Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project News

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Create professional-grade ebooks and print-ready books with MLPP

Mar 17, 2023
by Zach Miller
The Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project equips community groups, classrooms, and self-published authors with tools to transform their writing into professional-grade ebooks and print-ready books. Writing will always be hard, but with MLPP, publishing doesn't have to be.
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Publish your book with the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project

Jul 9, 2021
by Zach Miller
The Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (MLPP) provides online publishing tools for independent authors, supported by Minnesota's libraries. Whether you're a budding author looking to publish your first book, a professor with a textbook to offer, or a teacher eager to plan a writing project for your class this fall, MLPP is for you.
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Self-publish for free with the MLPP!

Dec 10, 2020
by Gina Drellack
Learn about self-publishing with the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (MLPP) in this free, self-paced course.
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Minnesota Author Project winners announced

Oct 2, 2020
by Zach Miller
Thomas Peacock won in the Adult Fiction category for his novel "The Wolf's Trail," and Bethany Atazadeh won the YA Fiction prize for "The Stolen Kingdom," a retelling of the legend of Aladdin and his lamp. Dr. Artika Tyner and the Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute won in the Communities Create category for "Justice Makes a Difference."

Writing is hard; publishing doesn't have to be

Mar 8, 2019
by Zach Miller

When Sue Anne Kirkham set out to transform her journal entries into a published memoir, odds are she didn’t expect it to take ten years. More than halfway in, she even considered scrapping the whole thing. But she persevered, and this month published "Loving Zelda: A Stepdaughter’s Caregiving Journal."

Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project

Nov 2, 2017
by Sarah Anderson, Zach Miller

The Minitex Video Team has published a brief video to introduce the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project to library staff and their patrons. The bottom line is this: if you're interested in self-publishing a book, Minnesota libraries can help!

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