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.

"Careers that are not fed die as readily as any living organism given no sustenance." ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson

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Logo by Lloyd King

   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   

Find  Carolyn's Individual Books and Audios Here:

Before You Contact Me . . .

. . . please note: I do my best to answer readers' questions. Please understand that I receive about 400 e-mails each day.  If I tried to answer them all as completely as I'd like, I'd never get any work done.  Having said that, many of the articles that appear on this site and all over the Web are articles that were inspired by my readers questions--questions that weren't answered in any of my books for writers (see the home page for an overview of what those books are).  They certainly answer the questions I get asked most frequently and they come with complete indexes so you can easily find information by subject. So when I hear from from my readers, I benefit, but I also hope they will read my books first, do their homework, and--once done--ask away!  If there's something you want me to help you with that you can't find an answer to elsewhere, please feel free to contact me.  If it's important and you haven't heard back from me in a week, give me a little nudge. I try to answer every e-mail but occasionally something does get dropped or relegated to the SPAM file.

Newsletter Endorsement:

"I look forward to [Sharing with Writers] newsletter that gives a good dose of publicity/promotion information. In addition to using information for my own books, I also pull info now and then to share with my students in my magazine editing and book publishing courses. There are a lot of newsletters on a lot of topics. Carolyn's is one of those that matters."  ~ Walter M. Brasch, Ph.D., professor journalism, Bloomsburg University and author America's Unpatriotic Acts; 'Unacceptable': The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina; and Sex and the Single Beer Can: Probing the Media and American Culture.

I highly recommend this social network for others involved with book marketing services of any kind.

View my page on BOOK PLACE

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.

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Promotion Services

You'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.

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Learn more about the classes offered by UCLA Extension Writers' Program, You'll find Carolyn Howard-Johnson's instructor page there, too.