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Find Carolyn's Individual Books and Audios Here:
You will find at least one promotion, writing or tech tip on every page on this site. Sometimes you'll find, two or three! Happy browsing and collecting! Endorsements
"What a wonderful read! I can see why [This Is the Place] won a number of awards." ~Normal Sundberg “This author’s words set me free.” ~ Sona Ovasapyan, Student at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Multi award-winning Shadow of Doubt by Linda Morelli. Cat Madoc returns to her family home on the jutting headlands of
Relative Danger,
by
June Shaw-- first
book in a series featuring a spunky widow with attitude who
"thinks" she wants to avoid her hunky ex-lover so she can
rediscover herself. But he opens Cajun restaurants in all
the places she travels -- and she is so bad at avoiding
tempting dishes and men. Order at
Harlequin.
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A First Novel Always Holds a Special Place in the Heart of a Writer
The Multiple Award-Winning Novel, This Is the Place ISBN: 1588513521 Publisher: AmErica House
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 indo redemption. She learns to mend her own life when she finds she cannot mend her world. This nove, set in Salt Lake City in the 50s, reveals not only complexities of the heart ut the secrets of what some consider a mysterious place and culture. “[This Is the Place] instills the conflicts of Mormonism so gracefully and incisively.” ~ James W. Ure, author of Leaving the Fold “It's been a week … and still the characters fight for attention in my thoughts.” ~ Warren Stucki, author of Boy’s Pond
Learn More Here: Click here for reviews of This Is the Place, complete with permission to reprint. Click here for an excerpt of This Is the Place. Click here for a near-instant copy of the prologue to This Is the Place in your e-mail box. Click here for a growing list of links for books about tolerance. Click here for Carolyn's first person essay, "Beating Time at Its Own Game."
Click Here for the study guide included in This Is the Place.
Rebecca Brown of
RebeccasReads.com said, "At
the end [of This Is the Place] there is a Reading Group Guide of
questions for serious discussion, which transforms this novel into a
textbook about closed societies & their impact."
Mini Biography for Carolyn Howard-Johnson (Searching for something more complete? Check out the media room on this site and/or download one of the complete 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.
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“When you live amid beauty
sometimes you don’t recognize discrimination, and, if you do, you prefer
not to acknowledge it.”
