Your Career, Your Fun: An Off-the-Beaten Path Writers Conference

Carolyn Howard-Johnson shares writers’ resources on her award-winning blog Sharing with Writers

In The Frugal Book Promoter, I suggest combining a Writers’ Conference and travel to keep a little spice in the lives of authors who spend lots of solitary time behind a computer and reduce taxes (along with lots of ways to make writers’ conferences more productive for writers!)  I will be presenting (see the details below) and plan to do use that. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan! Really!! Maybe combine it with a cruise of the Great Lakes!  

But now is the time to circle your calendar (June 6) and start making plans for a career-boosting event and some fun. I would love to see in Michigan!  Here is some basic information and a link for learning more.  

The 21st annual Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) Spring Conference will be held June 6th 2020 at the Olson Library on the campus of Northern Michigan University, Marquette Michigan.  Attendance is free for UPPAA members and $50 for non-members.  The Spring Conference will be preceded by a pre-conference Fiction Writing Workshop hosted by Red Ore Writers.

Authors who attend will learn best practices for writing, marketing, and selling their work from a broad selection of industry professionals.  This year’s special topics include: romance writing, children’s picture books, social media marketing, and writing/researching your historical fiction/non-fiction books. Our keynote speaker is Carolyn Howard-Johnson who will present “Your Frugal Book Launch:  The first 100 days to success”.  Updates will be posted at www.UPPAA.org.

MORE ABOUT THE BLOGGER

 Howard-Johnson is the multi award-wining author of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is

also a marketing consultant, editor, and author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers including the multi award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter (http://bit.ly/FrugalBookPromoIII), now offered by Modern History Press in its third edition. Carolyn’s latest is in the #HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers is How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically. Learn more on her Amazon profile page (http://bit.ly/CarolynsAmznProfile). Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers (http://bit.ly/Last-MinuteEditing) is one of her booklets–perfect for inexpensive gift giving–and, another booklet, The Great First Impression Book Proposal (http://bit.ly/BookProposalsII) helps writers who want to be traditionally published. The Frugal Editor (http://bit.ly/FrugalEditor), now in its second edition, is the winningest book in the series. Carolyn also has three frugal books for retailers including one she encourages authors to read because it will help them convince retailers to host their workshops, presentations, and signings. It is A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions (http://bit.ly/RetailersGuide). In addition to this blog, Carolyn helps writers extend the exposure of their favorite reviews at TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. She also blogs at all things editing–grammar, formatting and more–at The Frugal, Smart, and Tuned-In Editor (http://TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com)