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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!

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The Author's Companion: A Self-Guided Course on Book Promotion CD-Rom is a turn-key marketing program to launch your book campaign in four simple steps. http://tinyurl.com/2vpghe

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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.

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For lots more links for reading and writing stuff, visit my Sharing with Writers and Readers blog.

 Endorsements

Wow. What more can I say? [The Frugal Book Promoter is] interesting, informative, readable and more. Easy to follow, quotes and technique mixed in together wonderfully. This is an A-one job. Watch out world! I’m going to have to put it under my pillow ~ Leora G. Krygier, author of First the Raven and When She Sleeps

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"I’m a writer who would love to have someone else take over the editing and proofreading stages of my manuscripts because I hate editing, proofreading, and rewriting. Ms. Howard-Johnson’s techniques and her encouragement from page to page of THE FRUGAL BOOK EDITOR lifts my spirits to the level where I can approach these hated tasks in a better attitude and get the job done. I advise all writers to obtain a copy of THE FRUGAL BOOK EDITOR and keep it handy as your write."  ~Lucille P. Robinson, reviewer for Alternative Read

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"You really made a great contribution. Everybody loved your program." ~ Ernie Weckbaugh, Pres., and Patty Weckbaugh, VPres., Book Publicists of Southern California

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Learn with  Podcasts:

This podcast is on Authors' Access Top Ten LIst!

Visit with Carolyn, author of the HowToDoItFrugally Series of Books for writers. Carolyn shares her best tips and strategies for low-cost/zero-cost marketing campaigns and also talks about what NOT to do to market your books. She also talks about the value of editing and how it directly controls how your proposals, books, and marketing are perceived in the marketplace.

Listen to the interview on Authors Access. Visit  the link and click on the PODCAST button. Tune in each week as Irene and Victor interview industry luminaries on marketing, writing, editing, and publishing by subscribing to the RSS feed.

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Wasabi Club, a group of PR professionals, presents Carolyn in a teleseminar on editing We talk about the PR business, about finding the right editor, and more. Michelle Tennant Nicholson is the interviewer.

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Podcast Endorsement

"...  I have no doubt this episode [of AuthorSuccess.com podcasts] will go on to be
forever in our Top 10 list. Congratulations on a great show! ~Victor R. Volkman, www.AuthorsAccess.com

 Who Do You Go to When You Need Help!

The Writing Problem Busters!

(Read That Fellow Authors and Writers' Sites, Writers' Organizations and Services for Writers!)

Other Writers' Resources

Click Here for media release disseminators, content providers, and sites that accept book and author information at no cost.

Click Here for how-to books, 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!

Click Here for a list of book fairs, tradeshows, conferences and conventions. Your aid to planning ahead.

Click Here  for Writers' Conferences: The Big and the Cozy. A list of book fairs, tradeshows, conferences and conventions. Your aid to planning ahead.(

Click Here for a list of writers' programs at US universities.

So, you're on the right track!  Find what you need for your writing and promotion efforts here! What you can't find here, find at Authors' Coalition.

For the FREE Muse Online Writers Conference Click Here.

For a list of accessible contests Click Here.

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.

Promotion Services

You'll find direction in the Frugal Book Promoter for building your own media kit; if you choose not to build your own, the information there will make you a better partner for a publicist you might hire to help you. I recommend PressKit 24/7, the brainchild of publicists with over forty years' experience. We know the speed at which you need to work, and we know what it takes to get the media's attention. It was critical for us to be able to create professional online press kits for our own clients. So we understand what you need for yours.
 

Promotion and Writing-Oriented Organizations

Led by Cheryl Wright and Sarah Cook, Aussie Authors is creative and overseas-friendly:

The MuseItUp Club is an award-winning and Writer's Digest Top 101 Best Sites of 2005& 2006 Writing Critique community, aimed towards the serious writer who wants to hone their work and get published. For more information, e-mail museitupeditor@yahoo.ca 

Founded by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and directed by Joyce Faulkner, this Authors' Coalition offers resources for authors to advance their careers.

