Awards

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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!

Carolyn sponsors the Noble (Not Nobel!) Prize for literary efforts that explore the human condition, use exemplary English or experiment with it. She eschews titles that have already won prestigious prizes or appear on bestseller lists. In other words, she wants to build lists each year that feature works that deserve more attention than they're getting. Contact Carolyn for information on submitting a nomination. Go to MyShelf to read her Back to Literature column where she announces her awards each January.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, the author of USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, and Kristie Leigh Maguire, multi-published author and owner of Star Publish, named 13 authors as the winners of their "Reach for the Stars! Best Frugal Promoter Contest 2005."

This contest was designed to keep giving. The winners' promotional plans have been included in Reach For The Stars! Award-Winning Promotional Plans To Jumpstart Your Branding Career, an e-book that was published by Star Publish and released in early 2006. The e-book is available, free of charge, to other authors searching for ways to bring their titles before the public at Authors' Coalition. Click on the "Free E-books" button.

Professional and Writing Awards

Pauline Field, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, and Lynn White Shelby celebrate Carolyn's American Business Women's Association award for Outstanding Woman at the Embassy Suites in Sept. 2007. Lynn nominated Carolyn for the award.

The Frugal Editor

WINNER of the Best Marketing Category

2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

FINALIST in the How To Category

2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

The Frugal Book Promoter

USA Book News Best Professional Book of 2004

Other Awards

Reviewers' Choice Award: This is the Place was named first place, Sime-Gen’s mainstream category, spring 2001.

Red Sky Press Award: 2001, judged by Rose A. O. Kleidon, Prof. Emeritus of English at University of Akron.

Masters Literary Award: Finalist 2000.

New Millennium Literary Award: Semifinalist, 1400 entries, June, 2001.

Mille Club: Honored by AmErica House, Baltimore, Md. for sales and promotion.

Preditors and Editors Readers Poll: This is the Place was named Top 10 Novels for 2001 and Top 10 novels for 2002. Harkening was named Top 10 literary books for 2003.

NUW’s Award of Excellence: Editor: Kristie Leigh Maguire.

MyShelf.com: Ten Best Reads: This is the Place, 2002. Also The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was featured in 2005.

Women WritingOnLine Award: Honorable Mention, first person essay “Life Begins at 60.”

Zino.com: Award for Outstanding Article, May, 2003: “Taking a Dose of What’s Good for You.”

Book Crazy Radio Network: Award celebrating 100 review broadcasts.

Long Story Short: Poem of the Month, “Shelf Life,” March 2204.

#1 Best Sellers: EBookAd.com, The Frugal Book Promoter, Aug. 2004. Also the #1 bestseller at Starbooks for 2005, 2006.

Reviewer’s Choice Masterpiece: selected by reviewer Lori Soard for WordMuseum.

Readers’ Award: Sponsored by The Pedestal Magazine for poem, “Olvera Street Tutorial.” Editor, John Amen.

The Compulsive Reader, The Year's 10 Best Reads of 2004, for Tracings.

The Military Writers' Society of America, Silver Award of Excellence, 2006, for Tracings.

Readers Views Literary Award, winner in the publishing category for The Frugal Editor. Sample Stickers

New Generations Indie Book Award -- Finalist -- for The Frugal Editor.http://www.indiebookawards.com/2008_winners_and_finalists.php

Winner New Generations Indie Marketing Award -- for The Frugal Editor.'s marketing campaign. http://www.indiebookawards.com/2008_winners_and_finalists.php

AUTHOR-OF-THE-MONTH AND BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH HONORS

Tomrbooks: Calley Moore, Editor.

Aspiring Authors: Diana Redman, Editor.

Word Thunder: Sarah Mankowski, Editor.

My Shelf: Brenda Weeaks, Editor.

Authors’ Cove: First Featured Writer of the Month. Erika Michell, Editor.

Queen Jaw Jaw: Featured Author, Georgia Richardson, Editor.

MichelleDunn.com: The Frugal Book Promoter is her Writers' Resource Book-of-the-Month for June 2005

Speechless The Magazine, Featured poet, with poems from Tracings,

Poems for You: Tracings was a featured Book of Poetry, Kristin Johnson, Editor.

Writing News: "Sharing with Writers" newsletter honored. Editor Belinda Hughes.

The Frugal Editor

USA Book News Best Writing/Publishing Book of 2007 and Reader Views Choice Award, 2008

The Frugal Editor reached top ten in sales at Amazon.com.

The Frugal Editor won USA Book News Best Book award for its category, publishing and writing and the ReaderViews award for best publishing book.

Carolyn is featured on San Diego's Who's Who as an honorary member the San Diego writers' group. www.wordsd.com.

Tip:

How, in a bookstores full of thousands of titles, does a reader choose yours? Maybe because a little medal lives on your book cover that tells a browser that there's a good reason to expect your book may be better than the average bear.

How do you convince an editor that you are newsworthy, that you are credible. Perhaps they'll be impressed because of the awards by your name.

Now, here's the big secret. It often makes no difference how prestigious the award is. Casual readers may not understand the difference between a Pulitzer and a Pushcart or a Preditor and Editor's Poll. Editors (other than book editors) don't either. All they know is they have eight column inches to fill and your award may convince them to fill them with something about you.

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

Leon Mayer, longtime officer of Friends of the Glendale Library, presents Carolyn with California Assembly Certificate of Recognition at an event in which she introduced two emerging poets, Sona Ovasapyan and Christine Alexanians. She holds several other certificates of recognition from various state officials.

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.

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

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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

Important Resources

Book Proposal Help

Former book acquisitions editor Terry Whalin says, "editors and publishers don't read manuscripts. They read book proposals. In Book Proposals That Sell: 21 Secrets to Speed Your Success, you learn the inside scoop to achieve your dreams." I highly recommend it.

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Promotion Services

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