. Photos should be at least 300 DPI and no smaller than 2 inches on a sided (i.e. 600px minimum). If the Author is not the photographer, we may ask for a simple one-page Photo Release form to be sent in. The U.P. Reader will require FIRST time rights in print and digital. After one year ALL rights will return to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

2 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 author. The UPPAA retains the right to use it in perpetuity. For example, we anticipate a Best of U.P. Reader to be issued for the 10th anniversary. PUBLICATION SCHEDULE FOR U.P. READER ISSUE #3 Submission deadline: Nov. 15th, 2018 Dec 21, 2018 Jury / peer-review process begins Jan 15th, 2019 announcement of selected submissions Jan 16- Feb: Typesetting and cover design Spring Conference 2019: Launch celebration, location to be determined. Send your submissions to: Debbie Frontiera: dfrontiera@msn.com Mike: classenmikel@gmail.com OR submissions@upreader.org Be sure to put U.P. Reader Submission in the subject line. F 2 ifteen UPPAA members gathered at the pavilion in Presque Isle Park on Saturday, September 15 for the annual fall picnic. The food was great, and abundant, and those who came shared casual conversation with other members. It was a wonderful getting to know each other event. Thanks to all who worked to organize it and notify members. Thanks also to all who came. Get Involved With UPPAA O ur membership has soared to over 100 authors, poets, editors, illustrators, and independent publishers. The current Board of Directors invites you to get involved. Contact the committee chairs for more information. Contact Victor Volkman or Mikel Claussen to join the distribution and marketing team for the U.P. Reader. Assist Larry Buege by marketing our Dandelion Cottage short story writing contest to your local schools. Debbie Frontiera is our association newsletter editor and welcomes you to join her staff. Contact Gretchen Preston to join the 2019 conference planning committee. All members are welcome at board meetings. Our Board of Directors meets the First Friday of each month at noon in the Dandelion Cottage room at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette. Please feel free to join us. If you are out of the Marquette area, or unable to attend the meeting in person, you can join the board on its conference call line. Just dial You will then be asked to enter the code: #. We will be electing new association officers at our 2019 conference business meeting. All positions are open. Take time to review the job descriptions for each position below. If you are interested in running for an officer position, contact Tyler Tichelaar. Watch our group for more information! Fall Picnic Fun for All Who Attended

3 UPPAA Board Member Descriptions PRESIDENT The President s duties include: Presiding over the monthly Board meetings. Presiding over the annual business meeting at the spring conference. Organizing the spring conference with the help of the rest of the board. Responding to inquiries via and phone from interested prospective members. Promoting UPPAA through various means such as handing out brochures at events, bringing UPPAA material to the Superiorland Library Co-op for distribution, etc. Following up with fellow Board Members to ensure all board duties and responsibilities are being fulfilled. Proofreading the quarterly newsletters to make sure all information is accurate. VICE PRESIDENT The Vice President s duties include: Attending monthly Board meetings. Presiding over meetings if the President cannot. Preparing the agenda for the monthly Board meetings and submitting it to the President prior to the scheduled meeting. Serving on the annual conference planning committee. Working with the Board members and general membership to create new book marketing and sales opportunities. Promoting UPPAA publicly at appropriate opportunities. Being actively involved in all club activities and events. TREASURER The Treasurer s duties include: Filling out Federal e-postcard in January and the Michigan Corporation Annual Report in July. These documents are essential to keeping our non-profit status. Dandelion Cottage Blog The Dandelion Cottage Blog is new this year. Each week members of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association will be posting a writing tip from one of our authors or editors. The blog can be accessed from our web page at and clicking on blog or by going directly to www. DandelionCottage.org/blog. Students and teachers can subscribe to the blog by entering their name and address at the foot of the blog. Once subscribed, the weekly writing tips will be sent directly to the account. Individuals may unsubscribe at any time. This won t happen without the help of UPPAA members. Every writer has a tip or two worth sharing with newbie writers. If you have a writing tip, send it to Larry Buege at LSBuege@aol.com. The tips will be doled out weekly. Don t worry about duplicate tips. They will be spaced several months apart. There is more than one way to present a writing tip. Some of the tips begin with, Tell them to That is fine. I can rewrite the suggestion with minimal changes. The name of the tipper, web site address, and authored book will be added to the byline such as below. LARRY BUEGE, AUTHOR OF THE CHOGAN NATIVE AMERICAN SERIES Downloading money from dues payments from PayPal into our savings account. This should be done at least monthly. Paying all bills. This is a minor activity for most months, but the workload increases near the Spring Conference. Providing a monthly financial report for the board. Fiction writing skills (with humor) is helpful when preparing the report but not mandatory. 3