The Association of Web Entrepreneurs is an group where experts on building a writer's site as a business await you.

National Association of Women Writers (NAWW), where women writers network. Highly recommended. It works if you work it. (-:

International Order of Horror Professionals, founded by Bev Walton Porter, is for publishers, writers and anyone else connected with creative horror pursuits--including marketers!

 Small Publishers Association of North America publishes one of the best print newsletters for authors and publishers in the business. SPAN helped me put my fashion publicist and journalism expertise into book promotion mode.

The California Writers Club is a great place to meet and network with other writers. The San Fernando Valley branch meets the first Saturday of the month in Sherman Oaks. See website for more details and speaker information.

Boomer Women Speak has a writers' forum. I've met some lovely, supportive writers there.  .

The Military Writers Society of America is an association of more than five-hundred authors, poets, and artists, drawn together by the common bond of military service or those who write with a military focus. Here's a calendar of their membership's events:

Texas Coalition of Authors publishes a newsletter available online.

UCLA's Writers' Program has a new Writers’ Program website where you can find just the right learning experience both on campus and online!  just went live! I'm proud of my instructor's page there, too.

Writers of Kern is a chapter of the California Writers Club. They meet once a month, on the third Saturday, at the Best Western Crystal Palace Inn & Suites, 2620 Buck Owens Blvd, Bakersfield, CA. at 10:30am. They feature a speaker each month and a small critique group. They encourage membership which is $65 for the first year and $45 for each continuous year of membership thereafter. Detailed information can be obtained by calling President Carol Black at 661-213-4391, or Vice-President Joe Tomasi at 661-391-9124.

Writers' Services

Web for Authors is a reasonably priced website service for authors owned by Marshall Turner.

“Creating exciting and dynamic websites for authors and speakers.”

Authors' Coalition offers services for writers including kits to help you make a success of your events. "AC is the current that propels your writing career." The photo of the book display stand at the right illustrates the kind of products useful for authors available on the site along with hundreds of other resources and services. The photo below illustrates a banner and sign that marketing tests told members of Authors' Coalition work better than any sign ever has. The secrets here are the adjustable height, the picture of the author that tells the crowds that the author is there in person signing and using the words "Author Now Signing."  The double-sided feature is terrific, too, for when you aren't in the booth. Learn more by sending an e-mail.

This banner is double-sided (book cover on the other side). The height adjusts so it can be seen over crowds. It is portable in a roller back--easily portable. It lasts for a really long time. And it's under $200. Restaurants are using them effectively, why not authors?

Carolyn Howard-Johnson edits both fiction and poetry. See the editing services page on this site.

Audios Rule! Multitaskers will want to learn more about writing with Allyn Evans, Joyce Faulkner, Kathe Gogolewski and Carolyn Howard-Johnson. Available n MP3 or CD ROM, they are published by Double Dragon Press.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, marketing and promotion consulting/coaching. "Careers that aren't fed die as readily as any living organism given no sustenance."  http://carolynhoward-johnson.com or send e-mail.

David Leonhardt offers a variety of services for writers including ghost writing and editing. He "gives your business more than just a presence." http://www.seo-writer.net/resources/writing.html

For book cover design, photography and graphic design contact Eric Dinyer. He designed the books I wrote the forewords for, Support Our Troops and Effort and Surrender. 

If you like the cover of The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor, you'll want to check out T.C. McMullen for inexpensive cover design or e-mail her. 

Trudy McMurrin, editor. Protect yourself against inadequate publisher support by letting her help mold your book before you submit it. With more than three decades experience as editor of several university presses, Trudy's skills are exemplary.

Jill Ronsley of Sun Editing and Book Design offers editing, interior book design, typesetting and cover design services to publishers and authors for works of nonfiction, fiction and children's writing. Also, promotional materials for authors and their books. 

 

Don't buy your journals from anyone else! This one features quotations from the famous and the newbie but more than that, it can help you promote, increase your book fair profits and more. Learn how at Red Engine Press.

