Independent Publishing
Northwoods Narrative Group

Distinct voices.
Stories that stay with you.

Northwoods Narrative Group LLC is an independent Michigan publishing company featuring fiction, memoir, Upper Peninsula storytelling, and practical books for independent authors.

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3 Authors · 5 Books · Distinct Worlds
Stories with something real underneath them.
Start with a story

Five books. Five reasons to stay awhile.

Family secrets, Upper Peninsula life, hard-earned resilience, and practical tools for authors. Different shelves. Different readers. Deliberately distinct voices.

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Letters in the Attic

A multigenerational family story told through forgotten letters, love, secrets, and family history.

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North of the Bridge

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula through its people, places, history, humor, weather, and grit.

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The Blueprint

A raw memoir by Alfie Egan about inherited family patterns, survival, resilience, and learning to live differently.

The publishing house

Different genres. Shared ground.

Place. Memory. Family. Identity. Resilience. The books are different on purpose. What connects them is a belief in stories with something real underneath them.

Northwoods Narrative is the publisher umbrella. Individual books and author identities remain distinct, with their own audiences and worlds.

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Coming Soon · A true Thanksgiving story

No turkey. Big storm. Tractor in the ditch.

Thanksgiving 2024 brought two to six feet of snow, a tractor in the ditch, a full house, and a meal nobody planned. Teddy remembers how Maw made it work.

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Real stories. No generic voices.

Some books entertain. Some explain. Some make you remember something you thought you’d forgotten. We’re interested in all three.