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A complete chapter on writing media releases and putting together a media kit that lets editors find what they need may be found within the pages of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't. (-: ~~~ TV/Video Clip with Host Rey Ybarra May Be Found Here: ~~~ Click here for Carolyn's first person essay, "Beating Time at Its Own Game." Click here for story ideas for the media. ~~~ Recent Interviews Sheri' McConnell of NAWW interviewed me after the launch of The Frugal Editor: http://naww.org/blog/naww-member-interview-carolyn-howard-johnson#comment-5358. The Wow staff interviewed me on the info on query letters that is in The Frugal Editor: It's at: http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/13-FE-CarolynJohnson.html Jennifer Wright, a freelancer for a big NY agency says, "I really enjoyed reading the query article with Carolyn - I'm sure it will help a lot of people make it out of the slush pile." ~~~ Endorsements "You may think you know everything you need to know about promoting yourself, or that you don't have to know anything about it because your publisher will handle it, but Carolyn Howard-Johnson provides affordable common-sense strategies for getting your work the attention it deserves, and her energy is contagious." ~ Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, program director of the East Sierra Branch, California Writers Club ~~~
~~~ Awards for Carolyn's Books, Blogs and More The New Book Review Named to Online Universities' 101 Book Blogs You Need to Read.
For The New Book Review and Sharing with Writers blog. Nominated by Nikki Leigh. and Jewel Sample respectively.
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).
USA Book News Best Book Finalist for poetry for She Wore Emerald Then and A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotion, both 2009.
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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Remembering Mothers a New Way
Jennifer Akers Names Poetry Chapbook to Top Ten List
WorldWide Web—Jennifer Akers, long time reviewer and editor for MyShelf.com, named She Wore Emerald Then to her Top Ten Reads for 2009 (http://www.myshelf.com/toptenreads.html) . She says, " . . . probably because my mom died 15 years ago, I found [She Wore Emerald Then] uplifting, truthful, and touching. It's stayed with me . . . When it was time to send my 2009 Top Ten, it easily topped my list." She Wore Emerald Then was conceived by Californian Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Aussie Magdalena Ball as an alternative to the cloying greeting cards usually available for mothers in card shops and its popularity made it the first in what is now their Celebration Series of low-cost, poetic alternatives to greeting cards. It was also named a finalist for poetry by USA Book News. Jennifer Akers enjoys sharing her favorite books with readers annually. In addition to book reviews, she writes human interest stories, local events, family activities, writer resources, business, and social media marketing regularly for online and print media. She also ghostwrites for business owners, other writers, and individuals. Find her at Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferakers Howard-Johnson's first chapbook, Tracings (Finishing Line Press) was honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads. Her poetry has also been published in journals like Pear Noir, Montana State University's literary magazine, Writings from the River, Mt. St. Mary’s College journal Mary, The Pedestal magazine and in the soon-to-be released anthology by UCLA’s own Suzanne Lummis. She is the author of several other award-winning books. She is also an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Ball’s novel Sleep Before Evening received unanimous 5-star reviews for its linguistic beauty and the intensity of its plot. She is also the author of an award-winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup, and a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her website The Compulsive Reader, http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, has become a benchmark for high quality online literary criticism.The two poets collaborated last year on a book of what Howard-Johnson calls "unsyrupy" poetry for Valentines Day. It is available at www.budurl.com/CherishedPulse.Artwork for She Wore Emerald Then is by May Lattanzio. She is a freelance writer/photographer (http://www.jpgmag.com/people/may), and author of Waltz on the Wild Side—An Animal Lover's Journal and contributor to Native West's anthology Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West - A Tribute". Learn more about Magdalena Ball at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/MediaRoom.htm Learn More about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com. Find She Wore Emerald Then on Amazon at: www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook ### Support Materials are Available On Request
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For Immediate Release Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com October 31, 2009
Lillian Cauldwell and Carolyn Howard-Johnson Partner To Offer Fiction Reading Opportunity Lillian Cauldwell and Carolyn Howard-Johnson invite authors to participate in a frugal and fabulous reading and cross-promotion adventure
Starting March, 2010. (Nonfiction and Poetry Weeks will come later in 2010.)
Authors may book a
reading on what may be a first-of-its-kind event: Text Lillian at 734-277-2733 Or E-mail: LSaraCauldwell@gmail.com for details! The planned program also includes: § Authors book reviews will be posted on Carolyn's The New Book Review blog: http://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com. That blog was recently named to Online Universities 101 Best Blogs for Readers list. § A special authors' page will be created on Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio (www.pivtr.com) Web page. § Lillian will make MP3 streams (html codes) of participating authors' presentations available for $3 each plus shipping. Proceeds from the MP3 streams will go to Mission Socorro and Capuchin Soup Kitchen to help the homeless, migrant workers and recently released prisoners get back on their feet. Passionate Voices Radio is based on three principles: to market and promote published mid-list and unknown authors to the media; to provide a conduit for voices not otherwise heard in this noisy world; and to provide quality educational and informative content to listeners so they can use it immediately in their spiritual, personal and business lives. Lillian Cauldwell is an author of one award-winning nonfiction book, "Teenagers! A Bewildered Parent's Guide." She writes multi-cultural paranormal mysteries for mid teens (9 to 14 years) and mentors junior and senior high school students to write their first books. http://lilliancauldwell.com and http://internetvoicesradio.com. Carolyn Howard-Johnson is an award-winning novelist and poet. She is also the author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. www.howtodoitfrugally.com. The pair plans future reading festivals for poets and writers of nonfiction.
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Reflections on Motherhood a Prize Winner
Award-winning Poets From Two Hemispheres Awarded for Chapbook
"a different kind of future airy and permanent the dry bliss of yellow bows and shiny shoes"
She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood was conceived by Californian Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Aussie Magdalena Ball as part of their poetry chapbook series designed to commemorate holidays; their efforts were rewarded October 19 when it was named as a finalist for poetry book by USA Book News.
They believe that many need an alternative to the cloying
greeting cards usually available for mothers' birthdays,
Mother's Howard-Johnson's first chapbook, Tracings (Finishing Line Press) was honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads. Her poetry has also been published in journals like Pear Noir, Montana State University's literary magazine, Writings from the River, Mt. St. Mary’s College journal Mary, The Pedestal magazine and in the soon-to-be released anthology by UCLA’s own Suzanne Lummis. She is the author of several other award-winning books. She is also an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Ball’s novel Sleep Before Evening received unanimous 5-star reviews for its linguistic beauty and the intensity of its plot. She is also the author of an award-winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup, and a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her website The Compulsive Reader, http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, has become a benchmark for high quality online literary criticism. Artwork for She Wore Emerald Then is by May Lattanzio. She is a freelance writer/photographer, and author of Waltz on the Wild Side -- An Animal Lover's Journal and contributor to Native West's anthology Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West - A Tribute". Learn more about Magdalena Ball at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/MediaRoom.htm Learn More about Carolyn Howard-Johnson in the Media Room at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com Find a catalog of Lattanzio's writing at http://maylattanzio.blogspot.com and her photographs at http://www.jpgmag.com/people/may or http://www.thelensflare.com/u_may.php. Find She Wore Emerald Then is available on Amazon at: http://budurl.com/MotherChapbook #### Support materials are available on request.
M E D I A R E L E A S E Ann Margaret Lewis Phone: (317) 755-2693 annlewis@joesystems.com For Immediate Release Carolyn Howard-Johnson Conducts Seminars at Free Online Conference
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Moe Green Poetry Hour Presents Poets Joan Gelfand, Rebecca Foust, and Carolyn Howard-Johnson With Guest host Playwright Kim McMillon Wednesday, September 9th at 12 Noon to 1 PM http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword
(Los Angeles), August 24, 2009 --- Are you looking for a creative way to spend your lunch hour? Tune in to Rafael Alvarado’s Moe Green Poetry Hour on Blog Talk Radio on Wednesday, September 9th from 12 PM – 1 PM. Bay Area Playwright Kim McMillon guest hosts this lively hour with poets Rebecca Foust, Joan Gelfand, and Carolyn Howard-Johnson. This powerful hour of women poets is built around the themes of healing not just ourselves, but our families an environment through poetry that speaks to what we can do for a better planet, and healthier lives. A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams, Joan Gelfand’s second collection of poetry is a richly layered collection that speaks to environmental destruction, economic finagling, rampant globalization as well as nature, friends and family, and the love that sustains us. California Poet Laureate Al Young wrote. "...Joan Gelfand’s poems vibrate, shudder or take flight, roaring and purring to safe and not so safe landings in the heart, in the gut. Readers, beware. This is powerful stuff.” Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success which is already receiving acclaim. Cheryl Wright of Writer2Writer.com says, "The Frugal Editor will become a well-used reference for writers around the world." Carolyn was awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature; her home town's Character and Ethics Commission honored her for work on promoting tolerance, and the Pasadena Weekly named her to their list of "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen" for literary activism. Rebecca Foust’s latest collection of poetry, Mom’s Canoe was the winner of the 2008 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, and was released by Texas Review Press in February 2009. Its poetry deal with living in poverty in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania, an area of once-pristine rural landscapes. Foust is also the author of Dark Card, a book of poetry about raising a son with Aspberger’s Syndrome, winner of the 2007 Phillips Poetry Prize.
