Editing & Publicity Services

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Endorsement

Carolyn is a naturally gifted editor, teacher and workshop facilitator. She creates a safe, positive atmosphere in which she shares her deep knowledge of craft. Like a brilliant surgeon with a great bed-side manner, she's able to work well with different kinds of writers. When I receive compliments about good, clean writing, I always say, "I learned that from Carolyn!" ~ Emily Heebner, critique group member

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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!

Resources

For lots more links for reading and writing stuff, visit my Sharing with Writers and Readers blog. and my Frugal Smart and Tuned-In Editor blog.

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For free e-books on subjects from promotion to samples of how to make promotional e-books work for you, check out the Free E-book Page at Authors' Coalition.

Please click on my Google Calendar button to learn more about my upcoming UCLA Extension Writers' Program classes, my writers' conference and book fair appearances and more.

Let Carolyn Personally Help You Put Your Best Book Forward!

EDITING SERVICES

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the award-winning Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success and the award-winning Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward To Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success takes a limited number of editing projects. She provides a full-service edit for fiction and poetry only.

Carolyn helps Lance G. Johnson, author of Everything Asians Need to Know About Americans, A to Z edit his final submission

It includes:

Typo and grammar corrections.
Help with dialogue.
Structure analysis.
Full annotations accompany suggestions so that the author can make his or her choices to accept or reject with confidence

She also writes media releases and query letters.

Prices quoted on request.

References on request.

(Carolyn protects the privacy of her clients. No names are revealed without permission.)

Credentials

Publishing

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered are both multiple award-winners. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, is also an award-winner. For a list of awards see the awards page on this site.
Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. For a more complete list see the other publications list on this site.
She has written forewords for books including giftbooks published by Andrews-McMeel.
Her public relations background includes New York PR agency experience where she wrote media releases for American and French couturiers.
Her freelance and other writing credits include, Pasadena Star News, Salt Lake Tribune, Glendale News-Press, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Ingenue, Home Décor Buyer, Oak Park Press, and many more.

Teaching and Speaking

Carolyn is an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and has shared her expertise at venues like San Diego State's world renowned Writers' Conference, Call to Arts! EXPO, Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, Sinclair Lewis Writer's Conference, Association of Mormon Letters' Conference, West Hollywood's Book Fair, Las Vegas Writers' Conference and more. Subjects range from writing sparkling dialogue to book promotion.
She is the author of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success.
She is cosponsor of The Muse Online Writing Conference.
She cofounded a critique group for the Glendale Library system (CA)

Education

Carolyn was graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with a BA in English literature.
She studied English and writing at Arizona State University, the University of Utah, UCLA, Herzen University (Russia), Cambridge University (UK) and Charles University (Czech Republic).
She earned UCLA Extension's Certificate of Completion from the Instructor Development Program, 2005.

Other:

Carolyn is the founder of Authors' Coalition and editor of their newsletter, Sharing with Writers as well as a blog that helps authors turn a dull book fair booth into a sizzling success.
Learn more on this site, at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com and www.authorsden.com/carolynhowardjohnson .

Editing Tip

Excerpted from The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success.

Literally Vs. Figuratively

"My threshold for annoyance is crossed when people slur the word literally and make it "litally." As I was writing this book, a publisher reminded me that frequently literally is misused in proposals when the writer means figuratively. June Casagrande, grammar guru, used this as an example for how not to do it: 'They were literally glued to their seats.' June, with her ever-present humor, notes that someone would have had to applied glue if that situation were, indeed, literal."

PROMOTION SERVICES

Carolyn consults with clients in person or by telephone. Give her an hour, she'll give you a promotion campaign that fits your pocketbook and your personality. E-mail her for her rates.

Carolyn also coaches authors through the publishing process of their books. She'll hold hands and give advice your mother never could. E-mail her for rates.

For a wide variety of other editing, promotion and writing services go to the Authors' Coalition writing and services page.

Carolyn Also Tutors: Accent Reduction, American Culture, English, Writing

Inspiration and Learning at the Getty Villa, Malibu California

Alexa Gregorian, 5th Grade

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.

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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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

Books and Audios on Writing Carolyn has Written, Edited or Contributed to:

EDITING SERVICES

It includes:

Typo and grammar corrections.

Help with dialogue.

Structure analysis.

Full annotations accompany suggestions so that the author can make his or her choices to accept or reject with confidence

She also writes media releases and query letters.

Prices quoted on request.

References on request.

(Carolyn protects the privacy of her clients. No names are revealed without permission.)

Credentials