MBPR Member Directory

1517 Media creates resources that communicate the gospel, enhance faith, and enrich the life of the Christian church and the communities it serves. 1517 Media designs and develops innovative resources for churches, higher education, and the home — all delivered in a wide range of media including print and digital formats, videos, apps, and online subscription offerings.

Freelance writer

As a small hybrid publisher, Amaranth Press is nimble and responsive with impeccable attention to detail. With more than 20 years in the publishing business, we have the tools and talent to provide everything an author needs for their book to succeed.

Provides freelance editorial services, including but not limited to developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, and proofreading. Primary expertise in K-12 nonfiction (both trade and educational), but available for other genres as well.

Bearport Publishing specializes in creating high-interest, visually appealing books that focus on fun and unusual topics that young readers love. Trade-like design, using a combination of both photographs and illustrations, and playful titling are what distinguish us in the K-8 educational market. For over 15 years Bearport has been creating books that feel less like supplemental texts and more like the books children really want to read.

Bookmobile provides services to publishers: printing, design, ebooks, and distribution

Button Poetry seeks to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach, and to develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.

Helping children develop a love of reading and learning, no matter their ability level, is at the heart of what we do at Capstone. Our passion for creating inspired learning has made us the most trusted publisher of children’s books and digital solutions for libraries, classrooms, and consumers for nearly 30 years. Capstone’s content comes in a variety of print and digital formats including board books, picture books, interactive books, apps, audio, and databases. Whether print, online, or new, yet-to-be-discovered formats, Capstone provides children and young adults with the content they love through our family of imprints and divisions.

Freelance editor and writer offering developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading services.

Freelance editor
I am a full-time freelance editor with experience in general interest nonfiction, education materials (middle school through college, adult ELL), magazines, newspapers, and fiction. Niche areas include: classic rock, instructional (self-help and how-to, such as crafts), business, collectibles, sports, and more. More than 20 years of experience. I work in Word, Acrobat, PowerPoint, Access, and Excel and with the following style guides: Chicago, AP, APA.

Educational, both print and digital

Coffee House Press is an internationally renowned independent book publisher and arts nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN; through their literary publications and Books in Action program, CHP acts as a catalyst and connector — between authors and readers, ideas and resources, creativity and community, inspiration and action.

Home to a community of over 125 award-winning independent publishers, Consortium is a highly regarded distribution company. Consortium grew out of a regional book wholesaling cooperative in 1985 to become a full-service distributor. Our current list of publishers illustrates our continued commitment to our literary roots. In addition, we continue to nurture key subject areas such as politics, popular culture, fiction, poetry, books in translation, comics, and distinctive children’s books, along with a wide variety of other categories.

Legal counsel for publishers, writers, illustrators, and agents. Practice areas include publishing agreements, copyrights, trademarks, film and TV options, distribution agreements, merchandise license agreements, and general business law.

A literary agency for professional novelists. This agency represents more than 150 novelists and sells more than 100 novels every year.

Elva Resa Publishing is an independent publishing company whose mission is to make a positive difference in people’s lives. We specialize in quality resources for and about military families.

English–Spanish translation, editing, and adaptation. Localization and multilingual project management. Children’s books, K–12, bilingual education, self-help, how-to books, nonfiction, magazines, and e-books.

Fleming Editorial Services provides content development, ghostwriting, copyediting, and proofreading services. Specialties include textbooks and ancillary educational content, business, and mathematics/statistics.

Free Spirit is the leading publisher of learning tools that support young people’s social-emotional health and educational needs. We help children and teens think for themselves, overcome challenges, and make a difference in the world.

Independent author.

Offering freelance developmental editing, substantive editing, and copyediting.

The mission of Hazelden Publishing is to provide products and services to help people recognize, understand, and overcome addiction and closely related problems.

I Libri provides custom design and production services for print and digital media. Specializing in book design & production and author websites, I Libri works closely with clients, whether individual authors or entire publishing and marketing teams.

Design studio specializing in book design and other information design projects, including cover design and marketing, layout, composition and typesetting, and production assistance in both print and electronic/eBook formats.

