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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! Endorsement: I wanted to tell you how your workshops, reading your newsletter, and just chatting with you has been a great help to me. I have a background in marketing from the fashion world and even though it has helped me get my foot in the door, I honestly have to say that after getting to know you, reading your books, and everything else I just said has truly helped me put Stories for Children Magazine on the map. ~VS Grenier, Founder and Editor-in-Chief Stories for Children Magazine ~~~
Carolyn sponsors the Noble (Not Nobel!) Prize for literary efforts that explore the human condition, use exemplary English or experiment with it. She eschews titles that have already won prestigious prizes or appear on bestseller lists. In other words, she wants to build lists each year that feature works that deserve more attention than they're getting. Contact Carolyn for information on submitting a nomination. Go to MyShelf to read her Back to Literature column where she announces her awards each January.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, the author of USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, and Kristie Leigh Maguire, multi-published author and owner of Star Publish, named 13 authors as the winners of their "Reach for the Stars! Best Frugal Promoter Contest 2005." This contest was designed to keep giving. The winners' promotional plans have been included in Reach For The Stars! Award-Winning Promotional Plans To Jumpstart Your Branding Career, an e-book that was published by Star Publish and released in early 2006. Awards for Carolyn's Books, Blogs and More
For The New Book Review and Sharing with Writers blog. Nominated by Nikki Leigh. and Jewel Sample respectively.
For The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In-Editor blog.
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).
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.
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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Proud Member of and Highly Recommended:
ABWA is a group of highly skilled networkering women in business.
Military Writers' Society of America
Honorary member of Publishers and Writers of San Diego.
Book Publicists of Southern California (BPSC) Pix: Proud Irwin Award Winners Carolyn and Janet Goliger, l. to r.
Phone Call to SINATRA is
a true story... it happened back in the year 1970 when the
renowned entertainer appeared in two London
I highly recommend this social network for those involved with book marketing services of any kind.
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Professional and Writing Awards
Pauline Field, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, and Lynn White Shelby celebrate Carolyn's American Business Women's Association award for Outstanding Woman at the Embassy Suites in Sept. 2007. Lynn nominated Carolyn for the award.
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The Frugal Book Promoter
USA Book News Best Professional Book of 2004
Other Awards
Reviewers' Choice Award: This is the Place was named first place, Sime-Gen’s mainstream category, spring 2001.
Red Sky Press Award: 2001, judged by Rose A. O. Kleidon, Prof. Emeritus of English at University of Akron.
Masters Literary Award: Finalist 2000.
New Millennium Literary Award:
Semifinalist, 1400 entries, June,
2001.
Mille Club:
Honored by AmErica House, Baltimore, Md. for sales
and
promotion.
Preditors and Editors Readers Poll:
This is the
Place
was named
Top 10 Novels for 2001 and Top 10 novels for 2002. Harkening
was named Top 10 literary books for 2003.
NUW’s Award of Excellence: Editor: Kristie Leigh Maguire.
MyShelf.com:
Ten Best Reads: This is the Place,
2002. Also
The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What
Your Publisher Won't was featured in 2005.
Women WritingOnLine Award: Honorable Mention, first person essay “Life Begins at 60.”
Zino.com:
Award for
Outstanding Article, May, 2003: “Taking a Dose of What’s Good for You.”
Book Crazy Radio Network: Award celebrating 100 review broadcasts.
Long Story Short: Poem of the Month, “Shelf Life,” March 2204.
#1 Best Sellers:
EBookAd.com, The Frugal Book
Promoter, Aug. 2004. Also the
#1 bestseller at Starbooks for
2005, 2006.
Reviewer’s Choice Masterpiece:
selected by reviewer Lori Soard for WordMuseum.
Readers’ Award: Sponsored by The
Pedestal Magazine for poem, “Olvera Street Tutorial.” Editor,
John Amen.
The Compulsive Reader, The Year's 10 Best Reads of 2004, for Tracings.
The Military Writers' Society of America, Silver Award of Excellence, 2006, for Tracings.
Readers Views
Literary Award, winner in the publishing category for The Frugal
Editor.
