Good morning everyone,

I just wanted to send out the responses and resources that we recommended to me yesterday in regards to Michigan Author Resources. Here is the list of suggestions:

·         Michigan Notable Authors from the Library of Michigan

o   https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,9327,7-381-88854_90002---,00.html

·         2019 Michigan Notable Books!

o   https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,9327,7-381-88854_90002-486650--,00.html

·         Michigan Authors and Illustrators Database from the Library of Michigan

o   http://libraryofmichigan.state.mi.us/authors/home

·         Fantastic Fiction

o   https://www.fantasticfiction.com

·         Wikipedia List of Michigan Writers

o   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Michigan_writers#Fiction

·         Popular Michigan Authors Books from Goodreads

o   https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/michigan-authors

·         Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators

o   https://www.scbwi.org/speakers-bureau/?speaker_name=&book_title=&role=&reg=761&zip=&radius=&book_topics=

·         Lenawee District Library’s example of their local author search term

o   http://lenawee.polarislibrary.com/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=5.1033.0.0.1&type=Keyword&term=local%20author&by=KW&sort=RELEVANCE&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0&searchid=1

Thank you again to everyone who responded, especially Cherie Edmonds, Josh Olsen, Jan Gillis, Judy Murray, Alan Naldrett, Danielle Leithauser, Shutta Crum, Lindsey Sanford, Arleen Wood, and Tim Gleisner.

Thanks again everyone!