Table 3.  Beavers Pond Press is a publisher committed to helping authors publish their best possible book.  We’re committed to helping you develop, plan, sell and market your book from beginning to end.  Their model of coaching and mentoring authors every step of the way is why many authors publish their second and even third book with them. They offer project management, book design, coaching, illustration, printing, editing, proofreading, e-books as well as assistance getting your book into major distribution channels.  www.beaverspondpress.com

Table 1.  Bloomington Theatre and Art Center (BTAC), a 501(c)(3), is a nonprofit organization formed in 2009 from the merger of the Bloomington Civic Theatre and Bloomington Art Center. BTAC offers high-quality theater productions, art education for children and adults, and visual arts exhibitions featuring the work of emerging and established artists from Minnesota and surrounding states. www.btacmn.org

Table 22.  Book Architects is a group of veteran publishing professionals who help writers understand and navigate the chaotic, confusing world that is publishing today. From straightforward manuscript evaluations to helping to determine the best route to a published print book or eBook, Book Architects can answer your questions, provide direction, support, motivation, and cost-efficiency. www.bookarchitects.net

Table 10.  Bookmen Media Group (BMG) is a one-stop resource for all your book needs.  Our team of experts helps authors with content development (editing, proofreading), book cover and interior design, eBook conversion, publishing/printing (both traditional and author-financed), publicity and marketing, web development, SEO and social media.  These are areas most authors do not want to deal with or often don’t get the results they want. Turn to the experts for help bringing your project to market. www.bookmenmediagroup.com

Table 9.  Dakota Indexing provides back-of-the-book indexing for authors and publishers. They are knowledgeable in a wide range of subject matter specialties and deliver a thorough, accurate, user-friendly, reasonably priced index. We are especially helpful and patient when working with first-time and self-publishing authors. www.dakotaindexing.com

Table 8.  The Editing Professional – Shane Burton.  He offers several levels of services depending upon the needs of your project.  Shane offers everything from basic proofreading to full, deep content editing and manuscript critiques. www.theeditingprofessional.com

Table 8.  Fat Cat Art Studio – Lisa Olson. She offers high quality graphics for promotion and marketing. She has been a graphic designer in the printing and advertising industry for over 20 years. Her primary areas of focus have been education, corporate and franchise health care, snack food, building and remodeling, non-profit, and greenhouse industries. Lisa can also be seen with her camera as “SNAPPY the Spartan.”  www.fatcatartstudio.com

Table 16.  Fuzion Print is dedicated to providing the best digital print and copy solutions in the metro area.  Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, we effectively transform your vision into materials you will be proud to display. Fuzion Print aims to provide the metro area’s best digital printing products and services while producing the highest quality materials.  www.fuzionprint.com

Table 11.  Galde Press’s founder and president, Phyllis Galde, was a schoolteacher who witnessed the influence and enjoyment that reading provided to children. She left teaching to become Senior Editor at Llewellyn Publications, and eventually became Editor-In-Chief of FATE magazine, recognizing an under-addressed market for positive, helpful, informative, and entertaining books. Founded in 1991, Galde Press focuses on providing quality books that make a difference, and published its first title, Humor Travels Well. She is author of Crystal Healing:  The Next Step.  www.galdepress.com

Crystal Healing: the Next Step

Table 18.  GIR Graphics & Innovative Resources – JoAnne Funch.  She provides creative marketing solutions to gain greater visibility, build credibility, and sell more products.  She specifically helps authors gain exposure with off-line and online marketing strategies, develop consistent branding messages and websites, and choose social media platforms and integration of all online efforts. www.girpromotions.com.

