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In the Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, Carolyn Howard-Johnson advises that media kits be designed to make life easy for reviewers, editors, producers, hosts. She uses a convenient Contents page to help them find what they need, includes ready-to-print material with permission to do so, and, of course, provides easily accessible contact information including fellow experts in the several fields she speaks on. She encourages fellow authors to download her kits to use as templates.

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Mini Biography for Carolyn Howard-Johnson

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. An instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program, her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t is recommended reading for her classes, was named USA Book News’ “Best Professional Book 2004," and was given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. It won USA Book News and Reader Views Literary Awards and the campaign for it won New Generations Marketing Award. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers' Society of America's Silver Award of Excellence. Two other chapbooks with Magdalena Ball received USA Book News nods. She is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her community's Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." She blogs at Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites pick www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com.

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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! All are available for the Kindle reader.

Purchase This Is the Place and Harkening at Amazon.

Purchase Tracings (Finishing Line Press), named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best List at Amazon.

Purchase She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood, a chapbook of poetry at Amazon.

Purchase Cherished Pulse, a chapbook of unconventional love poetry at Amazon.

Purchase and find the Audio Divas' CDs for writers at Tri-Studio .

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