New Generations Indie Book Award -- Finalist -- for The Frugal Editor.http://www.indiebookawards.com/2008_winners_and_finalists.php
Winner New Generations Indie Marketing Award -- for The Frugal Editor.'s marketing campaign. http://www.indiebookawards.com/2008_winners_and_finalists.php ,
Carolyn's blog, Sharing with Writers (www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com), was named to Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites in 2008. See the June, 2008, Issue, p. 52.
Carolyn's blog, The Frugal Smart and Tuned-In Editor won The Best Blog of The Day Award.
Dawn Colclasure named Tracings one of her 50 Favorite Books in her Palms to Pines blog http://palmstopines.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-50-favorite-books.html.
The
Brilliante WeBlog Premio award for
The New Book Review
blog. Nominated by
Nikki Leigh.
Carolyn A Retailer's Guide and her chapbook of poetry with Magdalena Ball (She Wore Emerald Then) were named finalists in their categories by USA Book News.
Carolyn's podcasts at Authors Access made the top 10 for the third year in row. In 2009 her podcast was 4th, in previous years in took top place for listeners. Here's the 2009 list, a great resource for writers: http://www.authorsaccess.com/podcasts/top-10-podcasts-of-2009
She Wore Emerald Then named to MyShelf.com's 10 Best Reads by Jennifer Akers.
AUTHOR-OF-THE-MONTH AND BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH HONORS
Tomrbooks:
Calley Moore, Editor.
Aspiring Authors: Diana Redman, Editor.
Word Thunder: Sarah Mankowski, Editor.
My Shelf: Brenda Weeaks, Editor.
Authors’ Cove: First Featured Writer of the Month. Erika Michell, Editor.
Queen Jaw Jaw: Featured Author, Georgia Richardson, Editor.
MichelleDunn.com:
The Frugal Book Promoter is her Writers' Resource Book-of-the-Month for June 2005
Speechless The Magazine, Featured poet, with poems from Tracings,
Poems for You: Tracings was a featured Book of Poetry, Kristin Johnson, Editor.
Writing News: "Sharing with Writers" newsletter honored. Editor Belinda Hughes.
The Frugal Editor
USA Book News Best Writing/Publishing Book of 2007; Reader Views Choice Award, 2008; and was a 2008 finalist in the New Generation Book Awards. Carolyn promotion campaign for that book was the winner of the New Generation's Marketing Award, 2008.
The Frugal Editor reached top ten in sales at Amazon.com.
The Frugal Editor won USA Book News Best Book award for its category, publishing and writing and the ReaderViews award for best publishing book.
Carolyn is featured on San Diego's Who's Who as an honorary member the San Diego writers' group. www.wordsd.com.
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Tip: How, in a bookstores full of thousands of titles, does a reader choose yours? Maybe because a little medal lives on your book cover that tells a browser that there's a good reason to expect your book may be better than the average bear. How do you convince an editor that you are newsworthy, that you are credible. Perhaps they'll be impressed because of the awards by your name. Now, here's the big secret. It often makes no difference how prestigious the award is. Casual readers may not understand the difference between a Pulitzer and a Pushcart or a Preditor and Editor's Poll. Editors (other than book editors) don't either. All they know is they have eight column inches to fill and your award may convince them to fill them with something about you. Find at least one tip on writing, promotion or tech on every page of this
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Leon Mayer, longtime officer of Friends of the Glendale Library, presents Carolyn with California Assembly Certificate of Recognition at an event in which she introduced two emerging poets, Sona Ovasapyan and Christine Alexanians. She holds several other certificates of recognition from various state officials.
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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 Tri-Studio.
Studio photography by Uriah Carr Logo by Lloyd King
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Important Resources Book Proposal Help Former book acquisitions editor Terry Whalin says, "editors and publishers don't read manuscripts. They read book proposals. In Book Proposals That Sell: 21 Secrets to Speed Your Success, you learn the inside scoop to achieve your dreams." I highly recommend it.
Promotion ServicesYou'll find direction in the Frugal Book Promoter for building your own media kit; if you choose not to build your own, the information there will make you a better partner for a publicist you might hire to help you. I recommend PressKit 24/7, the brainchild of publicists with over forty years' experience. We know the speed at which you need to work, and we know what it takes to get the media's attention. It was critical for us to be able to create professional online press kits for our own clients. So we understand what you need for yours.
Learn more about the classes offered by UCLA Extension Writers' Program, You'll find Carolyn Howard-Johnson's instructor page there, too.
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