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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.
- Do You Have A Website?
- 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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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
Passing It Forward
I'd like to thank Whisky Creek Press for introducing me to this new ning group! I know many of their authors have read my first in the How To Do It Frugally Series of books and hope they will follow through with a book that any publisher should love, THE FRUGAL EDITOR. It's coming. The big date is Oct. 1. (-:
Very best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Posted on August 2, 2007 at 5:00pm —
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Book Signing Today at Frontier Days Marketplace
If any of you are near Arlington Heights, please stop by and say hi. I'll be autographing Two Wrongs and Girl of My Dreams Saturday and Sunday from 10-6 at Recreation Park in the Frontier Days Marketplace in Booth 124 at Frontier Days.I'm also handing out invitations for my book launch party for Killer Career for
August 16, 1-4pm. at the Arlington Heights Historical Museum, 110 W. Fremont,
Arlington Heights, IL. (You don't need an official invitation to come. It's
just good for a reminder to stick on your refrigerator or somewhere)
Other signing at the booth are romantic suspense author, Margot Justes, YA author, June Sproat and contemporary Western romance author, Debra St. John.
As most of you already know, Two Wrongs is a romantic suspense, Girl of My Dreams is a romantic comedy and the upcoming release, Killer Career is a romantic suspense.
Hope to see some of you over there.
Morgan Mandel
Let the Fun Begin!
Fortunately, we were set free from work today at 3:00. Now I can catch up on a few things before heading over to the Festival tonight to see a rock band called ARRA at the Frontier Stage.We have some DVDs at home from the library. We may just be able to watch one or two before we go, since the band doesn't start until 9:15. Or, we may want to get pver there a bit early and eat desert, though we shouldn't.
Last night I had a hamburger at home, but at the Festival I could't resist a DQ Reese Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard. They've got pies, cheese cake, ice cream, brownies, and Blizzards. I wish I could eat them all,but I'm being bad enough! I have no willpower when it comes to good food.
What about you? Do you cave in and eat special treats at special events?
Catching My Breath
See why I'm catching my breath at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.comThanks,
Morgan
How Do You Sell Books?
How do you sell books? I know I've asked this question before in various forms, but now that I'm coming up to the date of Killer Career's release on August 15, I'm wondering what's the most effective approach.
Tell me, please. What do you do to sell books?
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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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Carolyn
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