So, tune in on Wednesday, September 9th at noon to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword, or call (718) 508-9717, for a fun hour of poetry.
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M E D I A R E L E A S E For Immediate Release July 18 , 2009Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-Mail: HoJoNews@aol.com For immediate release Award-Winning Author to Share Promotion Tips on Free Podcast
MaAnna Stephenson will interview author advocate Carolyn Howard-Johnson on her series of Just the FAQs podcasts on Thursday, August 14. The interview will be available at www.JustTheFAQS.net/podcast.shtml and on iTunes sometime after that. Stephenson is an author in her own right. Two decades of technical writing, web design and marketing for countless private clients and community groups led her to produce this nstructional series titled Just the FAQs, the ultimate user-friendly guides to the technical aspects of internet marketing and promotions. Her book is The Sage Age: Blending Science with Intuitive Wisdom, which was featured in Publishers Weekly shortly after its debut. The FAQs Podcasts feature informative interviews with industry professionals in the business of writing, marketing, and the creation of online media who will help writers create a top-notch product and help them reach their target audience. The two writers will do what both do best, that is give their listeners lots of tips and ideas based on their professional experience and practical approaches based on practical experience promoting their own books. Howard-Johnson instructs at UCLA Extension's world renown Writers' Program. Her first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. She is also an award-winning poet. Her how-to book for writers, 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" and is an Irwin Award winner. 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, too, is a USA Book News award-winner as well as the winner of the Reader View's Literary Award. She is the recipient of both the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and the Glendale American Business Women's Association's Woman of the Year award. Her community's Character and Ethics Committee honored her for 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 is a popular speaker and actor. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com and Stephenson at www.JustTheFAQS.net #### Support materials are available on request.
M E D I A R E L E A S E March 2, 2009 For immediate release Contact info:
Online Conference to Help Authors with Publishing Industry’s New Promote-Yourself Mindset World Wide Web--As the recession deepens for the publishing industry and more and more writers must--absolutely must--promote their own books or see them languish, a free online conference featuring industry experts is here to help! PROMO DAY returns for its second year Saturday, May 9, featuring notable publishing industry experts like Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers including The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward To Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. She is also the author of other author aids like her Amazon short, “The Great First Impression Book Proposal.” Howard-Johnson has appeared on more than 300 TV and radio shows. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program and award-winning author of fiction and poetry. The conference also features Lael Johnson, Karina Fabian, John Desjarlais - Elysabeth Eldering, Joyce Anthony, Ron Berry, Devon Ellington, Carol Denbo and Lea Schizas. The day, coordinated by Jo Linsell, is an all day online international event packed full of tips and advice. In includes a variety of opportunities for writers, publishers, editors and other book publishing professionals to promote their work and services. Readers are also welcome to drop in and get to know the presenters and attendees better in the online chatroom, view the video trailers, or read the sample chapters on site. Founder and Organiser of the event, Jo Linsdell, says “PROMO DAY came about because I was looking for opportunities to promote my books using the internet at little or no cost. After attending the Muse Online Writers Conference back in 2006, I searched the internet for similar events aimed at what to do after you’ve written the book and found none. I decided to fill the void.” New features for this year is the official blog for the event, http://promoday.blogspot.com, where everyone can keep up to date with new announcements and information regarding the event and the official PROMO DAY book, packed full of information and resources, which will be available to buy during and after the event. To attend go to http://jolinsdell.tripod.com/promoday. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.howtodoitfrugally.
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Noted Retailer and Author Launches Book at National Stationery Show
Los Angeles—Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be debuting her newest book at the National Stationery Show in New York in May in what may be the largest book launch ever and possibly the first at a gift industry tradeshow. NSS expects some 13,000 to attend their premier show for stationers and gift retailers in May. Howard-Johnson puts her nearly three decades of retail experience plus oodles more in the fields of journalism, public relations, publishing, and marketing into A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques. She consults in the three Ps: publishing, promotion and publicity and is the author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers including The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor and award-winning books of fiction and poetry.
Randy Eller, a nationally known speaker on the conference and tradeshow circuit and President of Eller Enterprises says, “In thirty-five years in the industry, there are only a handful of retailers I have observed reach the success level of Carolyn Howard-Johnson. There is only one thing you need to learn from her to succeed . . . everything she says!”
Howard-Johnson founded and operated stores ranging from home décor to gifts to antiques and other collectibles. She owned and operated the souvenir shop at the world renowned Santa Anita Race Track. She has served on the boards of directors of the malls where her stores were located, the boards of cooperative catalogs her stores utilized, and periodicals like Gift Beat. She also served on the California Gift Show board of directors. She puts this world of experience in retailing to work for you with this series of Survive and Thrive books and in her private consultation sessions.
Howard-Johnson was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature. The American Business Women’s Association (ABWA) Impact Council also named her Woman of the Year and Pasadena Weekly honored her for literary activism. She is featured on national TV commercials and teaches marketing for UCLA Extension.
The retailer cum author will present two seminars: Monday, May 18, she speaks on "Move Upward in a Down Market with Free Publicity Exposure and Money-Making In-Store Promotions" and Tuesday, May 19, she’ll speak on "Grow Your Business Online for No $$$." She will also read roundtables planned for the benefit of attendees.
She will also present two seminars and lead a round table discussion at NSS. She joins other outstanding trade show faculty Sarah Schwartz, Linda Cahan, Juanita Lewis, Patricia Norins, and Maureen Barten. A recognized gift industry leader in buyer education, Debra Gold of Gold & Company, says, “We are so proud of our amazing lineup of speakers and the opportunities and perks we’ll be offering NSS attendees this year including what may well be a first, the launch of a how-to book for retailers.”
Learn more about the author at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com. She blogs at Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites picks www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com. Find her tweeting at www.twitter.com/frugalbookpromo. Preview A Retailer’s Guide to In-Store Promotions at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1441467246/. ~~~
M E D I A R E L E A S E For Immediate Release February 12, 2009 Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-Mail: HoJoNews@aol.com Remembering Mothers a New Way
Award-winning Poets From Two Hemispheres Co-Author Chapbook
She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood was conceived by Californian Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Aussie Magdalena Ball as an alternative to the cloying greeting cards usually available for mothers in card shops. In fact, originally it was to be a thoughtful digital substitute for a card. That decision was probably influenced by the pair’s awareness that the Net was, in fact, what allowed them to meet and collaborate.
The
chapbook turned out to be both digital (for greenies who want to
save paper, postage and airline fuel) and a lovely to Howard-Johnson's first chapbook, Tracings (Finishing Line Press) was honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads. Her poetry has also been published in journals like Pear Noir, Montana State University's literary magazine, Writings from the River, Mt. St. Mary’s College journal Mary, The Pedestal magazine and in the soon-to-be released anthology by UCLA’s own Suzanne Lummis. She is the author of several other award-winning books. She is also an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Ball’s novel Sleep Before Evening received unanimous 5-star reviews for its linguistic beauty and the intensity of its plot. She is also the author of an award-winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup, and a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her website The Compulsive Reader, http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, has become a benchmark for high quality online literary criticism. The two poets collaborated last year on a book of what Howard-Johnson calls "unsyrupy" poetry for Valentines Day. It is available at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/cherishedpulse.htm Artwork for She Wore Emerald Then is by May Lattanzio. She is a freelance writer/photographer, and author of Waltz on the Wild Side -- An Animal Lover's Journal and contributor to Native West's anthology Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West - A Tribute". Learn more about Magdalena Ball at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/MediaRoom.htm Learn More about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
Find a
catalog of Lattanzio's writing at
http://maylattanzio.blogspot.com and her photographs at
http://www.jpgmag.com/people/may or Find She Wore Emerald Then on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/She-Wore-Emerald-Then-Reflections/dp/1438263791/ # # # # Support materials available on request.
M E D I A R E L E A S E For Immediate Release January 1, 2009 Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-Mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Los Angeles, CA--Editors of the independent literary journal Pear
Noir, announced the publication of its new issue featuring the
poetry of UCLA Extension Writers’ Program instructor Carolyn
Howard-Johnson and other poets like Dana Mazur, Tao Lin, Peter
Schwartz, Molly Reid, and Jessica Hoard. The journal is dedicated to showcasing the talents of new and established writers. It is published in small print editions available at http://pearnoir.com/current.htm Howard-Johnson's
poem " Death by Ferris Wheel” appears in this issue. Her
poetry has
appeared in literary journals like the Mochila Review, Banyan
Review and Poetic Voices. One of her poems won a reader
award at The Pedestal
Magazine. Howard-Johnson has studied at UCLA with Suzanne Lummis, editor of Speechless the Magazine http://www.speechlessthemagazine.org/ where her chapbook Tracings, winner of Military Writers Society of America’s Award of Excellence and published by Finishing Line Press, was featured in 2005. The poet's literary novel, This Is the Place, has won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction has won three. Her newest chapbook She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood, was coauthored by Magdalena Ball and proudly self published in the tradition of poets for centuries. She is also an authors’ advocate as author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers (www.howtodoitfrugally.com). Learn more about the Pear Noir and how to order a copy at: www.pearnoir.com/current.htm. Learn more about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com.
