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CarolynHowardJohns's profile Carolyn Howard-Johnson / 108, Female / Member since May 2008 / Last seen 1 hour ago

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. 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. 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, and was named USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004." It is also an Irwin Award winner. 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 is also a USA Book News award-winner as well as the winner of the Reader View's Literary Award in the publishing category. She is the recipient of both the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and the Glendale American Business Women's Association's Woman of the Year award. Her community's Character and Ethics Committee honored her for promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." She is a popular speaker and actor. Her website is www.HowToDoItFrugally.com.

My Blogs

Authors' Coalition: No Hum-Drum Book Fairs Allowed

http://www.authorscoalition.blogspot.com

This is the place where Authors' Coalition members who participate in our chosen fair booths meet to plan our branding and promotion efforts and to learn from one another…

Latest Post: Free Teleseminar for Genealogists, Journalists and Storytellers Everywhere!

Sharing with Writers and Readers

http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com

This blog is very simply another way I hope to connect with my readers and fellow writers. This blog is a way to give the teaching genes that populate my DNA free reign.…

Latest Post: After You've Gotten a Great Blurb, Then What?

The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor

http://www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com

There are gremlins out there determined to keep your work from being published, your book from being promoted. They are resolved to embarrass you before the gatekeepers w…

Latest Post: Q&A A La Ann Landers: So OK. About Those Em Dashes!

The New Book Review

http://www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com

This review spot is NEW because it embodies the new idea that a book should not be judged by its cover or its press. If a reviewer thinks a book is great, The New Book Re…

Latest Post: Early Bird Special for LA Times Festival of Books

War. Peace. Tolerance and Our Soldiers

http://www.warpeacetolerance.blogspot.com

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's grandson is serving in Iraq for the second time and the wife of a retired Army officer who served in the Berlin call up in the early 1960s. She w…

Latest Post: Letting Julie Do the Work While You Feel Good! (-: Why Not?