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A First
Novel
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The Multiple
Award-Winning Novel,
This Is the Place
Read
the entire prologue to This Is the Place by sending
an e-mail to
CarolynHowardJohnson@sendfree.com.
Listen to her
talk
about the historical facts in her fiction
with The
History Czar, Paul Bruno.
Listen while you're
working!
“When you live amid beauty
sometimes you don’t recognize discrimination,
and, if you do, you prefer
not to acknowledge it.”
~Quotation from This Is
the Place
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A
young journalist realizes that because she is half Mormon and half
Protestant she is not suitable material for love. She delves into her
Mormon heritage and journals her way through prejudice indo redemption.
She learns to mend her own life when she finds she cannot mend her
world. This novel, set in Salt Lake City in the 50s, reveals not only
complexities of the heart but the secrets of what some consider a
mysterious place and culture. |
"Howard-Johnson strengthens
her novel with behind-the-scenes details of
Mormon life and history
in a book suitable for all collections,
particularly those where . .
. Orson Scott Card's religious books are popular"
~ Library Journal
“[This Is the Place] instills the conflicts
of Mormonism so gracefully and incisively.”
~
James W. Ure, author of Leaving the Fold
“It's been a week … and still the characters fight
for attention in my thoughts.”
~ Warren Stucki, author of Boy’s
Pond
Available used (and very frugally) in paperback
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Learn More
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This Is the Place Here: |
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For reviews of
This Is the Place, complete with permission to reprint.
For an excerpt from This Is the
Place.
For a growing list of links about
tolerance.
For the study guide included in This Is the Place.
Rebecca Brown of
RebeccasReads.com said, "At
the end [of This Is the Place] there is a Reading Group Guide of
questions for serious discussion, which transforms this novel into a
textbook about closed societies & their impact."
For a
podcast
of
Carolyn talking to the Internet's premier history show talk program The
History Czar®. The topic? Mormon country--from her personal experience--and as she describes it in
This Is the Place.
This podcast
details how I got my This Is the Place into airport gift
shops and bookstores.
Blogaid's (once
called Just the FAQs) MaAnna Stephenson and I recorded a couple of different podcasts.
This one is on marketing fiction and poetry, the hurdles women had to
jump to carve careers in the 50s and 60s and the process of becoming a
writer. (Part I). Much of it is on the hard lessons learned with This
Is the Place and how those lessons can help other writers.
For Carolyn's personal essay "Beating Time at Its Own Game."
It includes the path taken through denial and cancer to
This Is the Place.
For a sample of
Carolyn's Short Stories. |
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Tip
Genealogists abound in Utah. I urge fellow lovers of family
history everywhere to follow their leads; in fact, go one step
farther than most of them do. Turn that history into a
biography, a memoir, or fictionalize it -- just as I did
with This
Is the Place. Records may be preserve but they history brought alive in a book lives
on forever.
Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or
tech on every page of this Web site.
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Mini
Biography
For Carolyn Howard-Johnson |
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(Searching for something more complete?
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 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. Her chapbook series coauthored with Magdalena
Ball have won multiple awards.
Carolyn 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."
You may want to refer to her growing list
of resources on Utah and tolerance on this Web site.
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
Professionals
Recent Media Releases
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"Careers
that are not fed die as readily
as any living organism
given no sustenance."
~
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Uriah Carr
Logo by
Lloyd King
All Carolyn's Frugal Books Are
Available on Kindle
As Well as Paperback
Helpful Books for Writers
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Books for Retailers
Poetry: The perfect inspirational gift
Fiction and Short Stories
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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.
Finalist
New Generation Book Awards 2012, The Frugal Book
Promoter, Finalist 2010 The Frugal Editor,
Winner 2010 Marketing Campaign for the Frugal Editor
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.
The Frugal
Book Promoter is runner-up in the how-to category for
the
Los Angeles Book Festival 2012
awards.
Nominated: Diamond Award
for Achievement in the Arts
Glendale
California's Arts and Culture Commission and the City of
Glendale Library.
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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Tips |
For a list
of resources on tolerance related movies, books,
organizations, and more,
click here.
For
a list
of resources on tolerance related movies, books,
organizations, and more,
click here.
Find tips on writing, promotion or
tech on every page of this Web site.
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Endorsements |
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"Howard-Johnson's
lyrical prose graces every page."
~ Marilyn
Ross, author, speaker, publishing consultant
"What a wonderful read! I
can see why [This Is the Place] won a number of awards."
~ Normal
Sundberg
“This author’s words set me free.”
~
Sona Ovasapyan, Student at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
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