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M E D I A R E L E A S E For Immediate Release December 20, 2008 Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-Mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Sought-After Guest Soars on Authors Access Radio
Frugal Message Hits Top Spot for AuthorsAccess Listeners
Ann Arbor, MI--Cohosts of Authors Access radio, Victor R. Volkman and Irene Watson, announced multi award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson was the #1 most popular guest on AuthorsAccess.com podcasts for the year 2008.
Volkman says,
"With more than 1,000 listeners this year, Carolyn again proved the
lasting power of her Frugal Book Promotion message. Not only is her
message popular, but its way out in front of all the other guests,
the 2nd most popular podcast was 20% behind Carolyn's. We wish
Carolyn continued success in 2009 and we are certain her message
will become even more important as economic turmoil continues." That
podcast may be found at
http://authorsaccess.com/archives/90
Authors Access is a joint project of Loving Healing Press and ReaderViews. It features interviews from people around the world who can help authors better manage their writing careers. The show is recorded live each Thursday evening and posted immediately on www.AuthorsAccess.com. Since 2006 authors have browsed and downloaded more than 50 posted podcast shows for free.
Watson is the owner/manager of Reader Views, an Austin, Texas, based company that offers book reviews, publicity packages, editing services, as well as support to up and coming authors. The company provides quality service with professionalism, efficiency, and personal attention.
Victor R. Volkman is the publisher/owner of Loving Healing Press, an Ann Arbor, Michigan, based independent press that produces books in the Self-Help, Psychology, and New Age genres. It empowers authors to produce books which redefine what is possible for healing mind and spirit. Howard-Johnson was selected as a guest for the pair's radio show because of her strong record helping authors. She edits an online newsletter for authors,"Sharing with Writers." She is also author of the HowToDoItFrugally.com series of books for writers that includes the Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success .Both are winners of USA Book News' Best Book award and The Frugal Editor also won Reader Views Literary Award and the New Generation Award for Marketing. She sponsors the annual Noble (Not Nobel!) Prize for books (http://www.myshelf.com/backtoliterature/column.htm) and is also an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com . Learn more about AuthorsAccess at www.AuthorsAccess.com ### Support materials are available on request. Contact Volkman at sysop@HAL9K.com or Howard-Johnson at HoJoNews@aol.com.
M E D I A R E L E A S E For Immediate Release November 06, 2008 Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-Mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
Author to Advise Boomers Seeking New CareersAuthor advocate Carolyn Howard-Johnson will appear with Paul Bruno on his Career Czar talk radio program on January 30, 2009. This unique Internet talk radio program focuses on all aspects of the world of careers. The two will chat about something dear to the hearts of baby-boomers--reinventing yourself at retirement. Howard-Johnson was selected because her writing career spans everything from journalism to poetry and writing movie reviews to writing novels. The first segment of Paul's hour-long show will be about careers in freelance and journalism. The second segment will be about forging a career in fiction (novels and short stories). The third segment will cover the joys of poetry. And the fourth segment will be about nonfiction. It will include how Howard-Johnson's nonfiction books for writers have helped her career and those of others and how some similar how to books or books of inspiration can work for yours. Bruno has had guests like " Rudy Ruettiger (www.rudyinternational.com), whose dream to go to Notre Dame and play football for the Fighting Irish was chronicled in the 1993 movie Rudy, and Brian Kurth (www.vocationvacations.com), President of Vocation Vacations and author of Test-Drive Your Dream Job. After the broadcast, the show will be available to those thinking about a career change or enhancement at www.alltalkradio.net/careerczar. Download the show dated 01-30-09 or cut and paste www.alltalkradio.net/careerczar/career013009.mp3 into a web browser. Howard-Johnson instructs at UCLA Extension's world renowned Writers' Program. Her first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. She is also an award-winning poet. Her how-to book for writers, 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" and is an Irwin Award winner. 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, too, is a USA Book News award-winner as well as the winner of the Reader View's Literary Award. She is the recipient of both the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and the Glendale American Business Women's Association's Woman of the Year award. Her community's Character and Ethics Committee honored her for 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 is a popular speaker and actor.
Paul the Career Czar® has taught at the college level; worked as a Dale Carnegie instructor; written, with his wife, over ten screenplays; and has had numerous articles published in technical journals as well as a historical journal. He has appeared on the History Channel's History IQ game show. Career Czar® Paul had to learn to manage his career and life balance in the trenches. He is eager to help others create the career and life they want. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.howtodoitfrugally.com or where she blogs at www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com. ### Support materials available on request.
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Editor and Author's Blogs Honored 2nd Time in a Month
The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor blog (www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com) was named Blog of the Day Award at Blog of the Day Awards blog, http://blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com/2008/07/frugal-smart-and-tuned-in-editor.html. The winning blog is an interactive blog where writers of every ilk send questions to Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. She answers in her imitable, colloquial and sometimes irreverent style and when she can't, she finds an expert who can. This is the second award Howard-Johnson has received for her blogs this year. Brian A. Klems, online managing editor at Writer's Digest, named her Sharing with Writers (www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com) to his magazine's 101 Best Websites in 2008 only last month. Klems notes that the blog is full of "cheap ways to promote your book" but also mentions her Sharing with Writers newsletter as a source for writers. See the June, 2008, Issue of Writer's Digest magazine, p. 54. Howard-Johnson is the author of a novel, book of creative nonfiction and poetry, all award-winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43rd and 44th Districts of the California Legislature. She speaks on Utah's culture, tolerance and subjects relating to writing and publishing and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is also is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was named USA Book News' Best Professional Book and earned the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin award and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success winner of USA Book News Award, Reader Views Literary Award and her marketing campaign for the book took New Generation Indie Award for Marketing. Howard-Johnson's other blogs are www.warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com and www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com. Howard-Johnson may be reached at (HoJoNews@aol.com) Information is also available at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com . The Writer's Digest site is www.writersdigest.com and Blog of the Day may be found at www.blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com. ### (Book of the Day Award logo, photos, book cover art and a full media kit are available electronically or by post upon request.)
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July 6, 2008 For Immediate Release
Writer's Digest Names Sharing with Writers 101 Best in 2008
Cincinnati: Brian A. Klems, online managing editor at Writer's Digest, named award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson's blog, Sharing with Writers (www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com) to his magazine's 101 Best Websites in 2008. Klems cites that the blog is full of "cheap ways to promote your book" but also mentions her Sharing with Writers newsletter as a source for writers. See the June, 2008, Issue, p. 54. Howard-Johnson is the author of a novel, book of creative nonfiction and poetry, all award-winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43rd and 44th Districts of the California Legislature. She speaks on Utah's culture, tolerance and subjects relating to writing and publishing and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is also is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was named USA Book News' Best Professional Book and earned the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin award and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success winner of USA Book News Award, Reader Views Literary Award and her marketing campaign for the book took New Generation Indie Award for Marketing. Howard-Johnson blogs at www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com, www.warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com and www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com. Howard-Johnson may be reached at (HoJoNews@aol.com) Information is also available at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com . The Writer's Digest site is www.writersdigest.com . ###
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June 19, 2008 Author Advocate Named to Cohost New Borders Best Selling Author TV Series Rey Ybarra, CEO of Best Selling Author Television, has named author Carolyn Howard-Johnson cohost of his new on location series to debut this summer at Borders Books in Century City, CA.
The program will feature many of today’s best selling authors and will be broadcast live online on Stickam. In addition to the live Internet broadcast, the program will be available on demand on the Best Selling Author Television.com vlog site (http://www.veoh.com/channels/BSATV ).
In addition, the program will be available on many of the social video sites including Veoh, Myspace, Youtube, Google and the Facebook social media sites.
Ybarra, formerly a well-known Los Angeles radio host says, “I am excited about the program and the association with Borders and with Howard-Johnson. I'm also excited about our programs featuring famous athletes, business/entrepreneurial experts and entertainers.” Ybarra is a master interviewer who has hosted and produced over 1400 interviews plus 350 full length radio.
Howard-Johnson speaks at writers conferences across the nation and is a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor. She is author of the multi-award winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers (www.howtodoitfrugally), as well as of fiction and poetry.
For more information about the show, the line up and dates and times of filming, contact Ybarra at 818-464-3726 or e-mail him at RYbarra106@aol.com. Media Release
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June 1, 2008 Contact: Patrika Vaugh E-Mail: acappub@aol.com
Author and Publisher Team to Offer Free Teleseminar on Bringing A Writers' Dream to Life
Author advocate Carolyn Howard-Johnson and publisher Patrika Vaughn are teaming up to present a free teleseminar to writers who want to tell their own stories, as memoir or as fiction. Thus it is for genealogists, journalists and story tellers everywhere.
The
teleseminar titled "How To
Write Your Life Story" will be moderated by
award-winning speaker and author, Allyn Evans who is also the author of Grab
the Queen Power: Live Your Best Life, based on her own experiences.
Howard-Johnson will share her experience of turning her family's genealogy and stories in her award-winning novel This Is the Place and using the leftover stories from that effort in a book of creative nonfiction short stories, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered. Her experiences will inform those inclined to publish their stories but who need more information about how that might come to be. She even used family memories in her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. All three books are multiple award-winners. She is also working on a memoir, Here's How I Don't Cook.