Learn more about tips booklets and how to make them work for you. Paulette Ensign was one of the first master promoters I came in contact with. She'll teach you to make promotional booklets work for you with a variety of programs. http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/?af=696843

 

Dr. Bob Rich, freelance editor, finds the good things in your book and makes suggestions for improving it.

Low-cost banners (animated, $15; static, $10). The editor of MyShelf.com is flexible; tell her what you want. Ask to see her samples.

Cynthia Brian, media coach, writer, author, speaker, TV/radio personality, spokesperson.

The AndGor Toy Company will create a replica of you or a character in your book for about $265.00. Use it for promotion or mass produce it for sale (and promotion).

BooKcard is a  gift box for a gift book and greeting card all in the same package. Please go to www.theBookcard.net  for a brief film.Offering a book in a BooKcard gives all publishers a new dimension for sales. It recognizes that 67% of all books sold are purchased as GIFTS. If a buyer wants to give a book away, then you also have a new profit center because a BooKcard costs around $2.50 (depending on size, quantity and complication), but sells retail for $4.95. Contact Godfrey Harris, The Americas Group, Tel: + (1) 310 476 6374,Fax: + (1) 310 471 3276,Mobile: + (1) 213 500 8037. EM: hrmg@aol.com
 

PENCILS™ - A Proofreading & Copyediting Company. Let Laura Kerley help you present your work in the best light possible! E-mail.

Has writing lost its spontaneity? Find remedies in Milli Thornton's online writing course.

Wordpix Solutions offers design, production and book shepherding services for self-  and subsidy-published authors.

Julie D'Arcy produces videos for authors and supplies authors with YouTube presence or sends them a CD-ROM.

Need someone to lead you through the publishing process?  Try to get to Karla Olson of BookStudio before your are published.

Success Literary Services offers complete book manuscript services. They were honored with twelve awards. References.

Need help with your writing career? From coaching and ghostwriting to publishing and marketing, contact your Author's Advocate, Patrika Vaughn.

Erica Miner, award-winning author of Travels With My Lovers, is a ghostwriter par excellence.  Professor of Medicine Sat Sharma says: "Erica Miner is a fine artist of the craft of writing and a master of creating fiction. She will spin the words to bring any story or characters to life. Her writing is spellbinding and will keep the reader enthralled." Her specialties are romance, mystery,  and ‘based on a true story’ concepts.  She also does expert copy editing.

Authors' Coalition offers a promotional CD that is a hit as a give-away at authors' events because of it high perceived value. It includes full short stories, valuable nonfiction excerpts, poetry and more. Might you be a part of its cross-promotional power? Contact Carolyn.  Now, about that design! You can personalize the adorable CD art that Kathe developed for our Authors' Coalition discs. Imagine! Your name and book title for use in your promotional material: flyers, pamphlets', brochures, letters, and e-mail signatures. For only $20 for Authors' Coalition members and $35 for non-members, artist Kathe Gogolewski will tweak the AC logos on this page to suit your promotional needs. To see all the possibilities (male, female, dark skin, light skin, etc. click here. Then imagine your book's title and your name incorporated into the design.

Writing Helps

Writing exercises from Meredith Sue Willis.

Audios Learn more about writing while you drive. MP3s or CD ROMs are published by Double Dragon Press.

I teach at UCLA.  So do several other instructors I recommend for classes, editing and other services. They include Eve LaSalle Caram, Phyllis GeBauer, Suzanne Lummis and Carolyn Leavitt. If you need recommendations, e-mail me.

Writers in the Sky is a podcast where writers will find easily digested tips and topics on everything from book promotion to editing and the craft of writing.  It is hosted by Yvonne Perry. You'll also find Writers in the Sky at her blogsite.

Protect yourself from contest scams with the links listed on this page: http://windpub.com/literary.scams/

Angela Watkins provides a page of tips and links for Christian writers.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is interviewed by Iris Fanning. It's a free seminar available at http://www.qtworldradio.com/qtradio/archives.html . Scroll to the Iris Fanning Show and Click on Do You Have a Book Inside? If you need help with the MP3 download there's a quick click for that too.
 
