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ReaderViews is your one-stop spot! Readers will find great new book reviews! Writers will find help with publicity, video, literary awards, networking and a proposal service.

 

Endorsements

 

 

"I am waiting on answers to the proposals I sent out for my 4th book, PALMS READ IN LOVE & LIGHT.  I used almost every trick (I mean technique) in your Amazon Short [The Great First Impression Book Proposal], too. I hope a traditional publisher takes it . . .   ." ~  Myrna Lou Goldbaum, Palmist/Psychic/Author

 

 

{Carolyn Howard-Johnson is} an incessant promoter who develops and shares new approaches for book promotion. ~ Marilyn Ross, Founder, Small Publishers N. America and author The Complete Guide to Self Publishing

 

"In the wake of the Erma Bombeck conference, I'm finding The Frugal Editor every bit as pithy and humane as The Frugal Book Promoter. You really find the heart of a sometimes disheartening business! By all means, keep more of my gremlins at bay with your editing handout!" ~ Christopher Yeager, Raku Publishing

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Honors and Awards:

 

For The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In-Editor blog.

 

 

Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Sharing with Writers blog.

 

Best Book Award for The Frugal Book Promoter (2004) and The Frugal Editor (2008).

 

  

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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Find Free Content that Entertains and Educates

This page offers innovative ideas for those who want to improve their book sales and writing careers. It offers free content to editors, producers, webmasters and others seeking clear, concise articles that won't put their readers into nap mode.

• What if you created a webpage using excerpts from the applauded Frugal Book Promoter and Frugal Editor? 

• Imagine the credibility afforded your web or print-based media with the respected name of the HowToDoItFrugally series attached to it!

• Suppose you put the added power of the name Carolyn Howard-Johnson behind your project.

• Imagine that all this requires merely a byline and tagline, something you would do anyway to give your articles the credibility they deserve. Of course, logos, book cover art and thumbnail photos are also available at no charge. Just ask.

Now that works!

Just click the titles below that will entice your readers, copy and publish. Please use the bylines and taglines included with each article. If you need to edit or shorten the material, please seek the approval of the author. If you don't see here what you need, contact Carolyn Howard-Johnson for something that will. She has other free content and works freelance as well.

Reminder: Let me know if you one or more of my articles. Give me a link. That way I can give you a little extra promotion.  It keeps the promotion cycle gong and benefits both of us!

Fiction and Poetry

• The Honest Answer, an excerpt from the multi award-winning novel This Is the Place. 3,400 words.

Quotations on Marketing, PR, Writing Craft and More

• 45 Quotations from the Author of The Frugal Book Promoter  Pick and choose one or many from this list of quotations. Please use the attribution provided for each.

On Promotion

• New! Cookbooks and E-Books Equal Promotion Success 884 words

• Branding: What Selling Really Is  1,084 Words

• Amazon Is an Author's Promotion Partner  1,266 Words

• TV and Radio: Your Stepping Stones to Credibility  703 Words

• Publish to Promote; Promote to Share 948 Words

• How to Get Harvard's Bookstore to Stock Your Book 849 Words

• What's Good for Proctor and Gamble May Be Good for Writers  888 Words

• 10 Ways to Sell Books on Amazon   818 Words

• The Big Buzz on Social Networking: An Interview with Jennifer Akers

• Book Fair Blues? 12 Ways to Make Book Booths Better 702 Words

• Survive Book Expo: Tips--A Baker's Dozen of Them-- to Avoid BEA Bunions

• Ten Marketing Myths that Can Kill Your Book and Career (And Their Remedies!)

• Two in One Book Marketing: Marketing with Numbers and Six Big No-Nos for Dealing with Editors

   

On Editing

• Why You -- Yes, You Who Aced English -- Need an Editor  1,461 Words

• Let Tom Swift Inform Your Writing - 456 Words

• Seven Easy Ways to Keep Dialogue Sharp - 478 Words

• Using "I" As a Conceit - 498 Words

• Learning To Love Passive Construction

On Publishing

• Six Things I Learned from Reading an Inflight Magazine - 453 words

On Journaling:

• The Joys of Journaling: A Dialogue by Erica Miner and Carolyn Howard-Johnson

On Tolerance

• Please see the tolerance page of this Web site.

• The Romney Question and Why Time Magazine Goofed   829 Words

On Reading

• Breaking Old Reading Habits:  10 Ways to Learn to Love Literary 618 Words

 Reviews for Riters™  (Reviews of recommended books for authors, books that will help them write better, promote better, even tech better. Carolyn has at least 50 of these reviews available as a series or individually.)

• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies by June Casagrande  396 Words

• Get Published! Get Produced!  by Peter Miller 350 Words

• Bird by Bird  by Anne LaMott  387 Words

• Fear of Writing by Milli Thornton   514 Words

• Outside the Square Fiction Workshop by Cheryl Wright   518 Words

• Writing for Profit: Breaking into Magazines by Cheryl Wright

• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey (On Grammar)

• Roget's Descriptive Wordfinder  542 Words

• Your First Novel by Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb   407 Words

• Run by Ann Patchett   752 Words

• Rereadings by Anne Fadiman  553 Words

• Bang the Keys by Jill Dearman (Penguin)

• New Vintage Type by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson   531 Words

• Unfolding the Mysteries of Culture, Language and Writing Subtly, Like the Whisper of a Fan--Review of Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 

• Now You See Him: A Lesson in Craft (the novel reviewed is by Eli Gottlieb)

• Get Noticed...Get Referrals by Jill Lublin

• Righting the Mother Tongue by David Wolman (Spelling)

• Publishing Possibilities by Cheryl Pickett 435 Words

• New! Describer's Dictionary, The by David Grambs 473 Words

• New! 101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters by Larry Brooks 642 Words

  Donwloadable Podcasts

   

•  Free Podcast: Download my interview with Frank Gasiorowski, radio host and author of 90 Day Goals. Learn more about everything from nude cover photos to tolerance to writing book proposals.

Rants

Find a few sample rants here or download .pdfs below:

• Do We Want to Allow Others to Demean Us?  The Oprah Game: Must We Play by Their Rules? Must We Play at All?

• A Rant on Sestina (A poem)

• J. K. Rowling, the LA Times and the Deadly but Hallowed Profit Conundrum 786 words

• Ranting Around: Hating the Word "Self-Promotion"

You will find other content available for reprint throughout this site.

Find other content (writers read that as "helpful articles" and editors may read that as "free but professional articles") at:

• Jill Ronsley's Sun Editing and Book Design

• Editor Lea Schizas's Web site. Click on the Article Bank link.

• April Robins has several articles available on her site at http://www.robinfalls.com/writerscorner.html .
   

Some who edit writer-focused blogs, newsletters, e-zines, newspapers or magazines may want to subscribe to Carolyn Howard-Johnson's newsletter, "Sharing with Writers," by sending an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line. It will provide a steady stream of reprintable articles, tips and other fillers directly to your e-mail boxes.

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