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Find  Carolyn's Individual Books and Audios Here:

Frugal Book Promoter
Frugal Editor
Great Book Proposals
This Is the Place, A Novel
Harkening (Short Stories)
Tracings and Other Poetry
Published Shorter Works
Audio Handbooks for Writers

 

To subscribe to the calendar for Authors' Coalition's planned events from book fairs to Branson's famous Veteran's Week click on the Google Calendar Logo.

 

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Fair Booth Endorsements

". . . the UCLA booth [at the LA Times Festival of Books sponsored by Authors' Coalition] 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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 "AC is the current that propels your writing career."  ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Authors'    Coalition Founder

 

You will find at least one promotion, writing or tech tip on every page on this site. Sometimes you'll find, two or three! Happy browsing and collecting!

 

Go straight to a page that will give you the skinny on all the levels of Authors' Coalition Membership!

 

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Join Dotsie Bregel, founder of the National Association of Baby Boomer Women and Boomer Women Speak, forums on her site including a forum for writers who connect, encourage and support one another every day.

 

Talk Radio for Authors – Getting Interviews Across the U.S. and Canada by Francine Silverman (Infinity Publishing 2007)simplifies the process of matching guest to radio show.

 ISBN # 0-7414-3787-2

 

 

 

 

 

Promotion Tip

 

Get a list of other book fairs and trade shows. Put Authors' Coalition's cross-promotional ideas to work for you!  Check our our "No More Hum-Drum Book Fairs" blog.

 

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

  

 

 

 

Better Writing, Better Support with Authors'Coalition-Sponsored Events and Other Services

 Calling All Authors!  Participate in Authors' Coalition at so many levels!

Start with our fairs and event booths:

Then our newsletters and blogs:

Learn more about author-participation here! 

 

Learn more about the FREE Muse Online Writers Conference Carolyn cosponsors with Lea Schizas (in conjunction with Authors' Coalition).

 

 

Scroll down for AC membership information and fair attendee information.

 

 

Dear Authors:

 

What we can do ourselves, we can do better together. A loose version of Authors' Coalition began a few years ago as a way for several authors to display books in the same booth. 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 added value like crazy!  A giveaway CD to the press and to readers!  A catalogue of titles to booksellers!  Making cross promotion an essential part of the package rather than a casual suggestion! And, of course, learning from each other, networking with each other!  Click here to learn how to sign up for this opportunity.

 

Then 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 our 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. Soon "Sharing with Writers" will be our official Authors Coalition newsletter and there will be special perks for existing subscribers/members.

 

Of course, an added advantage is that you have the ear of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't.  This book, a USA Book News "Best Professional Book of 2004," 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

 

So come on in.  Browse around.  Join Authors Coalition and partake of the advantages with more--always more--to come!

 

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Your Frugal Book Promoter

And Founder of Authors' Coalition

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 Authors' Coalition and Red Engine Press 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 Authors' Coalition booth at the LA Times Festival of Books Fair 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 the Authors' Coalition/Red Engine Press booth a West Hollywood Book Fair.

Unlike many fairs were books are massed, AC booth 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.

Learn more about Authors' Coalition.

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Also Branson, MO, Veterans' Week

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Slide Show: An Example of an Authors' Coalition Service

A slide show that AC and members participating in the slide show use at presentations throughout the US. Please keep clicking for more books when the Authors' Coalition logo comes up. For a quotation on participation in the show, contact Joyce Faulkner at katieseyes@aol.com.

Please Visit Our Authors' Coalition Site!

Here is what we can help you with:

Exposure! Ads, published reviews, a bookstore linked to Amazon, a place to post your media releases and tons more...with more on the way!

Support! We offer help getting reviews, writing and sending out media releases, ditto for query letters and more!

Information! We have a free e-book page including books on promotion, writing, and tech!

Resources! We have lists, some free, some at a small fee. We have recommendations for book fairs, conferences, illustrators, publishers and we're growing all the time.

Selected Events! The LA Times Festival of Books, West Hollywood Book Fair and Branson Missouri are a few! And we have developed ways for all authors to benefit, even if they can't attend. See the guidelines above for the LA Times Festival of Books.

 

Silver memberships (the lowest level of membership but shiny and bright with advantages as a new-minted silver dollar!). For $20 receive:

 

  • Subscription to "Sharing with Writers" where authors can brag a bit and learn about everything from book promotion to writing craft. (Non-members may subscribe at no charge by sending an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to HoJoNews@aol.com.)
  • Subscription to Yarnspinners and Wordweavers.  You can announce your new books, show off your cover art, discuss issues of import to writers, get credits, use pdf for media kits, and just enjoy.  (Nonmembers may subscribe at no charge to this newsletter by sending an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to nate@redenginepress.com )
  • Access to exclusive support materials
  • Access to reasonably priced AC site ads
  • Access to AC-sponsored book fair booths
  • Opportunity for cross-promotional projects such as The Complete Writer's Journal*
  • Use of the professional AC logo
  • Access to a blog focused on making book fairs work for you
  • Posting with author picture or book cover picture in our AC bookstore
  • Your favorite review posted on the AC site
  • A no-cost list of author-friendly bookstores
  • Access to the AC Speaker's Bureau
  • Access to member pricing for AC products & services.
  • And now, Ta da! Receive a free ad for your book in one issue of  Kathe and Ray Gogolewski's The Fiction Flyer.  Subscribe to this newsletter and see a copy of it here.

The Magic of Cross-Promotion: Authors' Coalition's The Complete Writer's Journal


Online Videos by Veoh.com

 

Authors' Coalition Directors

  • Joyce Faulkner, publisher Red Engine Press

Sponsoring Organizations and Authors:

 

"4RV Publishing works one on one with authors and artists."

 

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.

Purchase and find all the audios for writers at Double Dragon Publishing.

 

Authors' Coalition http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com"Careers that are not fed die as readily as any living organism given no sustenance." ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson

 

 

 

This author is founder and a proud member of Authors' Coalition.    

(Directors: Joyce Faulkner and Pat Avery)

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Studio photography by Uriah Carr

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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