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http://www.SharingWithWriters.blogspot.com
Sharing
with Writers is a blog on all things publishing with an
emphasis on book promotion. It was named to Writer's Digest
101 Best Website list.
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http://TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com
The New Book Review is a great way for readers, authors,
reviewers and publicists to get more mileage out of a great
review. Guidelines for submitting (and recycling) good
reviews are in the left column. Named to Online
Universities'
101 Book Blogs You Need to Read.
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http://www.SizzlingBookFairBooths.blogspot.com
This
is a blog where participants in the Authors' Coop
booths exchange ideas that make a ho-hum booth into a
sizzling success. Though I don't sponsor the booth any
longer, I've kept it open so all authors can learn
from our successes and mmmm ...challenges.
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http://www.TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com
This is the Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor blog. It
covers everything that has anything to do with editing from
grammar to formatting. The question and answer format
encourages you to get the answers you need.
Now blogging on War. Peace. Tolerance and Our Soldiers
at:
http://warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com
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Click here for Carolyn's first
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author of 90 Day Goals. Learn more about everything from nude
cover photos to tolerance to writing book proposals but mostly it's a
sample of a natural, down-to-earth interview.
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Media Kit Tip:
In the Frugal Book Promoter,
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 with permission to do so, and, of course, 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.
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Mini
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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, the second edition of her book
The Frugal Book Promoter is recommended reading for
her classes and was named USA Book News’ Best Business book,
just like the first edition, which was also given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the HowToDo ItFrugally series 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. Books in her
series for retailers are also award winners. She is the recipient of the California
Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and
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."
Her Web site is
www.HowToDoItFrugally.com.
Media Kit for Program Directors
for Radio, TV, Conferences, Radio Shows
Media Kit for Book,
Entertainment and Feature Editors
Kit for Reviewers
Media Kit for Retail
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Recent Media Releases
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Buy Links for
Carolyn's Books
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Great
Fiction
Purchase THIS IS THE PLACE
and HARKENING
at Amazon.
Great
Poetry
Purchase
TRACINGS
(Finishing Line Press) at Amazon.
Give the
gift of poetry with a chapbook from Magdalena Ball's
and
My Celebration Series
CHERISHED PULSE:
Unconventional Love
Poetry
IMAGINING THE FUTURE:
Ruminations on Fathers and Other Masculine Apparitions
SHE WORE
EMERALD THEN: Reflections on Motherhood
BLOOMING RED: Christmas Poetry for the Rational
DEEPER INTO THE POND:
Celebration of Femininity
HowToDoItFrugally Series
for Writers
Purchase
THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER,
Second Edition
THE FRUGAL EDITOR
GREAT LITTLE LAST
MINUTE EDITING TIPS FOR WRITERS
Survive and
Thrive Series of HowToDoItFrugally Books for Retailers
A RETAILER'S
GUIDE TO FRUGAL IN-STORE PROMOTION
FRUGAL AND
FOCUSED TWEETING FOR RETAILERS
YOUR BLOG,
YOUR BUSINESS
Purchase audios for writers at
Tri-Studio.
Most of Carolyn's books are
also available for the Kindle reader.
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"Careers
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readily as any living organism
given no sustenance."
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Uriah Carr
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Tips for Effective Blogging
Shelley Hitz is a wonderful resource for writers--those who
are publishing on their own and those who are traditionally
published. Check out her "Guest
Blogging for Success."
Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or
tech on every page of this Web site.
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Carolyn's Blogs |
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Sharing with Writers
All things publishing with
an emphasis on book
promotion. Named to
Writer's Digest
101 Best Website list.
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The New Book Review
Great way for readers, authors, reviewers and publicists to get more
mileage out of
a great review.
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The Frugal Editor Blog
This is the Frugal, Smart
and Tuned-In Editor blog.
Covers editing, grammar, formatting and more.
Get the answers you need.
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Carolyn's Calendar |
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Please click on my Google Calendar
button to learn more about my upcoming UCLA Extension Writers' Program
classes, my writers' conference and book fair appearances and more.
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Carolyn's Awards |
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Awards for Carolyn's Books, Blogs and More The New Book Review
Named to
Online Universities'
101 Book Blogs
You Need to Read
Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites
for Sharing with Writers blog.
Best Book Award for The Frugal Book Promoter (2004) and The Frugal Editor (2008)
and the Second Edition of The Frugal Book Promoter
(2011).
Reader Views Literary Award for The Frugal Editor
New Generation Award for Marketing and Finalist for The Frugal Editor
Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award
Military Writers Award of Excellence for
Tracings, A Chapbook of Poetry.
A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotion wins author Military
Writers Society of America's Author of the Month award for March, 2010
Gold Medal
Award from Military Writers Society of America, 2010.
MWSA also gave a nod to
She
Wore Emerald Then,
a chapbook of poetry honoring mothers.
The Frugal
Editor
Named #! on Top Ten
Editing Books list.
The Oxford Award
recognizes
the
alumna who exemplifies the Delta Gamma precept of
service to her community and who, through the years,
devotes her talents to improve the quality of life
around her.
And more than a dozen other awards for Carolyn's novel, short story collection and poetry.
See the awards page on this site.
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ABWA is a group of highly
skilled networkering women in business.
Military Writers' Society of America
Honorary member of
Publishers and
Writers of San Diego.
Book Publicists of
Southern California
(BPSC) Pix: Proud Irwin Award Winners
Carolyn and Janet
Goliger, l. to r.
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