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Here you will find
Carolyn's two different multi award-winning
HowToDoItFrugally series of books,
her award-winning fiction and poetry, and tons of resource
helps for readers of all her genres.
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Terrie
Wolfe, agent extraordinaire,
is shopping Carolyn's new memoir,
Here's How I Don't Cook and a new novel,
This Land Divided.
If you are interested in seeing either for publication
please contact her at
http://www.akalm.net/
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Multi Award-Winning
How To do It Frugally Series
of Books and Booklets for Writers |
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The Frugal Book
Promoter |
How to
Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically |
The Frugal Editor
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Booklet
Great Little Last-Minute
Editing Tips for Writer |
Booklet
The Great First Impression Book Proposal
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BUMPER STICKER
ENSORSEMENT
"I
consider Carolyn Howard-Johnson's
award-winning Frugal Book Promo series
my main Go-To source. What's more, she seems
to juggle indie publishing, marketing,
and writing
with maintaining a family and friendships with a deceptive ease and grace
that make her a role model for our ages. I find myself going about my day,
then stopping and asking myself:
WHAT WOULD CAROLYN DO?"
--Book Publicity by Marlan
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"I must confess: I’m a big fan of all of
Howard-Johnson’s Frugal
books. As a relatively
obscure author with a
limited marketing budget
and niche titles that
only a miracle could
elevate to bestseller
status, I’ve gleaned so
much valuable
information from the
Frugal series (The
Frugal Book Promoter,
The Frugal Editor and
How to Get Great Book
Reviews Frugally and
Ethically) that I’m able
to supplement my meager
Social Security income
to the tune of seven or
eight thousand
additional dollars every
year— which is a very
big deal. And the more I
actually put her
tried-and-true systems
and processes into
practice, the higher my
income from book sales
climbs. So I’m sticking
with her lessons because
I have every intention
of heeding Captain
Picard’s command, 'Make
it so!'"
~ Kristine M. Smith,
LGBT Memoirist
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"Howard-Johnson has the comforting tone of a mentor
and writes with the precision of a surgeon."
~ Francine Silverman, author, editor, author's advocate
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[Carolyn's] the author of
The Frugal Book Promoter: How to do What Your Publisher
Won’t, one of my very favorite books on how to build the
buzz for your book. You could spend the rest of your life
following all her tips. If you do, you’ll sell lots of
books.
~ Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound |
The Frugal Book Promoter is on
Penny C Sansevieri's self-publishing
class at New York
University's and Dan Poynter's recommendation lists.
More on Carolyn's HowToDoItFrugally
Series of books for writers.
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Multi Award-Winning
How To do It Frugally Series
of Books for Retailers
“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!”
~ Randy H. Eller, industry speaker, business consultant,
and President Eller Enterprises, LLC
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Award-Winning
Literary Works
See Carolyn's
Published Works Almanac that includes poems and
short stories published in
journals like Ruminate, Voices of Israel, ReVerb and
more.
"[Carolyn's] books are strengthened
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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Carolyn's
Multi-Award-Winning
Books of Poetry
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"articulate, gifted, insightful, iconoclastic,
and a truly impressive literary talent . . .
~Jim Cox, Editor-in-Chief of Midwest Book Review |
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Book:
Imperfect Echoes |
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Chapbook: Tracings |
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Writing Truth and
Justice with Capital Letters, lie and oppression
with Small |
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Published by
Finishing Line Press |
Multi Award-Winning Celebration Series of
Chapbooks Coauthored with Magdalena Ball
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"...profound and unique...True magic."
~ Darcia Helle for Book Addict
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Services
A Few
of the Organizations that Have Benefited
from Carolyn's Speaking and Teaching
Presenter 2009, 2010 |
Philadelphia, Nov. 2017
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Presenter, 2007 |
Presenter, 2013 |
Presenter, 2008, 09, 10, ll |
Frugal
Book Promotion.
Judith Briles' Extravaganza,
Denver, CO, 2016
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University of Dayton Erma Bombeck Writers'
Conference, 2006, 2008 |
Keynote, 2013; 2014
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Co-sponsor, cofounder and presenter, 2007, 08, 09, 10, ll |
National Span College, 2002 |
Fellows presenter at Antioch University, 2007, 08 |
Wisconsin Regional
Writers Conference |
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Book 'Em,
NC,
Three Panels 2013
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Panelist, Speaker
2012 |
Sisters in Crime,
Pasadena, 2009
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See more of Carolyn's Speaking Engagements |
[Carolyn is] what I describe as an energy-giver.
