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Endorsements:

"You are what I describe as an energy-giver. So many people today are energy-drainers." ~ Dorothea Helms, Dayton University workshop attendee

You Are Invited!

Come to be entertained at readings from my fiction or poetry or to learn from my classes.

Here's a list of stuff I've done in the past. Sorry if you missed them, but do keep in touch for future events! (-:

Trade Shows and Expos

Featured Author, SPAN booth; Book Expo, Chicago; Featured Speaker, Great Salt Lake Book Fair; and San Bernardino Book Fair; LA Times/UCLA Book Festival; Panel Moderator at Call to Arts Expo, 2004, Pasadena Convention Center; Panelist at UCLA’s Fall Book Faire; Book Expo America, signing This Is the Place 2001; BEA signing The Frugal Editor 2007, BEA signing The Frugal Editor at USA Book News Awardsbooth, 2008.

Speaker

Small Publishers of North America College (SPAN), Atlanta, GA; Romance Writers of America, Orange County Chapter; Authors and Arts Series, Glendale City Public Library; The Monrovia City Library Speaker Series, American Women in Business, and numerous book discussion groups. Retail Seminars, The California Gift Show, The LA Mart, California Marketing Center, Book Publicists of Southern California (see pixutre below), American Board of Hypnotists Conference, Nevada's Writer's Conference, Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers' Conference, San Diego State University's Writers' Conference, West Hollywood Book Fair, Duarte Book Fair, Diamond Bar Book Fair, American Board of Hypnotists, Sinclair Lewis Writers' Conference, Vroman's Bookstore (Panel) and more.

Signings

 Book Expo America, Chicago, Ill, June, 2001;Waldenbooks: Los Angeles (Macy’s Plaza), CA; Burbank, CA.; Thousand Oaks, CA; Brea, CA; Downey, CA; Lakewood, CA; Montebello, CA; Palmdale, CA.; Orange, CA; Baldwin Hills, CA; Provo, UT; Murray, UT; Columbus, GA; Norcross, GA; Atlanta, GA: Duluth, GA; San Bernardino, CA; Palm Desert, CA; Moreno Valley, CA;  Brentano’s: Sherman Oaks, CA; Atlanta, GA; Glendale Community College Bookstore and more.

Featured Readings

 Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Griffith Park, LA; The Great Salt Lake Book Festival, SLC, UT; Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, Frugal Frigate, Redlands, CA, Penelope’s Book Café Gallery, LaCanada-Flintridge, CA, Inland Empire Bookfest, San Bernardino, CA. The Desert Woman Newspaper Annual Book Lovers Luncheon, Palm Desert and return visits, Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club Reading for Literacy Day, Palm Springs and Cathedral City, CA; “Three Faces of Tolerance” presented by The Glendale Coalition for Human Equality and The Friends of the Glendale Library;

Teaching

UCLA Extension's Writers’ Program Instructor; Awarded UCLA' Extension's Instructor Development Program certificate March, 2005;  founder/facilitator of the Glendale Library Critique Group. Workshops at bookstores like Penelope’s Café Books & Gifts; Audioclass Series for Double Dragon Press and for Tri-Studios. Amazon to Your Advantage Audios. Seminars for PEN USA Emerging Voices program at Antioch University. Diamond Bar book fair,  Duarte book fair.

Events

Here's what people who have come to my events are saying. Won't you please join me at my next one?

From a conference report by Tim Bete, Director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. No attributions available--comments were made anonymously.

From the 2006 Conference:

"AMAZING! The most informative session of the convention."

"Carolyn is enthusiastic and knowledgeable and seems very open to the people in her workshop both during the

 class and after."

"Great presentation! The information was clear and well-presented. I came away from her class with a solid understanding of how to market myself as a writer, how to build a media kit and how to build on the information as resources grow."

"Ms. Howard-Johnson is an exceptional teacher with superior organizational skills who presents tons of information in a easily digestible way  and in a short time."

"I learned more from this single session than I have learned any other workshop in my lifetime."

"The woman really knows her stuff!"

"This was by far the best session I attended. Jam packed with incredible information..."

From the 2008 Conference:

"Best session of the weekend. Very helpful with constructive suggestions."

"I will take every class Carolyn has. She has such a practical eye and really understands the need of writers."

"Very beautiful and gracious lady that was EXTREMELY helpful! This workshop was another one that offered solid, concrete help...

"Carolyn gave hands-on specific information and advice that I can put to use in taking the next step in my writing career."

Writers and Authors! Please consider the classes Carolyn Howard-Johnson teaches at UCLA;  If you'd like me to come speak at a writer's conference in your area, please let your program director know!

Carolyn has been an instructor for the Writers' Program there since 2003 where she regularly receives exemplary student ratings. She has also presented at many writing conferences sponsored by US universities and served as guest speaker for university instructors like Eve Caram, a UCLA award-winning instructor and author of Goodbye Corpus Christi.  She  is proud of the Certificate of Completion she earned from UCLA's Instructor Development Program (2005) where both the master teachers and fellow instructors were outstanding! Find more about her her and her classes at http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/instructors.php?recordID=121   and more about the entire program at http://www.uclaextension.edu/writers.

Watch for Carolyn's next class at UCLA here:

&Carolyn Howard-Johnson will teach a one-day seminar in book promotion including a planning a thrifty online campaign. The place?  UCLA Extension's Writers' Program on campus, of course. Mark August 7, 2010, on your calendar. Contact me at hojonews@aol.com for more information.

"I come away with inspiration and knowledge I never expected to glean (not to mention the extensive handout information)." ~ Michael J. Wallach, student and author, UCLA Weekend Promotion Seminar

Carolyn often is asked to be a guest speaker for other instructors:

Carolyn with UCLA Master Instructor Pam Kelly at her UCLA Extension class on speaking, May, 2008. She has also served as a guest for Eve LaSalle Caram who teaches for UCLA, Cal State University at Northridge and Los Angeles Community College. Eve is the winner of UCLA Writers' Program Best Instructor of the Year award.

Letter with Evaluations from Pam's Class

 Carolyn Howard-Johnson also teaches at conferences, for fellowship programs and businesses.

From Pen USA's 2007 Fellowship Program's Seminar on Promotion at Antioch University.

"Carolyn takes the shame out of shameless self-promotion.  Her Do-It-Yourself approach to marketing quelled my technophobia and reassured me that I can and must be my own publicist." ~ Alisha Westerman,  2007 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow
 
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