4 MEMBERSHIP CHAIR 4 The Membership Chair s duties include: Maintaining the current member database, including yearly renewal. Adding new members and their information to the database. Keeping the Newsletter Editor up to date on the member database. Adding members to discussion group. Annually removing people who are no longer members from the database and discussion group. Sending out member renewal notices in March of every year and then overdue notices. Sending out Conference registration and compiling a list of attendees and lunch numbers. Sending out and compiling conference surveys. Depositing membership dues checks to the UPPAA account. Sending out notices that go to the entire membership, for example the fall picnic. PUBLICATIONS CHAIR The Publications Chair s duties include: Managing everything related to the U.P. Reader, including submissions, concept, design, technical issues, promotion, and coordinating sales distribution. Working with other U.P. Reader staff and the UPPAA Board as well as the organizers/ student winners of the Dandelion Short Story Contest. Managing any new publications UPPAA may choose to pursue. RECORDING SECRETARY The Recording Secretary s duties include: Taking notes during the business meeting portion at the Spring Conference. Writing minutes based on these notes and keeping a copy for records. Reading minutes of last meeting during the business meeting at the conference. Taking notes during monthly board meetings and writing minutes WEBMASTER The Webmaster s duties include: Managing submissions for org, including new book announcements, author events, and listings of resources. Managing social media accounts such as Twitter and the UPPAA Facebook pages. Sharing management of the online discussion group with the Membership Secretary. NEWSLETTER EDITOR The Newsletter Editor s duties include: Gathering the news from members four times per year for the spring, summer, fall, and winter newsletters (generally sent in April, July, late Sept./Oct. and late Jan./ Feb.) Preparing the newsletter text and saving any images sent. Having another UPPAA member proofread the newsletter for typos and missing or wrong information. Sending the text file and any images via to Margaret Helminen at Designotype Printers, Inc. for formal layout. Reviewing proofs from Designotype and approving or recommending changes. Using the UPPAA membership list to send out the PDF newsletter to the membership. For the spring issue, Designotype mails the printed version. The spring issue always focuses on the Spring Conference.

5 Adventures In The Library Of Congress CONTRIBUTED BY LARRY BUEGE As most of you know, your work is copyright protected as soon as the ink dries, but this is only valid if you can prove it was your ink. Some people suggest mailing a manuscript to themselves. The postmark on the unopened parcel provides a legal date of authorship. Personally, I would be flattered if someone were to claim rights to one of my novels. The best way to document a copyright is to register the work with the Federal Government. This costs about $35 and requires a donation of the work to the Library of Congress. After the many hours spent on writing a novel, I have always felt thirty-five dollars was a small token. Perhaps my decision was tainted with vanity, since the copyright office provides a certificate suitable for framing (my certificates are secured in a safe) and the Library of Congress provides a modicum of immortality. I recently traveled to Washington D.C. and would have enjoyed visiting the Library of Congress to check out one of my novels (just to ensure they were taking good care of them), but my traveling companions preferred touring the Capitol and Smithsonian Museums. Fortunately, the Capitol tour guide was very knowledgeable concerning the Library of Congress. It appears, mere mortals are not allowed to check out books. (We wouldn t want their only copy of Cold Turkey to disappear.) Upon request, anyone can access books in the reading room. Retrieving the books can take one or two hours if the book is onsite. I was confused when the tour guide mentioned on site. I assumed all books were at the Library of Congress. Apparently, the library receives more than 12,000 new items each day. Most of them are copyright material such as my novels. In total they have 162 million items and enough books to fill 838 miles of bookshelves. This is more than what can be stored at the Library of Congress. In 1994 the Library of Congress acquired 100 acres at Fort Meade for further storage. Plans call for thirteen modules if needed. As of 2017 only five have been constructed. The temperature is maintained at 50 degrees plus or minus 2.5 degrees, and the humidity is confined to 30% plus or minus 5%. Since the bookshelves are thirty feet high, the temperature and humidity have to be monitored at three different levels. The library expects the stored material to last more than 240 years, which is probably longer than I will live. Next time you are in Washington stop by the library and check out one of my books. If the book is stored at Fort Meade, it will take one or two days to retrieve, but it is well worth the wait. 5

