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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I am a happy novelist, poet, freelance writer, movie reviewer, editor and founder of Authors' Coalition.
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- My website is designed as a resource for writers and readers. It is http://www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
- About Me:
- Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, 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 was named USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004," 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. 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 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 website is http://www.HowToDoItFrugally.com .
Find my blogs at http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com
http://www.authorscoalition.blogspot.com
http://www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com
For an interactive newsletter in which readers share with writers and writers with readers send an e-amil with "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line to HoJoNews@aol.com
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- My own, of course. They are from the heart. Also To Kill a Mockingbird, Anna Karenina, anything by Chekhov or Dostoevsky, Favorite today authors are Leora Skolkin-Smith, Khaled Hosseini, Lisa See, Leora Krygier, Eve LaSalle Caram. And, yes John Grisham. The man knows how to write scenes!
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- I like Amazon. Yes, inexpensive, but they are also working mightily to support authors. There is a chapter in my how-tp book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T, that will help writers get started with the perks they offer. This is targeted marketing. Targeted to readers and then your niche among those readers.
Click on my Google Calendar to learn more about my writers' conference presentations, UCLA Extension Writer's Program classes, book fairs and more.
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Opportunity for Readers to Hear Authors, Authors to Read on the Radio (-:
Lillian Cauldwell and Carolyn Howard-Johnson invite authors to participate in a frugal and fabulous reading and cross-promotion adventure , Starting March, 2010.
Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio will feature authors of published books of fiction to join in the first-ever serial weekly literary festival where authors read brief excerpts from their books over PIVTR’s radio network.
(Nonfiction and Poe… Continue
Posted on November 8, 2009 at 10:58pm —
How Does Video Do More for You Than You Think It Does?
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BEST SELLING AUTHOR ONLINE INTERNET TV SHOW TEAMS WITH POPULAR AUTHORS' ADVOCATE TO COHOST
Carolyn Howard-Johnson has signed with CEO Rey Ybarra to serve as cointerviewer on Best Selling Author Television. Ybarra, interviews authors for his online video programming and who has interviewed many well-known authors such as Tony Robbins, Dan Millman, John Gray and Joan Borysenko to name a few.… Continue
Posted on March 7, 2008 at 3:58pm —
Reach Booksellers the Credible Way
Calling booksellers can be viewed as a nuisance if booksellers have no reason to know you.
Worse, it's impossible to call every bookbuyer and expensive to send info on your book out to hundreds of them.
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Posted on February 4, 2008 at 8:50pm —
Frugal Editor Wins USA Book News Best Book Award
Posted on November 7, 2007 at 5:10pm —
This is Jitters Week!
This week is jittrs week. Monday was my big release date for The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. It, unlike The Frugal Book Promoter, is traditionally published in a relatively small run (but still scary!). As with publishing of any kind, things haven't always gone smoothly.
… ContinuePosted on October 3, 2007 at 6:02pm — 3 Comments
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Who's Doing Cyber Monday?
I'm very carefully going to check out the Cyber Monday deals. I have a few items in mind that I plan to buy, but it would be very nice if they'd go on sale and save me some money. I won't be spending much. Can't afford to do so this year.What about you?
Did You Shop on Black Friday?
There's still time to take the poll to the left about what you ate at Thanksgiving.About Black Friday -
The DH despises mob scenes, but my brother and I do love the adventure of shopping on Black Friday. We weren't courageous enough to get up at the crack of dawn, though, so we did miss out on a few goodies, like the snuglee blankets and pots and pans sets at Menards, and some other items. I did manage to get some work gloves at almost 50 cents each pair, and a boot/shoe dryer which sounded interesting and was less than $9.00. The biggest extravagance there was this turntable with MP3 encoding/AM FM radio combination thing, but that was only $49.00, which isn't too bad. I didn't go for any of the high ticket items.
I didn't do too bad, but do have some Staples rebates to send in. They're pretty easy to do online, so I don't mind doing them. I bought some USB flash drives, batteries, and CD rewrites there.
I also bought a reversible light grey, almost white bubble coat and some grey boots at Walmart, both items $7.00 each, which I plan to use walking Rascal.
What about you? Did you shop on Black Friday? If so, what kind of deals did you get?
So, this year I was pretty practical, but it was still fun and I did get a few things I hadn't expected to find.
What about you? Did you shop on Black Friday? If so, what kind of finds did you get?
Did you eat any of these foods at Thanksgiving dinner?
Since it's a busy time and an eating time, here's an easy poll to take in the left column. It's okay to pick multiple answers as long as they don't conflict. You can also leave a comment about a particularly favorite dish, if you wish.Morgan
Still Time Plus Giving Thanks
Still time to let us know below when you read.Today, at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/ I'm giving thanks for the gift of writing. What about you?
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I suddenly realized your promoting book was about the ONLY one I did not own or had not read - not sure how that's possible, but just ordered it this morning and looking forward to some great tips!
And yes, marketing of those old books. That's one of the glories of the net generation. Books don't have to die.
Speaking of crazy and great books. Have you read Lambs. I just started--may even have the title wrong. But it's an amazin book. And talk about research!!!
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