Table 24.  Happy Hour Effect – Kristen Brown. She is a bestselling author, speaker, coach, widow mom and award-winning entrepreneur. She founded Happy Hour Effect LLC, a company that helps people minimize stress, maximize life and grow their businesses. Kristen has been featured across the country on TV, radio, print and online including “Live with Kelly and Michael” and HLN’s “Making It in America.” She helps fellow authors, experts and entrepreneurs grow their platforms and businesses with her Life and Platform Mapping processes.   www.kristenkbrown.com

The Best Worst Thing
The Happy Hour Effect

Table 23.  Imagination Ink – Rosanne Bane. She is a creativity coach, teaching artist and author. She has helped thousands of writers and other artists achieve their professional goals by understanding why it’s so hard (at times) to do the very thing they love to do, and what to do about that resistance. Her book focuses on brain science and how writers can use that information to resolve writing resistance. www.Baneofyourresistance.com

Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writing Resistance

Table 21.  Ken Kunkle’s law practice focuses on copyright, trademark, licensing, and general business services for clients in technology, entertainment, and other creative-based industries. A graduate of Hamline University School of Law, he has represented and is a frequent speaker to both legal and art, entertainment, and design-based professionals on legal issues affecting creative-based businesses.  He writes the award-winning Legal Muse blog (legal-muse.com) and Tweets at @kunkle law. www.kunklelaw.com

Table 20.  Little Buffalo Law – Aimée Bissonette. She has worked as a lawyer, teacher, and writer since 1987. Through Little Buffalo Law & Consulting, she helps clients make smart decisions about licensing their creative works. She has also negotiated publishing contracts with all of the major publishing houses as well as many small and medium-size presses.  Aimée holds a J.D. from the University of Minnesota.  She is the author of Cyber Law: Maximizing Safety and Minimizing Risk in Classrooms (Corwin Press 2009).  www.LittleBuffaloLaw.com

Cyber Law: Maximizing Safety and Minimizing Risk in Classrooms

Table 25.  The Loft Literary Center is one of the nation’s leading nonprofit literary centers, offering 400 creative writing classes a year for youth and adults at Open Book, community settings, and online. The Loft also supports writers and readers through grants, mentorships, writing studios, regular readings and a spoken word series, and on its website through a wealth of resources about the craft and the writing life. www.loft.org.

Table 4.  Midwest Independent Publishers Association serves the Midwest publishing community in a collaborative sharing of publishing, production, promotion, and marketing information. Through educational programming and other cooperative efforts, MIPA assists members in their publishing initiatives and ongoing endeavors. MIPA also provides networking opportunities for publishers, both new and experienced, to learn from each other.  MIPA’s members include printers, distributors, editors, indexers, artists, designers, and others who contribute to the vitality of the industry. www.mipa.org

Table 5.  Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is the largest and most comprehensive center of its kind in the nation, and celebrates the book as a vibrant contemporary art form that takes many shapes. From the traditional crafts of papermaking, letterpress printing and bookbinding to non-traditional art making and self-publishing techniques, MCBA supports the limitless creative evolution of book arts. www.mnbookarts.org.

Table 26.  The National League of American Pen Women, Minnesota Branch, is one of over 200 branches promoting the creative talents of writers, visual artists, musicians, and public speakers. We provide programs with featured speakers, mini-workshops, and critique sessions. Visitors are welcome.  http://www.mn-penwomen.org    http://www.nlapw.org/

Table 12.  Nodin Press – Norton Stillman. He has been a regional Minnesota publisher for 45 years. Since 1967, Nodin Press has published books dealing with various aspects of Minnesota and the surrounding region. His company has published over 200 titles including poetry, mystery, travel, music, biography, humor, essays, urban guides, nature guides, sports trivia, gardening and anthologies. www.nodinpress.com.

Table 13.  North Star Press is a small press royalty publisher of regional books, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry and memoir. They have published over 600 titles. Nearly all of their current books are also available as eBooks, and they have national distribution. They also help organizations and individuals with self-publishing projects. www.northstarpress.com

Table 27.  Open to Interpretation – started by Clare O’Neal.  It is a juried book competition bringing together photographers and writers. Each book begins with a themed call for photographs, and the selected images become the literary inspiration for the writers’ submissions. Two literary interpretations are chosen to accompany each image. The subsequent pairing of photographs and written pieces culminates in the publication of a high-quality, fine art book.  www.open2interpretation.com

Table 78.  Romancing the Lakes Romance Writers (RTL) group is for those who write stories about love and romance or stories with romantic elements. It meets every third Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. The novels include: Contemporary, Suspense, Mystery, Young Adult, Paranormal/Time Travel, Urban Fantasy, Steam Punk, Historical, Futuristic/Fantasy/Sci-Fi and Novellas. They are always open to new members. We are supporting a writing contest (information available in March) and a writing conference at Mystic Hotel in August. www.romancingthelakeswriters.com

