Media Kits

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Links for media kits:

Media Kit focused on the second edition of the Frugal Book Promoter, updated and expanded (to 416 pages!)

Resume focused on Carolyn's acting and modeling at LA Casting for photogaphers, casting directors, producers and others. (Agent Tag Models, 323-602-0344)

Media kit focused on Carolyn's presentation skills for writers' conference, book fair program directors, and tradeshow planners.

Media Kit focused on Carolyn's writing for editors, producers, agents and Webmasters.

Media kit focused on Carolyn's retail industry experience as a writer, a speaker, and founder and owner of her own small chain of retail stores.

Bonus Links

Mini Biography
for
Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Short Biography for Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Searching for something more complete?
Biographies of different lengths and with different focuses
are available in Carolyn's Media Kits (see below).
Check out the links on this page for an assortment of focused media kits.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. An instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program, her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t is recommended reading for her classes, was named USA Book News’ Best Professional Book, and was given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series for writers is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. It won USA Book News and Reader Views Literary Awards and the campaign for it won New Generations Marketing Award. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers' Society of America's Silver Award of Excellence. She is also the author of a series of chapbooks in the Celebration Series. They were coauthored with Magdalena Ball and include Cherished Pulse, Imagining the Future and She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood. She is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award; her community's Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." She blogs at Writer's Digest 101 Best Website pick, www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com.

Learn more about Carolyn's retail background.

Media Kit Tip:

In the Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, Carolyn Howard-Johnson advises that media kits be designed to make life easy for reviewers, editors, producers, hosts. She uses a convenient Contents page to help them find what they need, includes ready-to-print material in the kit--with permission to do so--and provides easily accessible contact information including fellow experts in the several fields she speaks on. She encourages fellow authors to download her kits to use as templates.

Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or tech on every page of this Web site.