I joined the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors & Association and received a wealth of advice and encouragement from its membership for which I'm very grateful. I decided to publish using CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform which was fairly easy to do, although it took me several weeks before I could find a decent illustration for my book cover. I had books shipped to me, loaded them in my car, and drove to the U.P. in mid-May to sell books for the first time as well as attend the UPPAA conference. As a salesperson, I was nervous because selling is way outside of my comfort zone. I was pleasantly surprised though, by how nice the store owners were. A total of 40 stores bought copies of my book which blew me away.
I also worked on a PowerPoint presentation about the 1913 labor strike and Italian Hall. My nephew Sean created a wonderful short video that accompanied my presentation perfectly. Although I had to work through alot of nervousness, I've managed to do the presentation at Fort Wilkins in Copper Harbor, the Port Huron Library, the Lyon Township Library and the Huntington Woods Library. Through it all, I met many interesting people with U.P. tales of their own. I also did alot of personal growth and confidence building as a result of doing the presentations.
The Thumbprint News recently published an article I wrote about the 1913 strike leading up to Italian Hall. You can download the article to your tablet, or print out pages 1, 20 and 21: http://www.thumbprintnews.com/
As always, Copper Empire is available in many U.P. stores as well as Amazon.com. You can also purchase a Kindle version: http://www.amazon.com/Copper-Empire-Donna-Searight-Simons/dp/1482656698/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386257816&sr=1-1&keywords=copper+empire
Thank you all for your support during this past year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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