Vaughn, author of How to Write Your Own Life Story or Your Family's Saga, will talk about how to turn this material into a book, covering: 1) why you should write it 2) how to go about it (even if you've never before written anything but emails) 3) how to make it interesting to others
Writers are invited to listen and come prepared with their questions at noon on July 12th EST . Call 1-218-936-7999. When prompted use this access code: 390175. If asked participants may need this pin number: 2823.
The teleconference will be available as a podcast afterward at :
Those with questions may contact Patrika at .acappub@aol.com
The seminar is offered as a service to the writing community through HowToDoItFrugally and Vaughn's publishing firm, A Cappela Publishing (www.acapella.com).
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For Immediate Release Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
The Once-A-Year News Event
When Polygamy Rises to Headline Status Radio Hosts Producers and Feature Editors Call on Carolyn
"Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the one author and speaker who has seen Utah's culture from both the Nonmormon side of the fence and the Mormon. She has no ax to grind, only the ability to tell it like it is." ~Erika Lamoureaux, MA, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociologist
The multi award-winning novel This Is the Place keeps Carolyn Howard-Johnson on the speaking circuit and featured in the press long after the book was published. That's because the fictionalized account of her life doesn't take to task the culture she was raised in nor does it disparage. It is a story of five generations of Utah women who married into Mormonism. Based on the author's own genealogy and experiences living in a divided home and society, readers get a clear idea of what present day Mormonism is like and how it is influenced by its polygamist heritage. It dispels present day myths about both the religion and culture while satisfying a reader's interest in a unique American culture. The author says, "Much has been written about the distinctive mores of our American South, a little about our Quakers and Amish but very, very little about Utah and Mormonism, especially the mainstream religion and especially by someone who has a clear perception of how it is both similar and different from other areas in the US." The Mormon religion based in Utah now has more than six million members and is quite separate from the polygamist groups that keep cropping up in the news. Still there are similarities because polygamy, after all, is a root that runs deep. Howard-Johnson is the person to clarify in these days of Warren Jeffs, Elizabeth Smart and Texas's YFZ group. Her opinions on them may amaze audiences but they will never bore them. Howard-Johnson's literary work, including her novel, a book of creative nonfiction called Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings, have all been informed by her dual heritage growing up in Utah and her life outside that community since then. She will be signing her how-to books on writing at Book Expo America Friday, Booths 835 and 837 at 11 am but is available for appointments in person the entire weekend and by phone thereafter. Reach her at HoJoNews@aol.com or 818-790-0502.
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May, 2008
For Immediate Release
Indie Book Awards Gives Carolyn Howard-Johnson a Double Honor
Chelsea, MI -- Good things come in two's as well as threes. Awards administrator for Indie Book Awards C. Goulet announced that the marketing campaign waged for The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success won their Best Marketing Award. As a winner The Frugal Editor will be listed in the contest catalog which will be distributed at Book Expo America in Los Angeles later this month and will be featured on the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group Web site. The contest is designed to honor exemplary books and marketing efforts of small and independent publishers. Actually good things do come in threes and even fours. The Frugal Editor also won first-place acclaim from USA Book News and Reader Views. Howard-Johnson is the author of a novel, book of creative nonfiction and poetry, all award-winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43rd and 44th Districts of the California Legislature. She speaks on Utah's culture, tolerance and subjects relating to writing and publishing and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is also is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was named USA Book News' Best Professional Book and earned the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin award. Howard-Johnson may be reached at (HoJoNews@aol.com) Complete information is available in downloadable media kits in the media room at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com . . ###
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For Immediate Release May 17, 2008 Author’s newsletter Jozette Aaron publishes an international writer’s newsletter – DeSilva’s News Author Jozette Aaron, editor and publisher of DeSilva’s News, an international newsletter for writers has added Carolyn Howard-Johnson to her roster of columnists. Subscribers to DeSilva's come from eight countries around the globe. It is a tool writers rely on to meet their creative needs. All subscribers receive f r e e promotion as well as information on honing their skill through columns written by other authors, links to available resources, writer’s courses and more. Howard-Johnson is the multi-award-winning author of the HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, "The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need To Know To Sell Your Book in 20 Minutes or Less," an Amazon Short, and award-winning books of fiction and poetry. Aaron has published short stories in anthologies as well as online. She has a novel in progress and reviews books and for the Women’s Independent Press in Champagne, Illinois. Aaron says "I created DeSilva’s News to help other writers, especially the novice writer." She offers promotion to her subscribers to boost the confidence of those harboring doubt in their ability to produce publishable prose. It includes links for f r e e online courses, and, of course, the talents of several well-published writers like Howard-Johnson. Writers may subscribe to the newsletter at http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/desilvasnews. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.howtodoitfrugally.com-----
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The response was huge, and Anne Louise was among those who asked for an e-handout. Howard-Johnson says, "I'm a great recycler. Think of the paper we saved!" . The two writers started e-mailing, and now Howard-Johnson's "Sharing with Writers" newsletter has a creative new columnist, one Anne Louise Reinhard, to fill a previously empty niche -- humor writing. Howard-Johnson says, "Even my subscribers who aren't humorists can learn something from Anne Louise's 'Humor Hints.' Even a serious book proposal can benefit from a touch of humor."
Writers interested in the author's "Sharing with Writers" newsletter filled with tips on craft,
promotion and tech may send an e-mail with "Subscribe" in the subject
line to
HoJoNews@aol.com. Learn more about her at
www.howtodoitfrugally.com
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For Immediate Release April 22, 2008 The Greatest Book Show on Earth
Award-Winning Author Center Ring as USA Book News Award-Winner
Award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be a featured author at the USA Book News booth (#835 to #837) at the nation's premier book event, Book Expo America, on Friday, May 29. This year the famous tradeshow will be at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Friday, the 29th, through Sunday. Publishing professionals can make their BEA reservations and get information about the event here: http://www.bookexpoamerica.com Howard-Johnson will be signing her new Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. It won USA Book News' top award in the publishing category and well as Reader Views Literary Award in that category. The Frugal Editor is the second in the author's HowToDoItFrugally series after The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't. Howard-Johnson has a new blog where authors can find help with editing—anything from grammar to formatting. Anyone may submit questions or just read up on past blog entries. The address is www.TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com. The Frugal Editor was written, Howard-Johnson says, because "there are gremlins out there determined to keep authors' work from being published, our books from being promoted. They resolve to embarrass us before gatekeepers who can turn the key of success for us. They lurk in out subconscious and the depths of our computer programs." The Frugal Editor will help writers of every ilk present whistle-clean copy (whether it's a one-page cover letter or an entire manuscript) to those who have the power to say "Yea" or "Nay." Howard-Johnson was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43rd and 44th District of the California Legislature. Her first novel, This is the Place, and her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, are both multiple award winners. She speaks frequently at writers' conferences, is an instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide, as both a commercial actor and as a talk show guest. The author's first book in the HowToDoItFrugally series was named USA Book News' Best Professional Book and given the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award. At the famous Book Expo America where the publishing industry convenes at different cities throughout the nation in different years, nationally known authors will sign and give copies of their new releases to publishing professionals. Among those signing or speaking, visitors will find Michael Moore, Jon Krakauer and Judy Blume.
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March 20, 2008
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
For Immediate Release Frugal
Editor Wins Best Publishing Book in Reader Views 2007 Annual Literary
Awards Austin, Texas -- The second book in the HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, The Frugal Editor, was selected as the best publishing book of 2007 by Reader Views Annual Literary Awards. Reader Views Managing Editor Irene Watson says, “Reader Views reviews more than 2,000 books per year from budding authors who have worked hard to achieve their dream of being published." The Reader Views Annual Literary Awards are granted in 20 fiction and 30 nonfiction categories, as well as 15 specialized, sponsored categories. The entries are judged by Reader Views reviewers, all avid readers with a wide range of experiences, considered experts in their respective fields. This is the second award for The Frugal Editor, published by Red Engine Press. The first is USA Book News Best Writing/Publishing Book. Howard-Johnson says, "There are gremlins out there determined to keep your work from being published, your book from being promoted. They are resolved to embarrass you before the gatekeepers who can turn the key of success for you. The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success will help authors present whistle-clean copy (whether it's a one-page cover letter or their entire manuscript) to those who have the power to say "Yea" or "Nay." The book may be purchased at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/ Howard-Johnson is a popular speaker and an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program. She is also a writer of fiction and poetry. 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." Reader Views is an Austin, Texas, based company that publishes reviews and offers publicity services to authors. Now they are a one-stop center for budding authors. For more information, visit www.readerviews.com. Reader Views is currently accepting submissions for the 2008 Literary Awards. Entry information, registration forms and further information can be found online at http://www.readerviews.com/Awards.html. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.howtodoitfrugally.com. She blogs at www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com and www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com. Learn more about Red Engine Press at www.redenginepress.com . ### Support Material on Request ~~~~ M E D I A R E L E A S E March 15, 2008 For Immediate Release
Carolyn Howard-Johnson to present at Catholic Writers Conference Online
World Wide Web--Carolyn Howard-Johnson will host a workshop on editing at the first annual Catholic Writers’ Conference Online, Monday,.May 8 at 1 pm EST. She will co-present a seminar with Karina Fabian on book promotion that same day at 2 pm. The conference runs from May 2 to 9, 2008 The conference,
sponsored by the Catholic Writers Guild and Canticle Magazine and
conducted entirely through the Internet, is free of charge and open to
writers of all levels. It will feature online seminars, chats, and
forums throughout the week on a variety of topics covering writing both
fiction and non-fiction, submitting manuscripts to publishers and
marketing your books--and yourself. Over 20 workshops are scheduled with
more still in the works, according to Howard-Johnson joins top names in the Catholic publishing industry and other skilled presenters, including: best-selling authors Donna-Marie O’Boyle and Tom Grace; editors Heidi Hess Saxton (Canticle), Vinita Hampton Wright (Loyola Press), Ami McConnell (Thomas Nelson); and agents like Terry Burns. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's has appeared on more than 300 TV and radio shows. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program and award-winning author of fiction and poetry. She is also the author of the HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers including The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004," and the winner of the coveted Irwin Award. The second in the series is The Frugal Editor, also a USA Book News winner. 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." Her Web site is www.HowToDoItFrugally.com. She Squidoos at http://www.squidoo.com/HowToDoItFrugallyforAuthors and blogs at www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com. Karina Fabian, president of Catholic Writers Guild and chair of the event, said the conference gives writers an unprecedented opportunity to learn and network. “Online Conferences are ideal for writers, and especially for those who are shy, have physical disabilities or are on a tight budget. We’re harnessing the power of the Internet to reach people worldwide to support each other in our writing and our faith.” Early registration is recommended, as some courses will have limited openings that will be filled on a first-come, first serve basis. Donations are accepted; proceeds will go toward future conferences. To register or for more information, go to http://www.conference.catholicwritersguild.org.
