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Find  Carolyn's Individual Books and Audios Here:

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

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


"
Howard-Johnson's lyrical prose graces every page." ~ Marilyn Ross, author, speaker, publishing consultant

"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

 

 

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For a list of resources on tolerance related subjects click here.

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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

 

“When you live amid beauty sometimes you don’t recognize discrimination, and, if you do, you prefer not to acknowledge it.” ~Quotation from This Is the Place

 

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."


 

 

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Genealogists abound in Utah. I urge fellow lovers of family history everywhere to follow their leads -- and go one step farther than most of them do. Turn that history into a biography, memoir or fictionalize it -- as I have in This Is the Place -- and make it into a novel. Records may be go down in history but history brought alive in a book lives on forever.

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Mini Biography for Carolyn Howard-Johnson

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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   

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