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Authors' Access
Top Ten LIsts, 2007, 08, 09.
Visit with the
creative force behind the HowToDoItFrugally Series of Books for writers.
Carolyn shared her best tips and strategies for low-cost/zero-cost
marketing campaigns and also talked about what NOT to do to market your
books. She also talks about the value of editing and how it directly
controls how your proposals, books, and marketing are perceived in the
marketplace.
Listen to the interview on Authors Access
(visit link and click on the PODCAST button). Tune in each week as Irene
and Victor interview industry luminaries on marketing, writing, editing,
and publishing by
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Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or
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Nancy Arvizu interviews
publishing experts with the
aim to to promote authors, but also educate them, mostly about
marketing their work. She's interviewed me twice but I
especially loved the passion and inspiration in this interview.
Plus it includes my usual nitty-gritty ideas for writing
success.
Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or
tech on every page of this Web site. |
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Time
Savers for Your Web Site and Blog |
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Carolyn's
Reviews for Riters
(tm)--include reviews
of her recommended books for authors. These reviews
are available for reprint at no cost. See a
partial list of all the articles at the
free content page of
this site. For more information
e-mail Carolyn.
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Carolyn's
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Awards for Carolyn's aid to
better writing and
publishing,
The Frugal
Editor
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Winner Reader Views Award for Best
Professional Book
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Winner USA Book News Award
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Finalist Next Generation Book Awards
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Winner Next Generation Book Awards for the
Marketing Plan for that book
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Honorable Mention from Dan Poynter's Global
E-Book Awards
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Book Publicists of Southern California (BPSC)
coveted Irwin Award
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Writing Tip |
Passive
construction has gotten a bad wrap. We obviously have it in
the English language because it serves a purpose. There are
times when passive can work for an author. An example of
that is in an excerpt of This Is the Place where I wanted to
slow down the prose, wanted to make readers feel as if they
were stepping back to the 50 and even farther, to the 1800s.
Find an example of how I used it in an
excerpt from that
novel. Learn about other ways writers can use it
to their advantage in my
The Frugal Editor.
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promotion or tech on every page of this Web site.
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or tech tip on every page on this site. Sometimes you'll find two or
three! Happy browsing and collecting!
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You will find at least one promotion, writing,
or tech tip on every page on this site. Sometimes you'll find, two or
three! Happy browsing and collecting!
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To Z Now Available to Ukrainians
(In Ukrainian!)
What
Foreigners Need To Know About Americans From A To Z is
now available in simplified Chinese in two countries, in
English, and in Ukranian. |
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It's autumn,
1960, and JFK's presidential campaign heralds revolutionary changes in the
American social and cultural landscape. In a specialized inner city Detroit high
school, four teenage girls have established the roots of lasting friendship.
Their backgrounds are different, but their passion for classical music and angst
over raging hormones link them irrevocably. In the midst of this milieu, four
girlfriends maintain their mutual love and trust, and resolve to remain loyal "FourEver."
By Erica Miner.
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infinity of poetic stars by Magdalena Ball.
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Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers
"I have been a professional writer 40 years, and am also a
tenured full professor of journalism. Carolyn's Sharing with
Writers newsletter is most useful for me--and for my
students. I emphasize to them that while research is 90% of
writing, and the actual writing is about 10%, there's another
100% out there called promotion. Carolyn shows numerous ways to
get the message to the mass media."
~Walter Brasch, author
and educator
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Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers
"I have been a professional writer 40 years, and am also a
tenured full professor of journalism. Carolyn's Sharing with
Writers newsletter is most useful for me--and for my
students. I emphasize to them that while research is 90% of
writing, and the actual writing is about 10%, there's another
100% out there called promotion. Carolyn shows numerous ways to
get the message to the mass media."
~Walter Brasch, author
and educator
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Point-of-Purchase Greeting Cards of Real Poetry
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Cover art by Vicki
Thomas, Poetry by Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard-Johnson
"Cherished
Pulse is full of poems that describe love from the eyes and
hearts of young and old. We see love in its youthful stage, stirring the
hearts of man and woman alike and tying a bond that even death cannot
break. As we continue reading, we understand that love deepens into an
awesome, but quiet joy as the couple grows older. These poems renew our
faith in love as they remind us of our own experience with this most
sought after emotion."
~
Lucille P Robinson for
Alternative-Read.com
Third in the Celebration
of Chapbooks with Magdalena Ball,
Imagining the Future is written expressly for fathers "and
other masculine apparitions."
She Wore Emerald Then is a book of Moods of Motherhood:
thirty poems by award-winning poets Magdalena Ball and Carolyn
Howard-Johnson, with original photography by May Lattanzio. A
beautifully presented, tender and strikingly original gift book, ideal
for Mother's Day or any day when you want to celebrate the notion of
motherhood in its broadest sense. Share this collection with someone
you love.