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Registrations now open for the Muse Online Writers Conference Lea Schizas and Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be hosting their third annual Muse Online Writers Conference on October 13 – 19. The conference offers new and seasoned writers over 120 FREE workshops each year held over the course of one week. Last year, there were close to 2000 writers who attended from all over the world: USA , Canada , Mexico , Africa , England , Italy , Greece , India , New Zealand , Turkey , Australia …to name a few. Some of the Presenters back once again this year are:
For more information on the Muse Online Writers Conference: http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/ To register as an attendee: http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/registration.htm To apply as a Presenter: http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/presentersregistration.htm
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Catholic Writers to Hold Online Conference
World Wide Web--Writers, editors, agents, and other publishing professionals from around the world are gearing up for the first annual Catholic Writers’ Conference Online, which will be held May 2-9, 2008, and is sponsored by the Catholic Writer’s Guild and Canticle magazine. The online conference is free of charge and open to writers of all levels for those who register by April 25. Author and editor Carolyn Howard-Johnson, who with conference chair Karina Fabian will be conducting seminars designed to help authors put their “Best Book Forward,” concurs. “It's never too early to learn more about what we love…. When we put ourselves out there, the universe seems to bring us exactly what we need. When we close down on opportunity for whatever reason, we miss getting what we should.” New seminar and chat topics are being added constantly, including seminars on character and dialogue development, virtual book tours, how to get grants and other money with your writing, trends in fiction, world building, and connecting with a secular audience. Presenters and chat hosts include Vinita Wright (Loyola Press), Maya Bohnhoff, Tim Powers, Mark Shea (Catholic Answers), Hope Clark (Funds for Writers), Sr. Madonna Radcliff (Pauline Books & Media), Bert Ghezzi (Word Among Us), and Brian Saint-Paul (Crisis/Inside Catholic). “We’re very happy with the caliber of publishing professionals who have volunteered to participate in this first conference,” says event co-chair Heidi Hess Saxton, editor of Canticle magazine. “There is a nice mix of fiction and non-fiction as well as book and magazine publishing represented here. Something for everyone … and you can’t beat the price!” Although the conference is offered free of charge, donations are accepted; proceeds will go toward future conferences. Hope Clark, author of “Funds for Writers” is also optimistic about the event’s success. “I see writers … unable to run from conference to conference, seated before a computer soaking up information, taking notes, excited about finding answers to questions they didn't even know they had. I see writers walking away from this conference excited again about being writers.” Early registration is recommended, as some courses will have limited openings that will be filled on a first-come, first serve basis. To register or for more information, go to http://www.conference.catholicwritersguild.org.
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March 8, 2008
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson to Talk Book Fairs to Publicists Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of two USA Book News' Best Professional Book awards, will share her secrets for taking a book fair signing out of the realm of hum-drum to make it a sizzling success at the Thursday, Apri 17 meeting of Book Publicists of Southern California at the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City. Irwin Zucker, founder of the organization, says, "Carolyn has done so many booths and signings, she's made an art of perfecting it using what she calls value-added promotions." BPSC is a resource for publicists, authors and others associated with the publishing industry. The organizations publishes a member directory and newsletter (www.bookpublicists.org/pages/newsletter.asp) ., sponsors events (www.bookpublicists.org/pages/events.asp) and gives out the IRWIN (www.bookpublicists.org/pages/irwin_award.asp) awards to help foster industry excellence. Howard-Johnson's The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't is a past winner of the coveted award and and both that book and the second in her HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success are USA Book News Best Book award winners. The event includes dinner. Sportsmen's Lodge is at 12825 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. A mixer at 5:30 is the epitome of promotion in action. Dinner at 6:30 is $35 and the program only is $10. Reservations may be made at irwinzuckerpr@aol.com. The author's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction has won three. She is an extension division instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers’ Program and speaks at writers' conferences nationwide. Amazon recently published her how-to that shows how authors can learn to write great book proposals with 49 cents and 20 minutes of time. It is The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need To Know To Sell Your Book in 20 Minutes or Less. Howard-Johnson's first chapbook of poetry, Tracings, was honored by the Military Writers' Society of America and the Compulsive Read. It is available at http://finishinglinepress.com or Amazon.com Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com or www.howtodoitfrugally.com. Learn more about the BPSC at www.bookpublicists.org. # # # # Support Materials available on request.
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March , 2008
CONTACT: Rey Ybarra E-mail: rybarra106@aol.com
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BEST SELLING AUTHOR ONLINE INTERNET TV SHOW TEAMS WITH POPULAR AUTHORS' ADVOCATE TO COHOST
Carolyn Howard-Johnson has signed with CEO Rey Ybarra to serve as cointerviewer on Best Selling Author Television. Ybarra, interviews authors for his online video programming and who has interviewed many well-known authors such as Tony Robbins, Dan Millman, John Gray and Joan Borysenko to name a few. The program “Brings Local Authors to a National Audience” through the power and leverage of the Internet. The show can be seen anytime, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by going to http://bestsellingauthortv.blogspot.com/. Find excellent write-ups, great photos and terrific interviews of each author. You can even leave comments on the Best Selling Author vlog. Howard-Johnson is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and the award-winning author of literary fiction and poetry. She is also 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, and the soon-to-be-released The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. She has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV stations nationwide. The Benefits of Best Selling Author Internet Television Programming:
If you are an author and want to find out more about participating on the program to promote your book, you may contact Rey Ybarra at 818-464-3726 or by email at Rybarra106@aol.com. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com. ~~~ M E D I A R E L E A S E
March 3, 2008
CONTACT: Kathe Gogolewski E-mail: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net
For Immediate Release TRI Studio Announces Winners of the Out-Of-The-Box Promotion Contest For WritersMarch, 2008 TRI Studio LLC www.tri-studio.com announces the winners of the Out-of-the-Box Promotion Contest for Writers, featured in The Fiction Flyer, a free e-zine for writers at www.tri-studio.com/ezine.html Judged by promotion guru Carolyn Howard-Johnson, the contest called for largely untested promotion ideas for writers and underscored fun, original and interesting ideas. The use of technology was encouraged. Winners and Honorable Mentions will be highlighted in a new e-book, Out-of-the-Box Promotion for Writers: Contest Winners and Their Ideas, available as a free distribution for writers in April, 2008. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, www.carolynhoward-johnson.com, award-winning author of bestsellers The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won’t and The Frugal Editor, selected author Janet Elaine Smith’s novel entry idea, Google Alerts in Your Marketing Plan, as the first place winner. The second place award is a tie between authors Phil Harris and Allyn Evans. Harris submitted an idea for a Video Tour Collage and Evans’ idea for an Amazon Tour Group also captured the fancy of Howard-Johnson. Cash prizes and certificates are awarded to the winners. The First Runner-Up is author Billie Williams for her idea Watching the Way a Mystery Writer Writes. Honorable Mentions go to authors Mindy Phillips Lawrence, Karina Fabian, Nikki Leigh, Margot Finke, Dorothea Buckingham, and Jessica Kennedy. Full details on the promotion ideas and the winning authors will be featured in the e-book. Out-of-the-Box Promotion for Writers: Contest Winners and Their Ideas, will be posted as a free download at TRI Studio, www.tri-studio.com, in The Fiction Flyer, www.tri-studio.com/ezine.html and at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com. Writers and authors are invited to feature the e-book on their Web sites as a resource for writers. Contact Carolyn Howard-Johnson at hojonews@aol.com for details.
