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Midwest Book Beat Resources
Make the work easier.
Free practical tools, templates, checklists, and opportunities for writers, bookish businesses, event organizers, and literary communities across the Midwest.
Press + mediaBuild stronger bios, press kits, pitches, and materials that make your work easier to understand and share.
Event prepChecklists and practical tools for signings, markets, festivals, workshops, and appearances.
Marketing + discoverySimple ways to make books, businesses, events, and projects easier for the right people to find.
OpportunitiesFind catalog placement, vendor calls, workshops, partnerships, and other ways to participate.
The working library
Everything in one place.
Use the free Midwest Book Beat resource board to find templates, checklists, guides, links, and current opportunities. Take what helps and come back when you need the next thing.
The board is free to use and updated as useful tools and opportunities become available.
Make discovery easier.
Use practical marketing tools to make your book, business, event, or project easier for the right people to find.
Find the openings.
Find calls for authors and vendors, catalog placements, workshops, events, and community collaborations.
Build the network.
Find bookstores, organizations, communities, and people helping literary life grow across the Midwest.
Membership
Resources stay free. Membership adds more ways to participate.
Anyone can use the resource board. Membership adds event, catalog, workshop, and participation benefits for people who want to get more involved with Midwest Book Beat.
Member pricing on eligible vendor opportunities
Catalog placement benefits by tier
Workshop benefits by tier
Partner Story Loft hours
Current membership options
Choose what fits.
Start free or join a paid tier for additional participation benefits. Current pricing and full details live on the membership page.
Reader · FreeCommunity · $5/moPartner · $20/mo
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Send us a useful tool, template, opportunity, or guide that could help writers, bookish businesses, organizers, or literary communities. We will take a look for the resource board.