6 MEMBER NEWS Judy Carlsen is working on several writing projects, including a book, but she also has an article regarding the Ojibwa of the Keweenaw Peninsula printed in the November/December 2017 issue of Michigan History Magazine. The name of the article is Zeba: Legacy of an Indian Mission. Lon and Lynn Emerick have a recent follow-up project to their book Lumberjack Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which is now out of print. After the first print, they developed a slide show of historic lumbering photos, along with a narrative, and presented it at many venues across the UP and downstate. They later donated the materials to Schoolcraft County, which catalogued and preserved them well, but there was no way to show or share them. So they retrieved the materials, had all the slides scanned on to CD by Superior View Studios and had DVDs made of those images, plus narration and music, by La Dolce Video of Marquette. There are two versions: One 20 minutes, and one 8 minutes for varying uses. They offer it free of charge to non-profit historical societies and visitor centers in the U.P. It is copyrighted so it cannot be copied or sold, but used for visitor education/enjoyment. 6 Jon Taylor s U.P.-inspired poem, Death March, was featured on the website Poetry Super Highway for the week of August This is the poem s first publication, but it will be included in a new edition of Berry Picker s Blues, the author s volume of Northwoods/U.P. Poems, planned for release next summer in Sharron Kennedy is once again writing a general interest weekly column for the Sault News. She calls it Common Sense at 70. She s also been writing for the monthly magazine the Mackinac Journal published in Cheboygan. Sometimes the Michigan Outdoor monthly magazine runs one of her interviews with hunters, trappers, or fishermen. She s had success with other senior papers throughout the US, and has received tear sheets from Alaska, Illinois, New Hampshire, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, and a half-dozen other states. Finally, one of her stories was accepted for publication earlier last spring in Laugh Out Loud, a compilation of humorous stories written by women from the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop. The book is now available on Amazon. Laugh-Out-Loud-HumoristsCelebrate/dp Her accomplishments with these publications demonstrate that books aren t the only way to make a few dollars writing. Richard P. Smith s latest, Book 7 of Great MI Deer Tales, is now finished. He and his wife Lucy will be picking it up soon from the printer. Richard also offers this marketing tip: book authors can help market their books by offering excerpts of their titles to editors of appropriate magazines or other publications for free in exchange for promotional consideration. In other words, readers are told how to buy

7 your book in an editor s note at the end of the excerpt. Richard did that very thing to help promote his 3rd edition of Tracking Wounded Deer. That book was published during August of Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine just published an excerpt from the book in their September 2018 edition, with information about ordering the book. Ann Miller will be attending the Twin Cities Book Festival at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on Saturday October 13th from 10-5pm, where she will be selling her debut love story, The Last Photograph. Goddess Heart Dancing Cards, Supporting Your Pathway to Light, written and illustrated by Roslyn McGrath is about how to work intuitively and creatively with the imagery and themes of the myriad aspects of the Sacred Feminine explored in the recently published book Goddess Heart Dancing, in tandem with Goddess Heart Rising Cards, or on their own. Each set contains 20 full-color 3 ½ x 5 ½ UVcoated cards with evocative Goddess art, clarifying overviews of archetypal themes, suggestions for using the set effectively, a message from author/ illustrator Roslyn Elena McGrath, and a coppercolored organza drawstring pouch for safekeeping. It is available at Panara Imports and Garden Bouquet & Design in downtown Marquette, or online at www. EmpoweringLightworks. com/art/goddessspaintings/goddess-heartrising-cards/. July 19, 2018 Awardwinning author Tyler R. Tichelaar has released his nineteenth book, When Teddy Came to Town, a fascinating look at the Roosevelt libel trial of 1913 a story as relevant today as it was more than a century ago. 7

8 Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association 431 BUSINESS 141 NORTH COLEMAN, WI FALL 2018 The Written Word is a publication of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association President: Tyler Tichelaar... tyler@marquettefiction.com Vice President: Gretchen Preston... gfgoodrich@gmail.com Membership: Brandy Thomas... brandy@thomasediting.com Treasurer: Larry Buege... LSBuege@aol.com Recording Secretary: Jenifer Brady... buddycheckabby@yahoo.com Webmaster: Victor Volkman... webmaster@uppaa.org Newsletter Editor: Deborah Frontiera... dfrontiera@msn.com Chair of Publications: Mikel Classen... classenmikel@gmail.com From your editor, Deborah K. Frontiera: Keep your news, marketing tips, member profiles, and other information of interest to the group coming. to: dfrontiera@msn.com. Newsletter design and layout courtesy of Designotype Printers. Inc. Calumet, Michigan