A graphic designer, art director and photographer providing the production services, interactive graphics, and creativity required to develop books, magazines, websites, ebooks, and apps in print, pixels, or both. An Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Lightroom aficionado who has worked with these programs and many more, Farr has taught the Adobe Creative Suite and Creative Cloud applications to over 2000 students and clients.

Founded in 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jump! publishes children’s nonfiction with a focus on curriculum-aligned subjects for emergent through early-fluent readers. Our books combine vibrant colors with captivating photography and corresponding text to draw readers into the subject and encourage reading success

Independent author and editor

KMH Editing provides freelance and contract book editing services for publishers and writers, drawing on one decade of in-house work and another decade of experience in freelance project management and developmental, substantive, and copy editing.

Book cover design. Page design and layout. Art direction. Photo art direction, retouching. Mechanicals, production.

Services include developmental editing, copy editing, proofreading, writing, and media relations.

Laurie Ingram is the principal, art director and designer of Laurie Ingram Art + Design, an independent art design studio in St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in book cover design, book design, print, and branding. Laurie currently serves on Board of Directors for Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable and Irish Network Minnesota.

Lerner Publishing Group is one of the nation’s largest independently owned children’s publishers with more than 10,000 books in print. For more than 50 years, we’ve created nonfiction and fiction books for preschool to young adult readers and for libraries, classrooms, and homes across the country.

Freelance production, page layout and design.

Llewellyn is the oldest and largest independent mind/body/spirit publisher in the United States, celebrating over a century of leadership in the industry on such subjects as self-help, metaphysical studies, mysticism, alternative health, divination, astrology, tarot, the paranormal, witchcraft, paganism, Wicca, magick, goddess lore, and garden witchery.

Llewellyn is the exclusive North American distributor of Lo Scarabeo tarot and oracle products and Troy Books, as well as a distributor of Blue Angel products.

Copyeditor, proofreader, developmental editor, and writer with a focus on trade nonfiction. I am also the co-head and senior editor of Twin Cities Geek (twincitiesgeek.com) and the marketing and social media liaison for the Professional Editors Network (pensite.org).

Publisher of one book in two versions, manuscript review, evaluations, editing, author coaching

Mary is a freelance writer, editor, and content publisher for print, digital, and web. Clients include educational publishers as well as financial corporations as a contractor. Currently writing a biography and children's book. Open to projects in nonfiction for any platform.

Mighty Media Press delivers captivating books and media that ignite a child’s curiosity, imagination, social awareness, and sense of adventure. Through our partnership with PGW/Perseus, we are part of the largest independent distribution group in the U.S. Discover why our books are mighty.

Creepers Mysteries series for kids 8 & up. Book in the front, script in the back.

I am an award-winning reporter/writer based in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area with over fifteen years of experience in radio, newspaper, magazine, and book publishing industries. I am currently the Director of Marketing at RosettaBooks. Please visit www.michelleweyenberg.com to see a list of services I provide. I look forward to working with you!

The Quarto Group publishes illustrated non-fiction meant to educate and entertain its readers.

Queen of Swords Press is a small woman-owned genre fiction publisher. We publish novels, short story collections and anthologies, many with LGBTQ protagonists. Our books are available at all major outlets in ebook and print formats.

Red Line Editorial is a book development company that produces primarily K-12 nonfiction in partnership with publishing houses across the US and Canada.

We are a boutique literary agency with agents in the Twin-Cities, England, and Virginia.

Nonprofit book publisher of high-quality resources for educators of children ages birth through eight.

Complete book design and production.

The Editing Pencil specializes in copyediting (line editing) and proofreading works of nonfiction including books, newsletters, long-form articles, white papers, reports, textbooks, testing materials, corporate communications, journal articles, and web content.

The University of Minnesota Press is recognized internationally for its innovative, boundary-breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences and as publisher of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the most widely used objective tests of personality in the world. Minnesota also maintains as part of its mission a strong commitment to publishing books on the people, history, and natural environment of Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.

Vaerden & Co. collaborates with individuals and organizations to thoughtfully develop, design, and publish memorable books. We also partner with traditional publishers on special projects, from complex series to new imprints.

Book design, composition, and project management.