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Published Works Almanac Tolerance & Utah Links Editing & Publicity Services Media Room Speaking,Modeling Events & Teaching Awards Authors'Coalition Services Newsletter & Blogs Resources for Writers Resources for Readers E-mail Author Advertising Free Articles 4 Authors,Editors Consulting Travels with Carolyn

 

Major Credits at a Glance:

Journalism/Freelance

  • Good Housekeeping Magazine

  • Eleanor Lambert Publicity (fashion)

  • Salt Lake Tribune

  • Pasadena Star News

  • Glendale News-Press (an LA Times affiliate)

  • Home Decor Buyer (trade)

  • LA Gift Mart Buyer (trade)

Author

  • The Frugal Book Promoter

  • The Frugal Editor

  • The Great First Impression Book Proposal, an Amazon Short

  • Tracings (poetry)

  • Cherished Pulse (poetry)

  • Harkening

  • This Is the Place

Business Entrepreneur

  • Founder and operator of GalleryDecor and Carlan's

  • Santa Anita Race Track Gift Store

  • Founder Authors' Coalition

Please see "Published Works Almanac" on this site for others.

Recent media releases.

Unsolicited Endorsement

You're a wealth of experience and information. Wish I would have known about you before SILENCED CRY came out last year. Better late than never, huh?  Marta Stephens, author of A Silenced Cry.
 

 

 

Story Ideas from Carolyn Howard-Johnson for Editors, Staff Writers, Producers, and Media Hosts

 

Find Carolyn's Major Published Works at a Glance:

Frugal Book Promoter
Frugal Editor
Great Book Proposals
This Is the Place, A Novel
Harkening (Short Stories)
Tracings and Other Poetry
Published Shorter Works
Audio Handbooks for Writers

 

Download Carolyn's speaking-focused or general media kit from this page.

Find at least one promotion, writing or tech tip on every page on this site. Sometimes you'll find, two or three! Happy browsing and collecting!

 

Unsolicited Endorsements

"…enjoyable and informative marketing workshop last Sunday! You packed a lot of information and advice into six hours" ~ Laurie Dea Owyang, PENUSA Fellow

 

 

 

 

Looking for an Interest-Catching Feature?

Find controversial and thoughtful stories from Carolyn Howard-Johnson that fit with the next breaking news story.

Let veteran publicist and writer Carolyn Howard-Johnson give a meaningful slant to news that has grown tiresome.

Feature Carolyn in stories on everything from career changes to reinventing oneself in retirement.

Related to Carolyn's award-winning fiction

The Corrosive Nature of Even Subtle Intolerance -- This one works well as a follow up story after a terrorist attack (Yep! Intolerance at work!) or an event of racial discrimination. We've had a lot of it among our political candidates with more sure to come!

Why Do Words Count So Much? -- a slant on the subject above.

Why Do Utahans Eat Green Jell-O? -- The state in which this author was born and raised is a unique culture in this country. The South has been covered from New Orleans to the Carolinas. Americans know little about Utah's culture and much of what they know they've gotten wrong.

Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered

Truth in Fiction? Fiction in Truth? -- Harkening explores these subject. The next time an author gets busted for plagiarizing (and we know it's sure to happen) let Carolyn Howard-Johnson talk about how truth--in even the most basic of newstories--is filtered through more than one set of eyes, more than one writing technique.

Where Can Americans Find Freedom? -- Because Harkening is the story of one family's trek through several states and several generations to find acceptance, Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author to talk about privacy and acceptance issues.

Related to Tracings, an award-wnning chapbook of poetry

A Poet's Voice for Equality -- Sitting with Carolyn in-studio or on a back step can be a trip down memory lane with a voice that is innovative enough to renew and update old values for today.

 

Related to The Author

Whatever Happened to the Old Journalism? -- Let's discuss ethics in light of the next Valerie Plame or James Frey case. Because Carolyn Howard-Johnson explores all gradations of unethical and discriminatory behavior, she can rant fantastic how public relations, journalism and publishing have changed.

 

Find Happiness in Your Second, Third or Fourth Career -- Carolyn has had several from writing-related professions to entrepreneurial pursuits (retailing) and back again--this time with new twists.

 

Seniors Aren't So Senior Any More! -- Growing old gracefully is hardly the major point. How about not growing old at all --at least in the ways that count.

 

Related to  the How To Do It Frugally  series of books for writers

Make A Go of Your Career -- Let Carolyn tear you away from been there, done that. You can too learn to promote and do it professionally--regardless of the career you are building.

 

Twenty Serious Mistakes Everyone Makes: Crawl up the ladder using revitalized English -- Carolyn, a veteran writer and editor, will help people write better queries, submissions, cover letters and resumes using a few important words that can make a difference.

Related to Retailing 

Experience Counts! Even seemingly unrelated expertise never gets lost. Carolyn's class in geology as a Freshman at the University of Utah worked into freelance articles for the Salt Lake Tribune. With that same information she helped her fiancé buy her engagement ring. Later, in retailing, that knowledge made a jewelry section sing! Ditto for her background as a publicist. She acquired many more inches of free publicity than she ever need to pay for in display advertising.

If you have a special need for a feature or interview, ask Carolyn. If she can't fill it, she probably know someone who can!

 

Whether you are here to learn more about Carolyn Howard-Johnson, to review one of her books, to do a feature story or interview, to engage her as a speaker or simply to learn more about promotion or writing, you are in the right place.

Click here for a complete media kit focused on her speaking.

Click here for a complete media kit focused on her writing.

Click here to know more about her events, appearances and teaching.

Click here to know more about all of her published works.

Media Kit for Program Directors for Radio, TV, Conferences, Radio Shows

Media Kit for Book, Entertainment and Feature Editors

Kit for Reviewers

Recent Media Releases

Click here for Carolyn's first person essay, "Beating Time at Its Own Game."

 

Carolyn's Calendar of Coming Events and Appearances Come Learn! Come Share!

Please check April, May, June, September and October for active months.

 

Tip:

For Carolyn Howard-Johnson, one of the most exciting aspects of working as a staff writer for a daily newspaper was coming up with fresh new ideas for everything from a teen food column to cover material for what was then called the "Sunday Society" section.  It is very-nearly guaranteed that she can find something novel for feature editors, producers and others; she often has whole panels in place to discuss topics of interest. If she can't glean an angle from her own material, she knows another expert who can. Just ask. You won't be disappointed.

 

 Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or tech on every page of this website. 

 

Mini Biography for Carolyn Howard-Johnson

(Searching for something more complete? Check out the links on this page for an assortment of focused media kits.)

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. An instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program, her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t is recommended reading for her classes, was named USA Book News’ “Best Professional Book 2004," and was given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers' Society of America's Silver Award of Excellence. 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 website is www.HowToDoItFrugally.com.

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 Double Dragon Publishing.

 

Authors' Coalition http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com"Careers that are not fed die as readily as any living organism given no sustenance." ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson

 

 

 

This author is founder and a proud member of Authors' Coalition.    

(Directors: Joyce Faulkner and Pat Avery)

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   Future Plans for How To Do It Frugally Series:    The Frugal Amazon  Promoter,  The Frugal Retailer Promotes,   The Frugal Author Builds an Agent-Friendly Package   

Books and Audios on Writing Carolyn has Written,   Edited or Contributed to:

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Copyright ©2006 Carolyn Howard-Johnson


Copyright ©2006 Carolyn Howard-Johnson

 

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