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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!

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"Even though I'm not on the 'author' side, I find the information [in the Sharing with Writers newsletter] incredibly valuable ... as well as a great way to keep my sense of what's going on in the literary world! ~ Terry, editor of The Reading Tub

"After I bought the Frugal Book Promoter, I had the privilege of meeting Carolyn Howard-Johnson at an authors' event. Later I subscribed to her newsletter, Sharing with Writers, and watched her website ... grow. Through her advice, recommendations, hints and leads one can tell that Carolyn ... revels in sharing her acquired wisdom with the world. Her newsletters contain tons of practical and useful information, keeping pace with technology... the quintessential teacher reveling in the development of her students. I often benefit from her leads and make time to read Sharing with Writers to the last sentence, sometimes copying paragraphs for future use. Carolyn conveys ideas much faster than I can implement them. She is to be commended for carrying on an Internet classroom for a smile." ~ Mary Zerzian, author The Immigrants' Daughter.

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 Keep Up with Writing, Publishing, Reading and Promotion with Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Newsletters and Blogs

SHARING WITH WRITERS . . . A newsletter that is also a community. Share your ideas. Learn from theirs.

"This is a thank you and a love note. I've been copying your newsletters each week and I have them strewn all over the place with pages turned back and stuff marked etc.  So much good information, some I may never get to." ~Norma J. Sundberg author of An Odd Fable, with Esther Leiper, illustrator.

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You are invited to subscribe to my newsletter. It is published weekly except when I'm on deadline for a book or traveling (a girl has to live, after all!)  It is associated with Authors' Coalition, a place where authors come to learn, to share what they know and sometimes to brag a bit.  Subscribe by clicking here.

You know you want to!

Bonuses include semi-annual editions of the popular AllTips editions and occasional special AllTips editions on targeted subjects like writing craft, book marketing, and editing.   

Sharing with Writers is an entity of Authors' Coalition and  is edited by Mindy Phillips Lawrence of MPL Creative Resources (www.freewebs.com/mplcreative).  Contact her at mplcreative1@aol.com for editing help.

Here's what people are saying:

 Dear Carolyn:

One of the reasons I like you so much is this incredible email [Sharing with Writers].

This kind of information is not only tantamount and compelling...it reveals your secrets, the secret of all of your success(es). It basically tells us, "This is how you can win."

 Almost everything from you and about you, if scrutinized closely enough, will be hints, ideas, thoughts, etc. that tell us either how to START winning or how to train our minds to think more like yours.

 I've always considered you a marketing and promotional genius. It not only seems to come naturally, but it involves the tons and tons of footwork you've always been willing to do.

 So when I get a missive from you, any missive, I study it and it always teaches me.

 I've yet to meet you. But you've taught me more about the business than anyone else I've ever met, and I've met/know a lot of successful writers and show business people.

 The fact that you're so willing to share with us makes you even more incredible to me. Lots of people with your information prefer to keep it to themselves.

 Frankly,  I've been one of them.

 You've encouraged me to start giving back. In this vein, I contacted the LAPL [Los Angeles Public Library] about leading a writing  group on a volunteer basis.  It's going through the administration as I write but it's been pre-approved.

 I've also offered to lead or teach writing groups at a few Northeast Los Angeles senior centers, because I've always felt seniors had so much sensational material buried deep within. Once they begin writing, seniors find it a joyous and fulfilling thing . . . .~Joe Kelley, screenwriter. Printed with permission of the writer.

Learn more about Authors' Coalition's associated newsletters on this website.

Amazon Plog. Or Blog.

