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Lynn University Digital Press

Lynn University’s Digital Press presents Veterans Independent Publishing (VIP)

Our focus is to provide veterans and Gold Star family members a cost-free program to assist with memoir development, Multitouch book compilation, and self-publishing.

Goals

  • Enhance the mission of Lynn University Digital Press by serving the local veterans’ community;
  • Structure a publishing curriculum sensitive to technological skills of the program’s participants;
  • Promote collaboration, communication, and cooperation between participants, university staff, students, veterans service organizations, and the Veterans Administration (VA);
  • Provide resources which permit instruction and implementation of the successful publication of a Multi-touch book; and
  • Provide a functional coping mechanism to help process emotional effects of trauma.

Selection Criteria

  1. 10 participants will be selected from the pool of submissions;
  2. Proof of service (DD 214) or Gold Star Family Designation;
  3. Preference is given to Purple Heart recipients, Gold Star Family members and combat veterans, i.e. “infantry, pilots, corpsman, nurses, Coast Guard.”