Explore your creative side with Online English and Writing Degrees at ClassesAndCareers.com. Be the voice of any business, in any industry, in any part of the world!

 

Author-Friendly Radio and TV

These are all shows that I have been on and recommend.

Frugal Authors!  Showcase your book and your expertise in print and online with www.Lisa.fm , Leading Edge Talk Radio.  Spring Special Author Services Package includes:  Radio interview on Lisa.fm (4,500 listeners per month), and audio copy of interview for use on your website; ‘featured guest’ listing on home page of website; archived bio in the featured guests page of Lisa.fm; print story posted on the website of a major Southern California newspaper (circulation 225,000).  Check out www.lisa.fm, and contact Lisa Osborne for details at leadingedgetalk@yahoo.com. 

Fran Halpern hosts the lively, often funny, Beyond Words, a show for literary toilers and word lovers which airs Saturday at 2 P.M on KCLU in Santa Barbara, CA. on KCLU 88.3 & 102.3, an NPR affiliate 88.3 Call during and before the broadcast at 805-493-9200.

Connie Martinson Talks Books is a syndicated TV interview show filmed in LA. Here is a host who actually reads the books of the authors she interview. (My This Is the Place and Harkening were tagged and labeled and book marked like crazy).

Connie Gotsch's Write On covers writers who are from the four corners area or write about it. I qualify because I'm from Utah and my novel,  This Is the Place, is set in Utah. Utah, after all, is one of the four-corners states. She has also featured some of my poetry from Tracings, which is also influenced by that unique place and culture. See this site for more on those books.

The Joe Mazza Show is a late night syndicated show where you can reach insomniacs in small towns and larger ones. Joe likes lots of subjects but you'll get to him if you'll talk 50s, classic cars or his dog, Sebastian. Tell him I sent you.

The Jane Prince-Jones Show is an early morning drive show. Jane loves the theater but she'll talk about most anything on her KFYO radio show. E-mail.

Yvonne Perry and her team of writers host a weekly  Writers in the Sky Podcast. They talk about writing, publishing, book marketing. They feature tips on writing, interviews.

Nightengale Press publisher and author, Valerie Connelly, hosts the popular internet radio program, CALLING ALL AUTHORS on Tuesdays at 4PM Central Time. Publishing and publicity experts as well as authors of all genres and experience.  Join Valerie for lively conversations about their books, their businesses and their hopes and fears as they promote their work. Valerie has had me on twice and is a consummate interviewer. Listen to the archives. A must-listen and  great place to give informative interviews for authors seeking to inform, promote and entertain.

 

The Reverend Cherise Thorne is host of an inspirational program called Knowing Spirit. Think of an angle, even if your book isn't specifically inspirational. She is very accessible. Phone: 815-483-1141.  Her web address and podcast is at www.knowingspirit.org/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html.

 

Here is a link where you'll find a list of other shows: http://betsie.tripod.com/literary/id82.html. Do be careful though. Some of them are interview shows that authors must pay for. You probably already know that, in the Frugal Book Promoter I advise against doing that, generally speaking. There are, of course exceptions to every rule.

The Iris Fanning Show on Quiet Time Radio features Life Coach Iris Fanning and her guests. Get coached, get inspired! Go to www.qtworldradio.com and click on the Iris Fanning Show to schedule, details, Carolyn Howard-Johnson's show "Everyone Has a Book Inside" and to get ideas for how the subject of your book might fit Iris's programming.

Promotion Tip: In The Frugal Book Promoter I advise authors to beware of paying for services that traditionally have have been offered at no cost to authors. There are times when you will want to make exceptions, but in general you will not need to pay to be on the radio, to get your book reviewed, to be the host of a radio or TV program or to get an agent to read your manuscript.  Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or tech on every page of this website.