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February 15, 2008
CONTACT: Marilyn Dalyrymple E-mail: marilyn160@verizon.net
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February 3, 2008
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
For Immediate Release So Who Cares If a Newsletter's Long? Neglected Poets Get Attention in Popular Sharing With Writers Newsletter Award-winning poet Carolyn Howard-Johnson decided to quit neglecting her poet pals and include a segment specifically for poets in her popular newsletter, Sharing with Writers. It's about time. Sharing with Writers was originally conceived to help all writers, just as Howard-Johnson's HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers was. Instituted some three years ago, the newsletter was so jam-packed with tips, articles and a question and answer feature that she felt one more segment would make the letter too long. Still, many subscribers were poets. And they were faithful readers. Howard-Johnson says, "It just occurred to me that many poets were writers of other material and that the opposite might be true if more writers were exposed to the advantages of knowing the elements of poetry. I mean you can use alliteration effectively in headlines! Besides, if I put out a long newsletter each week, hardly anyone will notice if it's a little longer." Thus the segment "On Poetry" was born. Last week Howard-Johnson shared a tip from a poet who sells her chapbooks at Venice Beach. This year she recommends a book on shopping one's poetry that every poet should read. Howard-Johnson, better known as The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor (www.howtodoitfrugally.com), came to marketing and editing through experience in those fields but also as the author of This is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, and a poetry collection Tracings, which was given an award of excellence by the Military Writers' Society of America and was named to Compulsive Readers' Ten Best Reads list. She has also collaborated with Magdalena Ball on what may be the first e-chapbook of poetry, Cherished Pulse. Find information on Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com. Subscription information for Sharing with Writers may be found at www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com. For more information on
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January 25, 2008
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
For Immediate Release
Amazon.com Is a Publisher, Too!
Award-winning Poets Co-Author Chapbook Published as an Amazon Short
Since Jeff Bezos's online conglomerate entered the publishing field with a concept they called Shorts, authors everywhere have been thrilled to have their promotional power behind them. Recently they accepted a book of poetry co-authored by award-winning poets, Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball. She Wore Emerald Then was conceived by the pair as an alternative to the sugary greeting cards usually available for mothers in card shops. Amazon Shorts are only 49 cents, can be sent to a recipient instantly at no additional cost, and are far more inclusive that the casual card or momento. All kinds of writing is available, from short stories to how-to pieces. Ball, an Australian poet, says "Chapbooks have been a tradition among poets for centuries. Mother's Day is on the way and the electronic aspect of the Amazon Short program made Shorts an ideal way for Carolyn and me to collaborate once again ." This will be Howard-Johnson's second Short. The first is The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need To Sell Your Book in 20 Minutes or Less. Her chapbook Tracings was honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America and named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads. She is the author of several other award-winning books. She is also an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Magdalena Ball is the author of the novel Sleep Before Evening, which has received unanimous 5-star reviews for its linguistic beauty and the intensity of its plot. She is also the author of an award-winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup, and a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her Web site The Compulsive Reader, http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, has become a benchmark for high quality online literary criticism, and has been growing steadily in the eight years since its launch. The two collaborated last year on a book of what Howard-Johnson calls "unsyrupy" poetry for Valentines Day. It is available at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/cherishedpulse.htm Artwork for She Wore Emerald Then is by May Lattanzio. She is a freelance writer/photographer, Amazon Shorts author (Paradise and The Last Striper, with more to come) and author of Waltz on the Wild Side -- An Animal Lover's Journal and contributor to Native West's anthology Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West - A Tribute". Learn more about Magdalena Ball at http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/MediaRoom.htm Learn More about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
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January 7, 2008
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
For Immediate Release
Award-Winning Author Continues Trend
Frugal Book Promoter Named 2007 Top Ten Star Reno, NV. - Kristie Leigh Maguire, publisher of Star Publish, announced that Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s how-to book for writers, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t, is her firm's top seller for 2007. The Frugal Book Promoter is a USA Book News Best Book and a winner of Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award. It is the first in Howard-Johnson's How To Do It Frugally series of books for writers. The second is the newly released The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success, also a USA Book News award winner. Howard-Johnson, an instructor at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, chose to have the book published in both e-book format and paperback in order to give both emerging authors and her struggling students affordable and convenient choices. Whichever format a reader chooses, The Frugal Book Promoter assures an author’s book the best possible start in life. Full of nitty-gritty how-tos for getting nearly free publicity, the author shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the successes of her own book campaigns. A former publicist, she tells authors how to do what their publishers can’t or won’t and why authors can often do their own promotion better than a PR professional. Below you will find the ten top selling Star books with their Amazon links:
Frugal Book Promoter is available in a full 250 page e-book format at: http://starpublish.com/starbooks.htm . Look for it in paperback at Amazon.com and other bookstores. It is also available as an Amazon Kindle book. Learn more about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at http://www.authorsden.com/carolynhowardjohnson . # # # # Support materials available on request. ~~~~~ M E D I A R E L E A S E
December 07, 2007
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
For Immediate Release Amazon Short Program a Fit for Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Plans to Help Authors Los Angeles - Carolyn Howard-Johnson is partnering with Amazon Shorts, a program that brings short pieces from published authors for the amazing price of 49 cents. Shorts include nonfiction and how-tos, short stories, poetry collections and more. Howard-Johnson, the author of five published books available on Amazon, says, "I have consulting clients who hate to learn the proposal and synopsis process. There are many good books out there on the subject but I needed to lead these authors through the process easily and fast. Thus The Great First Impression Book Proposal was born. Amazon's short program seemed made for it. Amazon is a true publisher. They put the work out their and publicize it to the reading public." Daniel Slater, editor at Amazon, and his team put together a cover and shepherded The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in 20 Minutes or Less through the process in less than six weeks. Howard-Johnson says, "They have been very responsive, excellent communicators." Howard-Johnson is no stranger to publishing or to awards. Her novel, This is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening, won three and her chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press) won the award of excellence from the Military Writers Societyof America. The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success and The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't are both USA Book News Award winners in the publishing and writing category. Her marketing campaign for those books won the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award. The author is an extension division instructor for UCLA’s renowned Writers’ Program and speaks at writers' conferences nationwide. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature and American Business Women's Association (ABWA) named her Outstanding Woman. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com or http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com. She blogs at
www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com,
www.sharingwithwriting.blogspot.com, www.sizzlingbookfairbooths.blogspot.com, www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com, and www.warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com. Find The Great First Impression Book Proposal at http://www.amazon.com/Great-First-Impression-Book-Proposal/dp/B000YG6O5U/ # # # # Support Materials including Short cover art is available on request. ~~~
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November 2, 2007
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
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USA BOOK NEWS NAMES CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON'S
FRUGAL EDITOR BEST PUBLISHING BOOK IN
LOS ANGELES – Thursday (Nov. 1, 2007), USA Book News, the premiere online magazine and review Web site for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced Carolyn Howard-Johnson's The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success the National Best Book Awards (BBA) in the category of business and publishing. on November 1, 2007. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USABookNews.com, said this year’s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries, which were then narrowed down to winners and finalists. Howard-Johnson is no stranger to awards. HerThe novel, This is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening, won three and the companion book to The Frugal Editor, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't is an Irwin award winner. Howard-Johnson's chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press) won the award of excellence from the Military Writers Association of America.
The authors is an extension division instructor for UCLA’s reknowned Writers’ Program and speaks at writers' conferences nationwide. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature and American Business Women's Association (ABWA) named her Outstanding Woman.
Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Penguin-Putnam, HarperCollins, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Co., John Wiley & Sons & hundreds of independent titles contributed to this year’s outstanding BBA competition. Keen adds, “BBA’s success begins with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise.” USABookNews.com is an online publication providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world online community. USABN Magazine Online is the monthly electronic magazine e-mailed free to a large cross-section of the book buying public. JPX Media, in Los Angeles, California, is the parent company of USABookNews.com. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com or http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com
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October 2, 2007
CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
For Immediate Release The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward To Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success reached the top ten in its category (editing) on Amazon in presale efforts.
The Frugal Editor is the second in the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers after The Frugal Editor: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't which is a USA Book News Best Professional Book and Irwin Award Winner. The Frugal Editor helps writers jigger their computers to work with them instead of against them to produce everything from picture-perfect query letters to full manuscripts. It also includes advice from 20 of the nation's top agents on how to avoid appearing like an amateur and a appendices that include contact information for those agents. The Frugal Editor will foil the gremlins out there determined to keep authors' works from being published, their books from being promoted. They—resolved to embarrass writers before the gatekeepers who can turn the key of success for them—lurk in their subconscious minds and the depths of their computer programs. With the release of Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s The Frugal Editor writers can take control of their own futures—from first query letter to final galley. This new how-to book is second in the How To Do It Frugally Series, accessible at http://howtodoitfrugally.com. The author says, "This series is the result of a combination of experience gained through trial and error in promoting my own literary works and my professional experience in marketing, PR, journalism, editing and publishing in general." Howard-Johnson in an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California legislature. In addition to dozens of literary awards and honors, she was also honored by her city's Ethics Committee and the Pasadena Weekly. She was also recently named outstanding woman by American Business Women's Association. The Frugal Editor is available for pre-orders at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Frugal-Editor-forward-humiliation-success/dp/0978515870/). Its official release was October 1, 2007
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M E D I A R E L E A S ESeptember 27, 2007 For Immediate Release
For Immediate Release Educators' Week a Feature of Authors' Coop Booth at West Hollywood Fair
West Hollywood -- During this week designated to honor educators, Authors' Coop will feature teachers in its booth at the West Hollywood Book Fair this Sunday, Sept. 30. Among those signing at the AC booth (Booth #51-52F) will be educators Carol J. Amato, Janet Goliger and Carolyn Howard-Johnson. The fair is at the West Hollywood Park, 647 N San Vicente Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069. It features a variety of pavilions with free panels and seminars. Howard-Johnson is an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Her books in the HowToDoItFrugally.com Series of books for writers are recommended reading for her classes. Goliger is a teacher for Glendale Unified Schools and writes on self defense for children and Amato is a prolific writer of texts and how-tos for graduate students. Other authors signing are Christine Alexanians, Kevin Gerard, Margaret Danielak, Erica Stux, Leora Krygier, Walter Brasch, Jay Bern, Sona Ovasapyan, Michael Wallach, and Nance Rosen. Their books include everything from nonfiction to poetry to genre fiction. Students Alexa Gregorian and Rita Gabrielyan will serve as aids to earn volunteer credits required by their schools as well. More information on the West Hollywood Book Festival may be found at. http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/ <http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/> Both the fair and the presentations are presented at no charge. For a schedule of author signing times go to http://www.sizzlingbookfairbooths.blogspot.com.
