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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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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
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
For Immediate Release
Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
E-Mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
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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Are you ready?
Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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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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