So many
people today are energy-drainers."
~
Dorothea Helms, Dayton University
workshop attendee |
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Buy Links for
Carolyn's Books |
"Careers
that are not fed die as readily as
any living organism
given no sustenance."
~
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Studio photography by
Uriah Carr
3 Dimensional Book Cover Images by iFOGO
Logo by
Lloyd King
To
subscribe to Carolyn's FREE online newsletter send an
e-mail.
Learn more about Carolyn's
newsletter and blog.
Read
past issues of Carolyn's
Newsletter.
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Frugal
E-Book Tip |
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Kindle E-Books
Aren't
Just for Kindle Anymore
Did you know that Amazon’s Kindle
e-books are a low-cost/no-cost way to access books
even if you don’t have a dedicated Kindle reader?
You can read Kindle's e-books on smartphones,
desktop computers and any e-device in between. You
can even store the books on the Amazon cloud.
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Quote from
Diana Schneidman, author and
marketer |
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Subscribe to
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's Sharing with Writers Newsletter
and get a FREE copy of
Great Little Last-Minute Editing Tips for Writers
"I have been a professional writer 40 years, and am also a
tenured full professor of journalism. Carolyn's Sharing with
Writers newsletter is most useful for me--and for my
students. I emphasize to them that while research is 90% of
writing, and the actual writing is about 10%, there's another
100% out there called promotion. Carolyn shows numerous ways to
get the message to the mass media."
~Walter Brasch, author
and educator
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Carolyn's Blogs |
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The Frugal Retailer Blog
Carolyn shares nearly three decades of
retailing experience with
an emphasis on marketing.
Sharing with Writers
All things publishing with
an emphasis on book
promotion. Named to
Writer's Digest
101 Best Website list.
The New Book Review
Great way for readers, authors, reviewers and publicists to get more
mileage out of
a great review.
The Frugal Editor Blog
This is the Frugal, Smart
and Tuned-In Editor blog.
Covers editing, grammar, formatting and more.
Get the answers you need.
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Carolyn's Awards |
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Awards for Carolyn's Books, Blogs and More The New Book Review
Named to
Master's in English.org Online Universities'
101 Essential Sites for Voracious
Readers
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)
and the Second Edition of The Frugal Book Promoter
(2011).
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.
A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotion wins author Military
Writers Society of America's Author of the Month award for March, 2010
Gold Medal
Award from Military Writers Society of America, 2010.
MWSA also gave a nod to
She Wore Emerald Then,
a chapbook of poetry honoring mothers.
The Frugal
Editor
Named #! on Top Ten
Editing Books list.
Finalist
New Generation Book Awards 2012,
The Frugal Book
Promoter; Finalist 2010
The Frugal Editor;
Winner 2010 Marketing Campaign for the Frugal Editor
The Oxford Award
recognizes
the
alumna who exemplifies the Delta Gamma precept of
service to her community and who, through the years,
devotes her talents to improve the quality of life
around her.
The Frugal
Book Promoter is runner-up in the how-to category for
the
Los Angeles Book Festival 2012
awards.
Winner Diamond Award
for Achievement in the Arts
Glendale
California's Arts and Culture Commission and the City of
Glendale Library,
2013
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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Site Sponsor |
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Chaz
DeSimone is my book cover designer, logo whiz, and
marketing partner. He is always right there with his poster
program, too. He always has one that fits
my most recent efforts--poetry, promotion, or about anything
else!
Check out
his free Ampersand posters.
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Proud to be Instrumental in
Helping Other Poets |
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Poetry Mystique: A modern
text edited by Suzanne Lummis with commentary from the
editor.
Poems by selected students from Suzanne's
poetry classes including my "Songs from the South."
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Carolyn's newest book from her multi award-winning #HowToDoItFrugally
Series of books for writers!
How to Get
Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically is now
available as an e-book and paperback on
Amazon.
Reviews
are the way to get the launch off to a great start and
to keep all your books alive. And there's a lot more to
it than you think and it is (or should be) very nearly
free!
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