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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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Opportunity for Readers to Hear Authors, Authors to Read on the Radio (-:

Lillian Cauldwell and Carolyn Howard-Johnson Partner To Offer Fiction Reading Opportunity


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 —

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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 —

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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 —

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Frugal Editor Wins USA Book News Best Book Award

USA BOOK NEWS NAMES CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON'S


FRUGAL EDITOR BEST PUBLISHING BOOK IN

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Posted on November 7, 2007 at 5:10pm —

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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.

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At 2:12am on September 28, 2009, R. C. BECKOM said…
I can define with that one, what's that saying? oh, " Brilliance Minds Think Alike" Welcome to the Club
At 5:52am on July 9, 2008, L. Diane Wolfe said…
Good day, Carolyn!
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!
At 1:35pm on March 14, 2008, Carolyn Howard-Johnson said…
Oh, thank you. I can see you are interested in craft and I think you'll love The Frugal Editor. My novel took me three years including rewrites. And that was without research. Everything in it came from my head full-blown. Memories. I agree. The next should come easier. I'd like to go back and rewrite, in fact, but I don't believe it doing that. That we grow is a good thing but we also need to kee moving forward. My opinion. (-: Can't keep rehashing the same old stroy. (-:
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!!!

Best,
Carolyn
At 1:22pm on March 14, 2008, Marvin D. Wilson said…
I agree on the time commitment. I wrote my memoir in about 3 months. Another month of editing and it was good to go. My first novel, OWEN FIDDLER, took me 9 months to write, 3 more months to re-write, and another 3 months of editing before I felt it was polished enough and ready for the presses. I definitely grew as a writer in the process, though. I think subsequent novels will come easier because of the learning curve I went through. Now on to marketing and the use of YOUR valuable and informative books!
At 10:35am on March 7, 2008, R. C. BECKOM said…
hi carolyn , nice site you have here .
At 5:02pm on March 4, 2008, Carolyn Howard-Johnson said…
Not right now but as the founder of Authors' Coalition and editor of a newsletter that goes out to more than a thousand authors, I think we should talk. It's easier, though, by regular e-mail. hojonews@aol.com. I should be able to get you up on my Resources for Writers page of www.howtodoitfrugally.com, too. (-:
Best,
Carolyn
At 4:28pm on March 4, 2008, Aidana WillowRaven said…
Thanks for stopping by my page. And yes, I do design covers. I also do children's book illustration & graphic design. I don't suppose you are looking for a freelancer?

Aidana WillowRaven
At 10:44pm on February 21, 2008, Carolyn Howard-Johnson said…
Good to hear from you, Kira.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson
www.howtodoitfrugally.com
At 10:40pm on February 21, 2008, Kira Chase said…
Just Stopping By To Say Hello!

Kira
At 8:41am on January 23, 2008, Kathryne Kennedy said…
Congrats on the USA best book award, Carolyn!
 
 

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Today, I stumbled upon a neat one that does virtual tummy tucks. They show a man with a hefty belly. After a few magic software adjustments, he's looking mighty lean.

Hmm, maybe I'll get out some of my photos and see about a tummy tuck here and there. It's a painless operation. All it takes is some brain strain and a few clicks here and there.

Would you also like to be a patient? Who knows, maybe I could get a whole waiting room going. I promise not to charge as much as a regular plastic surgeon. (G)

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Cell Phone or Email?

I can't help but marvel at all the people who walk down the street or drive with a cell phone stuck to the ear. Whatever do they have to talk about for so long?

It's particularly mystifying to me, since I rarily use my  iPhone as a phone. I take photos with it, check my email, and do all sorts of other things instead. The DH and I communicate back and forth on my cell while I'm at work, I'll call other members of the family about plans, or I'll use the phone for long distance calling, but that's about it. I always have a huge amount of units rolled over to the next month.

On the other hand, I'm constantly on the computer using the email feature to communicate with friends, promote my books, arrange book signings, learn all sorts of things, swap jokes, and various other reasons. Somehow email seems more civilized. I'm not demanding someone instantly talk to me. I'm allowing that person to respond when it's convenient, with the understanding that I'm receiving the same courtesy.

Some people say that email has taken away from the personalization of communicating. Maybe, but I tend to believe that even though I don't hear that other person's voice, I'm actually sharing a lot more. I don't know about you, but I tend to reveal more about myself when I write than when I speak.

It's your turn. Tell us, do you prefer cell phone communication over email?  Or, maybe you use them equally?

Facebook's New Design - Do You Like It?

I opened up Facebook this morning and got confused. Overnight apparently a remodeling job was going on. The Daily Herald Business Section this morning said the new design is meant to streamline navigation and also let the games and apps stand out more.

I'm still trying to figure out whether or not I like it. What about you?  What's your take on Facebook's new design?

How Silly Can They Be

Twice in the same day I saw women walking Downtown wearing shoulder bags facing their backs. I also saw women wearing boots with high pointy heels. It's winter in Illinois, snowy, icy and slippery. How silly can they be?

Guys are not excempt from doing silly things. What about putting house or car keys in the coat pocket and leaving the coat in another room at a party? keys have a habit of falling out. Coats have been known to go off with the wrong owners.

When you write, do you let your characters do silly things? Do they do them as a matter of habit or as a mistake? Depending on the answer and the skill of the author, the reader can look on your character as ridiculous or endearing. It's fun to create a quirky character, but the challenge is in not making the person seem too dumb.

What about you? As a reader, do you enjoy it when a character does silly things? What would seem too silly?

As a writer, do you let one of your characters do silly things? On a regular basis? Maybe only once, but it turns out to be once too many?

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Anyway, the book is coming along. Rascal will be a star on paper one of these days. She already is one in the neighborhood. Not a walk goes by that someone doesn't say how cute she is. Don't think she doesn't know it. She's a con artist. She works that cuteness to her advantage all the time. That's how she gets those extra treats.

I've got to head for work now. We need the money to keep those treats coming!

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