More on
Blooming
Red: Christmas Poetry for the Rational on this Web site.
Sublime Planet
is an e-chapbook and paperback
published in the time-honored
tradition
of poets everywhere.
This collection of
ecologically oriented poems traverses a wide terrain, moving
from the loss of species to the beauty of the natural world,
from drought to the exploration of alternative planets. It's
an exhilarating collection that breaks boundaries and leads
the reader deep into the personal heart of perception.
Released by award winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and
Magdalena Ball to celebrate Earth Day, this is a collection
of poetry that weaves the personal with the universal.
Photograpy by Ann Howley.
“Whatever your age these
poems celebrating women will
speak to you of times to look forward to or to remember. These are not
poems to be read once. They will stay with you forever.”
~ Nancy Famolari, author.
Also by
Carolyn:
Tracings is winner of the Military Society of
America's Award of Excellence and named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten
Best Reads of 2005
 Imperfect Echoes is
Carolyn's newest poetry book. Writing Truth and Justice with Capital
Letters, lie and oppression with Small.
Cover and interior
art by Richard Conway Jackson
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that are not fed die as readily as any living organism given no
sustenance."
~
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Imagine you have made a secret promise
that can lead you to an incredible treasure and an ancient power. But in
order to fulfill that promise, you must defeat an age-old sect
determined to claim the treasure and power themselves. Find this book on
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local
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The Frugal Book Promoter
is one of your most valuable resources because
it is written from personal experience and gives you
the basics for promoting everything else you do--in
print, on TV or radio, or online. See an excerpt on
Fifteen
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Endorsements |
What Utah Authors Are
Saying about
This Is the Place:
“[This Is the Place] instills the conflicts
of Mormonism so gracefully and incisively...”
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James W. Ure, author of Leaving the Fold
“It's been a week … and still the characters fight
for attention in my thoughts.”
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Warren Stucki, author of Boy’s
Pond
This Is the Place is out of
print. It is available using Amazon's
new and used feature.
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Carolyn's Blogs |
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The Frugal Retailer Blog
Carolyn shares nearly three decades of
retailing experience with
an emphasis on marketing.
Sharing with Writers
All things publishing with
an emphasis on book
promotion. Named to
Writer's Digest
101 Best Website list.
The New Book Review
Great way for readers, authors, reviewers and publicists to get more
mileage out of
a great review.
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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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.
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You'll love Nancy Mills' Interviews
with Famous Women Writers
(When you check out the link, scroll down to see the
one featuring Carolyn!)
My
interview with Spirited Woman Nancy Mills included a bit of
nostalgia. The way journalism used to be before computers,
what it was like to be in New York in Christian Dior's time,
how Good Housekeeping magazine used to be. Sign up with
Nancy now for the CD or podcast of this interview or to hear
her interview with fellow
Spirited Woman authors including
USA Today's Most Influential winner Jacqueline Mitchard,
author of the Deep End of the Ocean and Catherine Ryan Hyde,
author of Pay It Forward. Scroll for information on
my CD.
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A
Selection of Carolyn's Past
Speaking Engagements |
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Presenter
2009, 2010
Presenter,
2008, 09, 10, 11
Panel moderator, 2007
National Span College
presenter 2002
Fellows presenter, 2007,
08
Co-sponsor and presenter,
2007, 08, 09, 10, 11
University of Dayton Erma
Bombeck Writers' Conference, 2006, 2008
Sisters in Crime,
Pasadena, 2009
On the
Los Angeles Valley College Campus 2012, Rancho
Library 2013,
Valley College Spring 2014
Wisconsin Regional Writers Association
Presenter, Keynote 2010
Book 'Em,
NC,
Three Panels 2013
Presenter, 2013
Seminar Speaker, 2014
Keynote, 2013; 2014
Secrets of Great
Dialogue, 2015
Digging Up Memories and Bringing the Dead Back to
Life
2015
Frugal
Book Promotion.
Judith Briles' Extravaganza,
Denver, CO, 2016
Philadelphia, Nov. 2017
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marketing partner. He is always right there with his poster
program, too. He always has one that fits
my most recent efforts--poetry, promotion, or about anything
else!
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Proud to be Instrumental in
Helping Other Poets |
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Poetry Mystique: A modern
text edited by Suzanne Lummis with commentary from the
editor.
Poems by selected students from Suzanne's
poetry classes including my "Songs from the South."
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Marketing Tip |
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Carolyn Loves Author Learning Center. She even
recorded a tip for their free
Learning Center tutorials on finding something
in your past that will add credibility to your query
letter and bio--even if you haven't yet published! |
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