Works by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
(Writer)

Amazon Shorts

• The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Twenty Minutes or Less
  As time goes on, learning to write a proposal is becoming more important for more kinds of writing. In today's rushed world, no one wants to spend lots of time learning to write a proposal. Learning to write a proposal that works is essential. The Great First Impression Proposal tells writer everything they need to know about selling a book or article idea in one, quick Amazon Short.

Fiction

• This Is The Place (2001)
  Sky Eccles has a father who is Mormon and a mother who is Protestant. Her father's roots go back to the founder of his church and the pioneers; her mother's roots are foggy and forgotten. Because she was born and raised with a double identity, Sky sees her surroundings in duplicate, like a Kodak color print sitting beside its own filmy negative. A new career in journalism is giving her clarity of vision.

Non-fiction

• Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered (2002)
  Harkening is a collection that tells about a charming, dysfunctional, and loving family with enough peccadilloes among them to keep the story roaring along. A heartwarming thread embroiders each story, stitching them into a satisfying whole. It is a lovely piece that bonds memory to identity, mind to soul.
  
  Harkening has been awarded three times since its release in November of 2002. One of the stories was given the Red Sky Press Award. This is awarded by a panel of judges at the University of Akron headed by Rose A. O. Kleidon, Professor Emeritus of English. It also took Word Thunder's most prestigious award for 2001, The Award of Excellence, and was just voted Top Ten Novels of 2001 by the Readers' Poll at Preditor and Editors.

How To Do It Frugally Series

1. The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't (2004)
   For about five cents a day THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T assures your book the best possible start in life. Full of nitty-gritty how-to's for getting nearly free publicity, Carolyn Howard-Johnson shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the successes of her own book campaigns.
   
   Carolyn is an award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction and former publicist for the New York PR firm that instituted the "10 Best Dressed List." She wrote Frugal to use as a text/syllabus for her UCLA Extension Writers' Program class, "Savvy Marketing for New Authors."
   THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER tells authors how to do what their publishers can’t or won’t and why authors can do their own promotion better than a PR professional. It gives authors hundreds of nearly free promotion ideas; they may then pick and choose those that fit their pocketbooks and their personalities.

2. The Frugal Editor : Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success (October 2007 release)
   Gremlins are out there! They're determined to foul your credibility and to keep your book from being published or publicized. They -- resolved to embarrass you before the gatekeepers who can turn the key of success for you -- lurk in your subconscious and the depths of your computer programs. Whether you are a new or experienced author, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success will help you present whistle-clean copy (whether it's a one-page cover letter or your entire manuscript) to those who have the power to say "Yea" or "Nay."

Poetry

• Tracings (2005) -- Winner Military Writers' Society of America's Silver Award of Excellence

• Cherished Pulse (2006) by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball with original artwork by Vicki Thomas
  Cherished Pulse contains twenty poems which look at love from a wise, mature, sensitive perspective. Never sentimental (forget Hallmark), the poems explore love in its many guises -- cherish, longing, sensuality, and that sacred place between desire and consummation.
  
  Click here to purchase Cherished Pulse.

See also:

• The Complete Writer's Journal (2006) by Carolyn Howard-Johnson , Joyce Faulkne,r and Pat McGratrh Avery
  Quotes from 100 writers make up this journal. Writers, illustrators, publishers and marketers share tidbits of wisdom, humor and tips. Pages lined on one side and blank on the other for you to take notes, draw or whatever your heart desires. Photographs are watermarked throughout the book.