Table 19.  RMA Publicity – Rachel Anderson. Her services include publicity consults, marketing plan creation and execution, writing services (press kits and press releases), media outreach throughout North America, and setting up book tours. Rachel is a marketing consultant/publicist with a media background.  She has been a television newscast producer in Minneapolis and Tampa and has written for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Sun and Tampa Tribune.  She also has corporate marketing experience. www.rmapublicity.com/

Table 6.  Spring Book Design – Dorie McClelland.  Dorie is an award-winning book designer and project manager who has developed and produced professional designs for more than 300 authors and publishers. She creates beautiful designs for authors to tell their stories, including trade paper fiction, professional nonfiction and business, coffee table books of art and photography, and family histories. Dorie is a member of Minnesota BookBuilders, Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable, and the Creatives Group, where she studies design and technology. www.springbrookdesign.com

Table 14.  Third Child Press – Tom Keyes His eclectic background in management and customer service gave him the basis for treating an author’s needs first, and helping them create a sound, marketable product. Working closely with other writing, editing and production experts, his clients get his full attention. Tom is a past Midwest Independent Publishers Association board member.  www.thirdchildpress.com

Table 7. Words and Deeds – Connie Anderson. She edits non-fiction and general fiction books, and considers herself an important part of the author’s team to create the best book possible.  She combines attention to detail with the ability to edit from the reader’s point of view, asking the “hard” questions.  She also works to protect the author from making the wrong decisions during the entire writing and publishing process. Her first book was just published. www.WordsandDeedsInc.com

In My Next Life I Want to be My Dog

Table 15.  Word & Image provides publishing and content solutions for authors, publishers, and organizations. They assist independent authors with self-publishing projects, including print on demand, distribution across all the major eBook markets, and marketing with websites and social media. Word & Image is a member of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association and the Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable.  www.wordimage.com

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Author Biz Consulting – Laurie Harper
www.authorbiz.com
Author Consultant

Beavers Pond Press
www.beaverspondpress.com
Publisher

Bizzy Web – Dave Meyer
www.bizzweb.com
Social Media/Web Design

Book Architects
www.bookarchitects.net
Author Consultants

Bookmen Media Group Inc
www.bookmenmediagroup.com
Publisher/Marketing

Dakota Indexing – Galen Schroeder
www.dakotaindexing.com
Book Indexing

Fat Cat Art Studio – Lisa Olson
www.fatcatartstudio.com
Book & Cover Design

Fuzion Print – Ann Aubitz
www.fuzionprint.com
Printing Services

GIR Promotions – Joanne Funch
www.girpromotions.com
Marketing/Publicity

Galde Press
www.galdepress.com
Publisher

Imagination Ink – Rosanne Bane
www.baneofyourresistance.com
Creativity Coach, Teaching Artist

Little Buffalo Law – Aimee Bissonette
www.littlebuffalolaw.com
Legal Issues

Kunkle Law – Ken Kunkle
www.kunklelaw.com
Legal Issues

Midwest Independent Publishers Association
www.mipa.org
Professional Association

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
www.mnbookarts.org
Book Arts

Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers
www.meetup.com/MinnSpec/
Writers Group

National League of American Pen Women
http://www.mn-penwomen.org,
Writers Group

North Star Press
www.northstarpress.com
Publisher

Nodin Press LLC
www.nodinpress.com
Publisher

Open to Interpretation
www.open2iinterpretation.com
Publisher

Romancing the Lakes Writers
www.romancingthelakeswriters.com
Writers Group

RMA Publicity – Rachel Anderson
www.rmapublicity.com
Marketing/Publicity

Spring Book Design
www.springbookdesign.com
Book Design

The Editing Professional – Shane Burton
www.theeditingprofessional.com
Editing/coaching

The Loft Literary Center
www.loft.org
Writing Classes

Third Child Press – Tom Keyes
www.thirdchildpress.com
Publisher/Mentor/Book Shepherd

TRISTAN Publishing
www.tristanpublishing.com
Publisher

Word & Image LLC
www.wordimage.com
Publisher

Words and Deeds Inc. – Connie Anderson
www.wordsanddeedsinc.com
Editing

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