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With the
Frugal Editor as a desk
companion for the
Frugal Book
Promoter, you'll have
what you need to know about publishing at your fingertips--whether your
publishing on-you-own or traditionally.
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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! Happybrowsing and collecting!
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Endorsements
"Carolyn Howard-Johnson has done it again! Whether you're writing your
first book or tenth, The Frugal Editor, Put Your Best Book
Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success is a must-read."
~
Tim Bete, director,
Erma Bombeck
Writers' Workshop and author, In The Beginning ... There Were No
Diapers
All Carolyn's Frugal Books Are
Available on Kindle:
Tip
Your great
publicist--whether you're doing it yourself, hiring
one or are lucky enough to have one assigned by your
publisher--will appreciate having you as a partner
and avid advocate. Learn everything you can about
marketing, publicity and promotion. (And, yes, there
is a difference!)
Find tips on writing, promotion or
tech on every page of this Web site.
Best Book Award for The Frugal Book
Promoter (2004) and The Frugal Editor (2008)Finalist for A Retailer's
Guide and She Wore Emerald Then, a poetry chapbook, 2009.
Reader Views Literary Award for The
Frugal Editor
New Generation Award for Marketing and Finalist for
The Frugal Editor
Book Publicists of Southern California's
Irwin Award
Military
Writers Award of
Excellence
for Tracings, A
Chapbook of Poetry.
And more than a dozen other awards for
Carolyn's novel, short story collection and poetry. See the
awards page on this site.
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Presenter at
These Conferences Book Fairs and Tradeshows (A Sampling)
Presenter 2009
Presenter, 2008, 09, 10
Presenter, 2007
National Span College, 2002
Fellows presenter, 2007, 08
Co-sponsor and presenter, 2007, 08, 09,
10
University of Dayton Erma Bombeck Writers' Conference, 2006,
2008
Sisters in Crime,
Pasadena, 2009
Tip
Don't advertise your
book. Get others to do it for you. It's called "publicity"
and it's FREE!
Find at least one tip on writing,
promotion or tech on every page of this Web site.
Your List of Book Publicists
Carolyn's first book in the
HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, The Frugal Book Promoter,
will help writers do this for
themselves.
Some authors who do not have tight
publishing budgets or have very little time may still want to hire
professional help.
In that case, The Frugal Book
Promoter will help them partner better with a publicist.
Join Editor Yvonne Perry and I on her
Writers in the Sky podcast, "Welcome to Conversations
with Editors." You'll find other podcast
collaborations and interviews with Yvonne and me on her
blog, too.
Find at least one tip on writing,
promotion or tech on every page of this Web site.
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! How-to books for
writers: Click Here
Contests you can count on, and articles on how to promote with
contest. Contests: Click Here.
Writers'
Conferences: The Big and the Cozy. A
list of book
fairs, tradeshows, conferences and conventions. Your aid to planning
ahead.
Writers' Conferences: Click Here
The Non Runners Marathon Guide for
Women by Dawn Dais; Eating For Beauty by David
Wolfe, Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads,
and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration by Audacia
Ray
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by
Barton Gellman, Fire Breathing Liberal: How I
Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport
of Congress by Rep. Robert Wexler, Souled Out:
Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious
Right by E. J. Dionne, Jr.
Body, Mind & Spirit,
religion & spirituality, self-help
Finding the Deep River Within: A
Woman's Guide to Recovering Balance & Meaning in
Everyday Life by Abby Seixas, The Majesty of Your
Loving: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's by
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
Mermaids In The Basement by Michael
Lee West, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
by Susan Gregg Gilmore, Blue Cotton Gown: A
Midwife's Memoir by Patricia Harman
Non-fiction including
health and fitness; cooking, gardening and other
lifestyle; art, architecture and design; parenting
and children's; and pop culture
Tony Duquette by Hutton Wilkinson,
The Healthiest Meals on Earth by Jonny Bowden, Wacky
Packages by The Topps Company
Ethics for the New Millennium by His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, Last Child in the Woods by
Richard Louv, The Gourmet Cookbook edited by Ruth
Reichl and John Willoughby
The Spectrum (Paperback Edition) by
Dr. Dean Ornish MD; YOU Being Beautiful by Drs.
Michael Roizen MD & Dr. Mehmet Oz MD; The Civility
Solution: What To Do When People are Rude by Pier
Forni Ph.D.
Commercial/genre fiction, including
women's fiction and mystery, suspense and thrillers;
memoirs; children's and young adult fiction;
Christian fiction and nonfiction
Online
True Colors by Kristin Hannah, Jack
and the Box by Art Spiegelman, Girls Like Us by
Sheila Weller
you with
your publishing plans
but this list will give you plenty of leads to research
if you want a
full-service publicist.
Here are links on this site where
you will learn more about Carolyn
Howard-Johnson's books, audios, and more:
Audios
I coproduced to share the ins 'n' outs of writing, book promotion
and marketing on the net. Retailers who are perfecting their online
promotion skills will want to work on their writing skills,
too--beyond business letters and advertising copy.
The Frugal Book Promoter,
my way to share the pitfalls of publishing with other authors in
hope they won't fall into the same potholes I did. Retailers will
find essential marketing skills like writing media releases here--at
least until I get to a book on these specifically for retailers. (-;
The
Frugal Editor, second in the HowToDoItFrugally series,
sharing my system for keep editing gremlins at bay. Retailers will
find great editing an essential tool as they develop their online
promotion campaigns.