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Authors' Coop Readies Third Semi-Annual All-Tips IssueGlendale, 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 the "Sharing with Writers." newsletter. 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. Subscribers are 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. Interested authors may subscribe to the letter by sending an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to HoJoNews@aol.com. Also for authors is a blog focused on making humdrum booth at a book fair into a rousing success by using value-added promotions, (http://sizzlingbookfairbooths.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 winnner, 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 .
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M E D I A R E L E A S E September 07, 2007 Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
For
Immediate Release Publishing Panel Moderated by the HowToDoItFrugally Author
West Hollywood -- Carolyn Howard-Johnson will moderate a panel, "Reach for Your Dream: Prepare for Publication the Professional Way" at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, September 30. at 1:00 pm at the Writer's Pavilion. She promises, "Even those who are old hands at publishing will learn something new."
Panelist are June Casagrande, Ina Hillebrandt, Christopher Meeks, and Elizabeth Pomeroy. Authors and publishers all, each will speak to their experiences publishing in a different way.
Howard-Johnson says, "There is no one right way to publish. Each title, each author, each pocketbook may demand something different." She is the author of This Is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, and Tracings, a chapbook of poetry. All are multi award-winners. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and has shared her expertise on publishing and writing at venues like San Diego State's world renowned Writers' Conference and Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop. She was awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature.
Howard-Johnson will also sign her newly-released The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success after the panel discussion and all day at the Authors' Coop booth.
More information on the West Hollywood Book Festival may be found at. http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/ <http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/> Both the fair and the presentations are presented at no charge.
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Learn more about Chris Meeks at www.chrismeeks.com, about June Casagrande at www.grammarsnobs.com, about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at www.howtodoitfrugally.com, about Elizabeth Pomeroy at www.newmoonspress.com and about Ina Hillebrandt at www.inaspawprints.com.
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Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com Fax: 818-790-4299 Phone: 818-790-0502 Sept. 2007
For Immediate Release
Business Women Honor Author
Anaheim, CA -- Award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson will receive the American Business Women's Association's (ABWA) Outstanding Woman Award at the their 19th national American Business Women's Day Celebration, Sat., Sept. 8, at the Embassy Suites Hotel, Anaheim, CA. Lynn White Shelby, of the Verdugo Glen Chapter, Glendale, CA, nominated her for the award.
The ABWA is an organization that brings together businesswomen of diverse occupations and provides opportunities for personal and professional growth. Their motto "Together we can do it" unites tens of thousands of members throughout the world who benefit from membership and its national magazine Women in Business.
Howard-Johnson is the author of a novel, book of creative nonfiction and poetry, all award-winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43rd and 44th Districts of the California Legislature. She speaks on Utah's culture, tolerance and subjects relating to writing and publishing and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is also is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was named USA Book News' Best Professional Book and earned the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin award and her newest book, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success will be released Oct. 1. Howard-Johnson may be reached at (HoJoNews@aol.com) Information is also available at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com . The ABWA site is www.abwa.org. ### (Photos, book cover art and a full media kit are available electronically or by post upon request.)
M E D I A R E L E A S E Sept., 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dayton's Pen To Paper Literary Symposium FeaturesEditing/Marketing Expert Carolyn Howard-Johnson
(Dayton, OH) – Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be one of the internationally known authors featured at the fourth annual Pen To Paper Literary Symposium, sponsored by the Mark Baker Foundation and Pen of the Writer in Dayton, Ohio. Valerie Coleman, symposium coordinator says, “The Pen To Paper Literary Symposium provides a wealth of information on the art of and business of writing. “Attendees gain insight from mainstream and self-published authors, editors, agents and an attorney. This year we’ve expanded the symposium to include sessions for music and screen writing.” It will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2007 at the Dayton Urban League (www.daytonurbanleague.com ), 907 West Fifth Street. Sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program, will share her expertise on effective marketing techniques both in the editing of a book and its promotion. She is the author of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't which won USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004 and the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award and the newly-released the Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. She was also named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature. Victoria Christopher Murray (www.VictoriaChristopherMurray.com), an Essence bestselling author of six novels including A Sin and a Shame, Temptation and The Ex Files is also featured. The symposium includes an Author Showcase on Friday, October 5, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at Sinclair’s Ponitz Center. Aspiring writers, book clubs, avid readers and the public are invited to enjoy hors d’oeuvres, an on-site bookstore, and products and services from local businesses. There they can also meet and greet the contributing authors to the anthology Tainted Mirror and enjoy live music performances by Dayton’s own Tonya Baker (www.TonyaBaker.com), Christopher(www.MySpace.com/SpiritualRealSoul) and Deron Bell (www.DeronBell.com). A portion of the $10 admission goes to scholarships for students of the Passionate Pens program and Mark Baker Foundation (www.MarkBakerFoundation.org). Pen of the Writer is a publishing company founded by Dayton native, Valerie L. Coleman. It assists aspiring writers and authors through the process of publishing. For complete agenda and conference registration fees, contact Valerie Coleman at 937.307.0760, info@penofthewriter.com or visit www.PenoftheWriter.com/pentopaper .
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Author Awards the Noble (Not Nobel) Prize for Fifth Year Carolyn Howard-Johnson Takes On the Nobel Prize Committee for Sixth Year!Praised or maligned, the Nobel Prize for Literature is always news. It selects the best from the world and therefore misses much of value. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, “Back to Literature” columnist for MyShelf.com, closes the gap (only slightly) with her an annual “Noble (Not Nobel!) Prize for Literature.” Over the last years the Nobel committee has recognized authors for their literary expertise but there has also been a trend toward awarding the prize for, as Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Tim Rutten says, “an author’s particular relevance to the moral moment in which the world finds itself.” Howard-Johnson’s prize therefore concentrates on books that address these same issues. For her Noble Prize (as opposed to the NOBEL prize), Howard-Johnson considers books written in English (which narrows the field of prospects considerably) because Nobel has rather neglected writers who write in English over the years and because that is the language in which she . . . .ahem, reads, at least well enough. Howard-Johnson’s lists have included well-known authors who explore discrimination in their writing like Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison but she tries to concentrate on authors who have not been posted to bestseller lists or won major awards. Some past winners are LA's Leora G. Krygier and Randall Sylvis, New York's Leora Skokin Smith, Australia's Bob Rich and Magdalena Ball. Books nominated for the 2007 Noble Prize for Literature must be submitted by Sept 15, 2007. Published books and chapbooks of poetry, plays and literary novels are eligible., but may have been published in any year. Results are published each January on the "Back to Literature" page at www.MyShelf.com and on Howard-Johnson's New Book Review blog (www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com). Query Carolyn Howard-Johnson at HoJoNews@aol.com . Please put "NOBLE PRIZE QUERY" in the subject line. The prize is honorary only, no monies or gifts. Readers may nominate their favorite books and authors may nominate their own. Howard Johnson is no stranger to literary prizes. Her first, This Is the Place, won the Reviewers’ Choice Award after it was published in 2001 and went on to win seven other awards. A chapter from the book was a finalist in the Masters’ Literary Award and another was selected for inclusion in The Copperfield Review. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening, has won three awards, her Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was USA Book News' Best Professional Book of 2004 and the Irwin Award. Her chapook of poetry, Tracings, was named "Top 10 Reads for 2004" by The Compulsive Reader and given the Military Writers' Society of America's Award of Excellence. She is also an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://CarolynHoward-Johnson.com. Her efforts are sponsored by Editor Brenda Weeaks at MyShelf.com. Howard-Johnson's "Back to Literature" column may be found at http://myshelf.com/backtoliterature/column.htm, where book covers and comments on the winners are posted. ### (Pictures, media kits and other support materials are available electronically or by post upon request.) ----------
M E D I A R E L E A S EFor Immediate Release
HowToDoItFrugally Author Helps Writers Extend Life of Great Book Reviews
Sometimes a review so good comes along that authors are loathe to let it die. They might include it in their media kit or add it to their Web sites. Now its life can be extended even further with Carolyn Howard-Johnson's blog, The New Book Review. Here is a review blog that doesn't judge a book by its cover or by the press used to print it. If one reviewer loved a book, that qualifies it for more coverage. Authors are asked to follow the guidelines given in the left column of the blog and, in return, are asked only to let their fans and the media know it is there. That helps expose every review on the blog (a cross-promotion of sorts) and gives authors an opportunity to reach out to the public. The New Book Review blog (www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com) is an extension of how Carolyn extends cross promotion efforts beyond her books. Howard-Johnson is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and the award-winning author of literary fiction and poetry. She is also 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, and the soon-to-be-released The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Curious readers and writers will find reviews of works by authors like Yvonne Perry, Erica Stux, Joyce Anthony and Cheryl Kaye Tardiff who wrote the famous Whale Song. It includes reviews by well-known reviewers like Mayra Calvani and historians like Marshall Trimble. Scroll down on the blog page for submission guidelines. (www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com). More information on the blogger is available at http://www.carolynhoward-johnson.com and www.howtodoitfrugally.com. She also blogs at www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com and writes the Back to Literature column for www.MyShelf.com.
