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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.
Blog of the Day Award for The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In-Editor blog.
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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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A Retailer’s Guide To Frugal In-Store Promotions: How to Beat Out Competitors to Make Your Store the Go-To Place in Your Community Award: USA Book News Finalist, business
Retailers need more than crossed fingers to get and keep customers. In-store promotion—everything from in-store branding to events—is the most effective and economical way to do that. This book gives retailers the benefit of Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s nearly three decades experience as founder and manager of her own chain of stores, a stint as a New York publicist and as a retail consultant and journalist. It is the first in the Survive and Thrive series for retailers in her USA Book News award-winning HowToDoItFrugally.com books. For more information a review and a book trailer. ISBN: 9781441467249
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The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success Awards: Winner USA Book News Award, Reader Views Literary Award, New Generation Marketing
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There are gremlins out there determined to keep your work from being published, your book from being promoted. They -- resolved to embarrass you before the gatekeepers who can turn the key of success for you -- lurk in your subconscious and the depths of your computer programs. Whether you are a new or experienced author, The Frugal Editor will help you present whistle-clean copy (whether it's a one-page cover letter or your entire manuscript) to those who have the power to say "Yea" or "Nay." ISBN: 9780978515874
The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t Awards: Winner USA Book News Award, Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award
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For only a few cents a day The Frugal Book Promoter assures your book the best possible start in life. Full of nitty - gritty how - tos for getting nearly-free publicity, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, an instructor for UCLA’s Writers’ Program, shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the successes of her own book campaigns. 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. ISBN: 193299310X
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This is the Place: A Novel Based on a True Story Awards: Eight awards including Sime-Gen's Reviewer's Choice
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“When you live amidst beauty sometimes you don’t recognize discrimination and, if you do, you prefer not to acknowledge it.” A young journalist realizes that because she is half Mormon and half Protestant she is not suitable material for love. She delves into her Mormon heritage and journals her way through prejudice into redemption. She learns to mend her own life when she finds she cannot mend her world. This novel, set in Salt Lake City in the 50s, reveals not only complexities of the heart but the secrets of what some consider a mysterious place and culture. "This is the Place" has won eight awards including the Critics' Choice award. ISBN:1588523521 "Howard-Johnson strengthens her novel with behind-the-scenes details of Mormon life and history in a book suitable for all collections, particularly those where . . . Orson Scott Card's religious books are popular" ~ Library Journal
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Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered Awards: Three Awards including a New Millennium finalist for one of the stories
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Harkening explores the little white lies and solemn truths that one charming, idiosyncratic family loves to repeat. Each story is stitched to the next to become a saga of their sojourn from Michigan through a vanishing railroad town in New Mexico, then into Utah and finally (and happily), to a place where individuality can thrive. Harkening won three awards including Word Thunder's Excellence in Writing award. ISBN 1591295505
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Tracings, A Chapbook of Poetry Awards: Award of Excellence Military Writers Society of America, Compulsive Readers 10 Best List
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Tracings touches chords--both major and minor--for readers interested in nostalgia, tolerance, culture and aging. The author traces her life's experiences and for her it feels like "a movie reel running backwards." Tracings was named to the Compulsive Readers' Ten Best Reads list. This little chapbook comes with a navy satin ribbon bookmark, perfect for gift giving. Published by Finishing Line Press. ISBN:1599240173
She Wore Emerald Then, Reflections on Motherhood, A Chapbook of Poetry Co-Authored with Magdalena Ball Award: USA Book News Finalist, poetry
"[Both] poets continue to write poems that don't sound either like banal Hallmark cards or the bitter-at-dysfunctional-family jeremiads that habitually torture MFA writing workshop participants." ~Kristin Johnson, screenwriter and founder of the Warrior Poets Project She Wore Emerald Then is a collaboration on the subject of motherhood by award-winning poets Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard-Johnson, both of them mothers and daughters. They worked together on a book of love poetry called Cherished Pulse to the acclaim of reviewers. She Wore Emerald Then is illustrated with tender photographs by artist and poet May Lattanzio. As it happens, it was released the week of death of Carolyn's mother—a fitting tribute. When ordered from this site it comes with a yellow satin ribbon bookmark. Self-Published in the fine tradition of poets everywhere.
Cherished Pulse: An E-Book of Unconventional Love Poetry
Available FREE as a gift with the purchase of any book on this page. It's the honor system. You buy and you help yourself. Seriously. Cherished Pulse is Carolyn's and Magdalena Ball's first collaboration. It has been called "a chapbook of unsyrupy poetry" and was illustrated with the reproductions of oil paintings by California artist Vicki Thomas. Learn more about Cherished Pulse on this site.
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Purchase THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER as a thick, full-size e-book priced to accommodate the budgets of starving students and authors at Star Publish. Purchase THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER and THE FRUGAL EDITOR in trade paperback at Amazon. The Amazon Short, THE GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION BOOK PROPOSAL, too! Purchase THIS IS THE PLACE, HARKENING and TRACINGS at Amazon. Purchase CHERISHED PULSE at the Compulsive Reader. Purchase and find all the audios for writers at Tri-Studio. Come Facebook with me: http://facebookcom/carolynhowardjohnson
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