Sound Authors features authors on all topics in 15 minute interviews. www.soundauthors.com/wp-content/themes/revolution/images/log.gif. Listen to Carolyn's interview to learn more about how to query agents, editors, publishers and producers in the show's archives:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundauthors.  The site is easy to navigate and, you can see, it is a good one to listen to or appear on.

Jordana Ryan ( http://jordanaryan.tripod.com ) hosts Book Café, www.blogtalkradio.com/Jordana-Ryan. iShe accepts applications for her show at purplepixiedustgir@sbcglobal.net. To hear a sample show, please listen to our interview using the widget below. We talk about how Preditors and Editors.com can be misleading, book contracts, the best way to promote a book and even a little poetry and craft.

 

 

Publishers for You to Explore

4RV Publishing LLS: Their motto is "One on One with Authors and Artists." Find them at http://4rvpublishingllc.com . They are  a Gold Banner sponsor of Authors' Coalition.

Star Publish features several levels of participation and some unique promotion support features. Publisher is Kristie Leigh Maguire.

Jada Press  is a small, independent publisher with a focus on the author. Glenda Ivey, publisher, proudly recommends The Frugal Book Promoter to her authors. They also sponsor an annual contest.

Trafford offers excellent materials to help you decide if they are the ones to publish your book. They do quality work.

Gorham Printing has a free e-book with some neat guidelines on publishing on their home page. Check it (and their services) out. 

Newsletters That Help You Write, Tech or Promote Better

Publishing and Promoting led by Diane J. Newton is an active link serve group for writers. 

Sharing with Writers is a community where writers brag a bit, share tips with one another, learn about opportunities for writers. S

Yarnspinners and Wordweavers is html lovely. They run reviews of author-friendly bookstores, author interviews and reviews

Fiction Flyer is a newsy letter focused on writers with a wide lens. Kathe and Ray Gogolewski edit.

The Book Promotion Newsletter includes resources you can use in each bi-weekly edition.

Coffee Cramp Magazine entertains you with stories to suit every genre loving reader. Edited by Lea Schizas.

Keep your finger on the pulse of the lucrative commercial freelancing business with the free Wellfed Writer edited by Peter Bowerman. 

Scribe & Quill is a publication for writers of all experience levels and genres. Each issue our writing resource delivers informative articles, columns, interviews, poetry, short fiction, humor, job opportunities and writing markets.  E-mail.

The Maplewoods Mirror has notes about writing and living a writer's life (Chris Meek's writers' life specifically).  Subscribe to the monthly newsletter. Get past newsletters there, too.

Sassy-Brit writes a sassy letter and offers lots of opportunities for promotion to her subscribers.

Freelance Writing's Newsletter

The Web-Savvy Writer e-zine: When you subscribe, you'll receive a free report on author  website strategies from Patrice-Anne Rutledge, author, The Web-Savvy Writer: Book Promotion with a High-Tech Twist. http://www.websavvywriter.com

A newsletter full of book reviews edited by author Annette Gisby.

Read author interviews, market information, and more in Writer Advice. To subscribe or to submit material for consideration, E-mail.  LGood67334@comcast.net  Put "subscribe" in the subject box.

Stimulate your prose and make your writing dreams come true.  Join The Writer Within Newsletter group for informative articles, insider tips, lucrative links and a caring community of dedicated writers.  FREE sign up at http://shaunna67.tripod.com  This is a paying market! 

Articles, books suggestions and more! Send an e-mail with "Subscribe" in the subject line to to Editors Brian Hill & Dee Power.

Writers in the Sky—a free monthly newsletter filled with resources for writers and write-wanna-bees. Subscribers receive a free eBook “Tips on Freelance Writing.”

Stories for Children Newsletter for Writers is a free monthly newsletter created for children's writers or anyone who loves to write. Each newsletter contains tips about writing,  how other writers started down the road to success through trial and error, success stories on being published, contest, and writing markets. It is edited by Virginia S. Grenier.

Writers' Conferences: The Big and the Cozy*          

*Book Fairs, Tradeshows, Conventions has a page of its own: Click Here for a list of book fairs, tradeshows, conferences and conventions. Your aid to planning ahead.(

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