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For Immediate Release Writers Group Names Carolyn Howard-Johnson Honorary Member According to a joint announcement by Paulette Ensign(www.tipsbooklets.com), Board Member of the Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Andrew Chapman (http://achapman.com/) and Karla Olson (http://bookstudiobooks.com/), PWSD copresidents, Carolyn Howard-Johnson has been voted an honorary member of their group. They say, "PWSD has become more knowledgeable in the publishing industry, grown in numbers, and increased in professional enthusiasm as a direct result of [Howard-Johnson's] contribution." Howard-Johnson is the author of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004 and winner of the Irwin Award. Upon the release of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success in October of 2007, it will be the flagship book in what will then be the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books aimed at helping authors. The author's first novel, This is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction has won three. Her chapbook of poetry, Tracings, received Military Writers' Society of America Award of Excellence and was named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list. She is an extension division instructor for UCLA’s Writers’ Program and speaks at writers' conferences nationwide. She was also named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature. To learn more about PWSD go to http://www.PublishersWriters.org. Learn more about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com.
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Books Launch at New Hollywood Book FairCarolyn Howard-Johnson will introduce and sign her soon-to-be-released The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success at the new 2007 Hollywood Book Festival on Saturday, July 28, 2007 from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M at the Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027.Pamela Kelly will also be signing. Her new book is a perfect companion to The Frugal Editor because, in the first of Howard-Johnson's HowToDoItFrugally Series of books, she advises that speaking and teaching is the number one way to brand an author. Kelly's book is Speak With Passion Speak With Power!Janet Goliger will also sign. Her book is: I Need to be SAFE: I’m Worth It! – How to Protect Your Child from Danger.Howard-Johnson will showcase the first in her HowToDoItFrugally Series, the award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't. It is USA Book News' Best Professional Book and Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award winner for 2006.Howard-Johnson is also the author of This Is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, and Tracings, a chapbook of poetry. All are multi award-winners. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and has shared her expertise on publishing and writing at venues like San Diego State's world renowned Writers' Conference and Call to Arts! EXPO. She was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature.For more information on Goliger and for the booth number at this fair, go to http://www.classeducation.org).Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com and www.howtodoitfrugally.com.Information on Pam Kelly is available at www.speak-with-passion.com.More information on the new Hollywood Book Festival may be found at www.hollywoodbookfestival.com.
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Free Muse Online Writers Conference Becomes a 1,000-Strong Force for AuthorsThe Muse Online Writers Conference served more than 1,000 authors in its inaugural year and registrations are running double that in this, its second year. Scheduled for the week of October 8-14, the conference is sponsored by Lea Schizas and Carolyn Howard-Johnson. It was conceived to serve authors who otherwise may not be able attend onsite writers' conferences All workshops and presentations are free of charge for attendees, certainly appealing to emerging and starving authors and those homebound. A growing line-up of authors, publishers, editors and others who specialize in different aspects of building writing careers: Promotion, Shel Horowitz; Grant writing: Hope Clark; Publishing, Deron Douglas; Carolyn Howard-Johnson, promotion and editing; the king of writing book proposals, Terry Whalin; the Web site-for-authors guy, Marshall Turner, and many more. The online conference will feature a Virtual Interactive Chat Lounge where attendees will engage in real-time dialogue with presenters, Presenter, Kathe Gogolewski, says, "This conference is unique in that it offers the same benefits that other conferences but this one has unlimited seating, no crowding, more opportunities for interaction, and a smoke-free environment! This conference represents some of the best that technology has to offer!" Learn more at: http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/ Those interested in attending or presenting should email Lea Schizas at museitupeditor@yahoo.ca.
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Poets Take a Swipe at Hallmark Award winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball have teamed up to produce a book of love poetry which is anything but syrupy. The poems love in unconventional ways and offers mature, deep, reflective sentiment for those who want to say something a little richer, a little deeper than simply "I love you." According to Joyce Mishaan, AC Content Producer, "It’s a rough world and it’s easy to look around and feel that love is nothing more than a hopeless cliché." Cherished Pulse moves beyond those clichés, and explores real love -- the kind of love that may take many years to build. No pussyfooting. No excuses. It's a sensual, beautiful book which can be read again and again. Of the collection, Howard-Johnson, author of This is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, and a poetry collection Tracings, says, "I think there is a market for stuff that doesn't look and feel like Hallmark. I can never find a commercial card that isn't too mushy or too cutsey." The chapbook is a miracle made possible by the net; the two poets hail from different continents, Ball from Australia and Howard-Johnson from California, USA. Cherished Pulse, an e- chapbook of unconventional love poetry, perhaps an industry first. As a downloadable e-book, it costs less than a single paper card. It Give a copy with a rose the color of your choosing or a locket and watch your Valentine smile. Magdalena Ball is the author of the poetry collection Quark Soup and her novel Sleep Before Evening is due for publication early in 2007. Cherished Pulse also has original paintings by artist Vicki Thomas. For more information on Cherished Pulse,
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Author Awards the Noble (Not Nobel) Prize for Fifth Year Taking On the Nobel Prize Committee for Fifth Year! Praised or maligned, the Nobel Prize for Literature is always news. It selects the best from the world and therefore misses much of value. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, “Back to Literature” columnist for MyShelf.com, closes the gap (only slightly) with her an annual “Noble Prize for Literature.” Over the last years the Nobel committee has recognized authors for their literary expertise but there has also been a trend toward awarding the prize for, as Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Tim Rutten says, “an author’s particular relevance to the moral moment in which the world finds itself.” Howard-Johnson’s prize therefore concentrates on books that address these same issues. For her Noble Prize (as opposed to the NOBEL prize), Howard-Johnson considers books written in English (which narrows the field of prospects considerably) because writers who write in English have been rather neglected over the years and because that is the language in which she . . . .ahem, reads well enough. Howard-Johnson’s lists have included well-known authors who explore discrimination in their writing like Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison but she tries to concentrate on authors who have not been posted to bestseller lists or won major awards. Some past winners are LA's Leora G. Krygier and Randall Sylvis. The winners for 2006 just announced in January's issue of Myshelf are:
Bruce Bauman for And the Word Was (Other Press, 2005). Nominated by Susan Henderson. Carolyn Davidson for Redemption (HON Books--Harlequin). Nominated by Suzie Housley. Robert Eggleton for his e-book, Rarity from the Hollow (Fatcat Press). Nominated by Evelyn Somers. Dr. Bob Rich for his biography, Anikó. Helen Losse for her chapbook, Gathering the Broken Pieces #5 in the Poets on Peace series (Foothill Publishing). Nikki Arana for The Winds of Sonoma, (Revell). Magdalena Ball for her book of poetry, Quark Soup (Picaro Press, Warners Bay, Australia). Marcus Harris for his small book of poetry, Songs in Search of a Voice (Urban Echoes Entertainment, LLG). Two Rivers Review's Poetry Chapbook Series. Published three volumes at a time, Ron Mohring's #5 volume along with Michael McFee's and Lynne Knight's poetry. Anh Vu Sawyer and Pam Proctor for Song of Saigon (Warner Books). Eve La Salle Caram for Rena, A Late Journey (Plain View Press, Austin, TX). Nadia Brown for her book of poetry Unscrambled Eggs (Publish America). Hugh Rosen for Silent Battlefields (iUniverse). Karen Degroot Carter for One Sister's Song (Pearl Street Publishing). Howard Johnson is no stranger to literary prizes. Her first, This Is the Place, won the Reviewers’ Choice Award after it was published in 2001 and went on to win 7 other awards. A chapter from the book was a finalist in the Masters’ Literary Award and another was selected for inclusion in The Copperfield Review. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening, has won three awards, her Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't was USA Book News' Best Professional Book of 2004 and her new book of poetry, Tracings, was named "Top 10 Reads for 2004" by The Compulsive Reader and given the Military Writers' Society of America's Award of Excellence. She is also an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program. Learn more about Howard-Johnson at http://HowToDoItFrugally.com. Her efforts are sponsored by Editor Brenda Weeaks at MyShelf.com. Her "Back to Literature" column may be found at http://myshelf.com/backtoliterature/column.htm, where book covers and comments on the winters are posted. Howard-Johnson explores all things publishing and literary on her blog at http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com. ### (Pictures, media kits and other support materials are available electronically or by post upon request.)
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