Call it what you will, Amazon's AuthorConnect(TM) is a wonderful tool that lets authors stay tuned to people who have bought their book(s) at this mostly author-friendly site. The author writes the plog and Amazon sends out. To sign up for it,  go to anyone of my book's pages, scroll down the blog section until you see a little gold, oval button on the left side of the page that says "Add to Your Plog" and click. Any of my books' pages will do just fine, but I'm giving you the one for This Is the Place, because I don't want you to think the only thing I write is how-to books. (-:

My Blogspot Blogs

I credit Allyn Evans, the founder of Queenpower.com, with nudging me into this one. I needed one more tech headache like I needed one more thing to do. She led me through the process at Blogspot.com and I found it very user-friendly.  In less than a couple sessions at the computer I was using RSS Feeds, building lists so I could link with readers and writers and generally loving how this blog place is connected to Google--a powerful thing indeed.  Thus my...ahem...real blog was born, but it connects to my Amazon plog and does at least a dozen other snazzy things that newsletters can't do (or at least mine can't!)  When you go visit, you'll want to learn from it but also you'll also want to  blast a bit about yourself into the networld. You do that by leaving a comment and including your website address and a little about what you like to read or about the book you wrote.  Ta Da!! Here it is: http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com. 

And then came another -- The New Book Review -- that helps writers extend the life of their best reviews (and readers find exciting new material.  Please read the guidelines on the left side of the page before submitting.

And then another -- Authors Coalition --  that helps writers making dull book fair booths into promotion workhorses.

How I love blogs! Here's a way for you to get your editing questions answered. www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com.

Among my favorite topics, tolerance. And how the lack of it results in wars and other world ills. Check our www.warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com.

Unsolicited Endorsement on My Blogs:

In reading the blogs on which you posted the links to the reading list for the World Literature class taught by Dr. Dan Skelton, I realized that I had not come near to using the information you have available in your FRUGAL books or on your fantastic blogs.  There's enough to wander through for years to come.  Thank you, Carolyn, for putting so much useful information in a few choice, easy-to-access places.  I can use it to help Dr. Skelton, all my other clients at MPL Creative Resources and myself. BRAVO! ~ Mindy Lawrence, publicist and author representative for Dr. Dan Skelton, author representative for Bev Walton-Porter (soon to be Sninchak)
 

Carolyn with Paula Abdul and a trade ,magazine she writes for.

Photo courtesy of Debra Gold of Gold & Co.

M E D I A  R E L E A S E

September 19, 2007

For Immediate Release

• Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson

• E-Mail: HoJoNews@aol.com

Authors' Coalition Readies Third Semi-Annual All-Tips Issue

Glendale, CA—Pssst.  Did you know?

That kind of approach has always caught our interest. We look for hot stuff on the stock market, best buys and, of course, better ways to do business. Now that authors find themselves in the positions of promoter and publisher as well as writer, they look for tips, too!

Tips, in fact, are the favorite feature of Authors' Coalition's newsletter, "Sharing with Writers." Founder of the organization, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, is editor of that letter and noticed that correspondence from readers was mostly about tips and more tips. Thus, the first-ever, all-new tips edition was born. After that, subscribers asked for more and the tips edition become a semi-annual event.

 Authors' Coalition members are always encouraged to participate in the letter, to share with their fellows by sending articles and news. They came out in droves for this issue and the edition may need to become a two-part newsletter. Before September has waned, the third semi-annual edition will hit the email boxes of subscribers.

Authors' Coalition's site is under construction but interested authors may subscribe to the letter at http://authorscoaltionandredeneginepress.com) or do so by sending an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to HoJoNews@aol.com.

The group also offers ad space, fee writing-related e-books, promotional ideas, a bookstore for to showcase their members' books, a blog focused on making humdrum booth at a book fair into a rousing success by using value-added promotions, (http://AuthorsCoalition.blogspot.com ), and more.

 Directors of the group are published authors Pat McGrath Avery and Joyce Faulkner.

 Howard-Johnson, the editor of "Sharing with Writers," is the author of USA Book News' Best Professional Book and Irwin Award winner, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't.

 Hew new is release, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success .

 Among the sponsors of Authors' Coalition are WebforAuthors.com and Red Engine Press.

 More information on Authors' Coalition principals may be found at:

http://www.JoyceFaulkner.com

http://www.HowToDoItFrugally.com .

http://www.redenginepress.com.

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