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Fair Booth Endorsements

". . . the UCLA booth [at the LA Times Festival of Books was a beautiful accomplishment, something I felt honored to be associated with."~ Kevin Gerard Kilpatrick
The Crossworlds Series

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" It was a good day. I sold all the TATOS that I brought, and a few of my husband's books [Ray Gogolewski]. Most of all, the networking was great. I made a few good contacts, including the one with Annette Fix [Editor of WOW! Women on Writing]. She's a kick! I loved meeting her and everyone else who was there."~Kathe Gogolewski

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Get a list of other book fairs and trade shows. Put Carolyn's cross-promotional ideas to work for you! Check out her Sharing with Writers blog, named to Writer's Digest 101 Best Websties.

Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or tech on every page of this Web site.

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How-to books for writers, reference books and books of inspiration for writers only! Any one will make a great companion to The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor! It includes a list of helpful free e-books and some CDs you can learn tons from, too! Click Here

Contests you can count on, and articles on how to promote with contest. Click Here.

List of book fairs, tradeshows, conferences and conventions. Your aid to planning ahead. Click Here

Writers' Conferences: The Big and the Cozy. A list of book fairs, tradeshows, conferences and conventions. Your aid to planning ahead. Click Here

Writers' programs at US universities. (New Master of Science in Publishing listed!) Click Here

FREE Muse Online Writers Conference.Click Here

Digital (print-on-demand) printers .Click Here

Major review journals--some that review POD-published books. Click Here

Better Writing, Better Support with HowToDoItFrugally Cross-Promotion and Events

Planned fairs and event booths for 2009:

Official LA Times Festival of Books Site
Veteran's Week at Branson, MO

Then HowToDoItFrugally newsletters and blogs:

Associated blogs: Learn more about our blogs including one that lets authors extend the life of their favorite reviews at no cost.
Associated newsletters: Learn more about newsletters that will help you.

Learn more about author-participation here!

Learn more about the FREE Muse Online Writers Conference Carolyn cosponsors with Lea Schizas.

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Dear Authors:

What we can do ourselves, we can do better together. I began by taking booth space at fairs when I first wrote my novel This Is the Place. With experience I learned that booths fare better when more than one author participates, preferably many! And booths are more frugal that way! Over several years of beautiful book fair experiences to dreadful book fair sales, several of us determined that book fairs are about public relations and public relations is about exposure and branding. As soon as we got ourselves on the right track our process bloomed!

We came up with more. "Stuff" that might help our authors promote if they choose to--at the fair or elsewhere. Car door magnets. Won't people in Wichita be impressed with an author who is "featured at the LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS?" Calendars, fliers and other support products. A place to blog and learn blogging. We're keeping the cost to a minimum on these and even starving authors gotta know that there is rarely a completely free lunch. (-:

And then there is my newsletter. "Sharing with Writers" is plumb full of promoting ideas, opportunities to promote your own book(s) and even an occasional writing idea or two. To subscribe, send an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to HoJoNews@aol.com.

Of course, much of this came along after The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was published. This book, a USA Book News "Best Professional Book of 2004" and and a Book Publicists of Southern California Irwin Award winner has earned rave reviews from its readers. It is a labor of love--sharing what I learned as a PR professional and what I learned promoting my own first two books: This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered and even a book of poetry Tracings, the hardest of all genres to promote and my new one, She Wore Emerald Then.

So come on in. Browse around. Join Authors me in cross-promoting my book at fairs with more to come!

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Your Frugal Book Promoter

And Frugal Editor

Watch for Next Year's LA Times Festival of Books!

You can see what fun we have!

Get a free book with a purchase of a book from our booth
Lots to learn! Lots of resources! Lots of new reading!
Nifty baskets of giveaways like participant Kathe Gogolewski's at right (2006) or the Satrapi collection of books from Christine Alexanians in 2008.
Great food at vendors just behind our booth!
And it's the place where important editors, publishers and more! meet! Below you'll see Carolyn with Nancy Mills, guru of TheSpiritedWoman.com and Annette Fix, editor at WOW! Women on Writing.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson at our cross-promotion booth in April of 2007. That's Erica Stux, one of our signing authors, on the right. She's taking a breather. (Photo by Janet Goliger, author I Need to be Safe, I'm worth it!)

Online Videos by Veoh.com Permalink: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v139909408fNTSF4P

A retrospective of the 2008 booth at the LA Times Festival of Books fair and some other booths we've co-oped including fair and booth endorsements.

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West Hollywood Book Fair, 2007

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Alexa Gregorian (AC Booth Volunteer) and Janet Goliger, AC Member Booth Partner at our booth at a West Hollywood Book Fair.

Unlike many fairs were books are massed, our books are given their own stands, a place for order forms or books marks and even special lighting.

Learn more about the West Hollywood Book Fair.

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Also Branson, MO, Veterans' Week

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Slide Show: An Example of One of a HowToDoItFrugally Cross Promotion

A slide show that fellow authors throughout the US participate in.. Please keep clicking for more books. For a quotation on participation in the slide show, contact Joyce Faulkner at katieseyes@aol.com.

Please browse this site for more helps for authors.

The Magic of Cross-Promotion: Red Engine Press's The Complete Writer's Journal

Online Videos by Veoh.com

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Red Engine Press
HowToDoItFrugally.com
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RV Publishing
Be the Star You Are

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Purchase THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER as a thick, full-size e-book priced to accommodate the budgets of starving students and authors at Star Publish.

Purchase THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER and THE FRUGAL EDITOR in trade paperback at Amazon. The Amazon Short, THE GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION BOOK PROPOSAL, too!

Purchase THIS IS THE PLACE, HARKENING and TRACINGS at Amazon.

Purchase CHERISHED PULSE at the Compulsive Reader.

"Careers that are not fed die as readily as any living organism given no sustenance." ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson

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Logo by Lloyd King

Future Plans for How To Do It Frugally Series: The Frugal Amazon Promoter, The Frugal Retailer Promotes, The Frugal Author Builds an Agent-Friendly Package

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