How To Get Great Book Reviews Frugally
and Ethically:
The ins and outs of using free reviews to build and sustain a writing career
Volume 3 (HowToDoItFrugally Series for Writers) by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Los Angeles, CA - The Web - more explicitly Amazon and other
online bookstores—have changed the face and nature of
reviews in the last couple of decades. Carolyn
Howard-Johnson, known for her author advocacy and how-to
books for writers—has released a new book (the 3rd) in her
multi award-winning and bestselling (at many different
levels) HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. With
the release of Howard-Johnson’s How To Get Great Book
Reviews Frugally and Ethically: The ins and outs of using
free reviews to build and sustain a writing career
authors - both traditionally published and self-published - can
now approach the daunting task of the whole spectrum of
reviews from getting and using reviews online and in
prestigious review journals efficiently. This new how-to book is third in Howard-Johnson’s
multi award-winning H ow To Do It Frugally Series. The first
book in the series, The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What
Your Publisher Won’t, was named USA Book News “Best
Professional Book 2004," and Book Publicists of Southern
California honored it with their Irwin Award. Now in its
second edition, Bookbaby.com calls it a “classic” and it has
helped more than 40,000 authors since its release. The
second in the series, The Frugal Editor, is her most
award-winning of the series including honors from Day
Poynter’s Global E-Book Award, USA Book News, Reader Views
Literary Award, Next Generation Indie Book Award, and won a
special Marketing Award from New Millennium Book Awards.
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The Frugal Editor: Do-it-yourself editing secrets for authors:
From your query letter to final manuscript to the marketing of your bestseller
Volume 2 (HowToDoItFrugally Series for Writers) by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
There are gremlins out there determined to keep your work
from being published, your book from being promoted.
Resolved to embarrass you before the gatekeepers who can
turn the key of success for you—they lurk in your
subconscious and the depths of your computer programs.
Whether you are a new or experienced author, The Frugal
Editor will help you present whistle-clean copy (from a
one-page cover letter to your entire manuscript) to those
who have the power to say “yea” or “nay.” The second edition
of T he Frugal Editor: Do-it-yourself editing secrets for
authors: From your query letter to final manuscript to the
marketing of your new bestseller is from the multi
award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers.
The Frugal Editor has won awards from USA Book News, Reader
Views Literary, New Generation Indie awards and the e-book
was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and
was given an honorable mention nod fom Dan Poynter's Global
E-Book Award. “Absolutely essential for beginning writers
and a necessary reminder for the more advanced. The mentor
you've been looking for. This book won't collect
dust!”~Christina Francine, review for Fjords Review "Using
the basic computer and editing tricks from The Frugal
Editor, authors can prevent headaches and save themselves
time—and even money—during the editing process. It’s well
worth your effort to learn them." ~ Barbara McNichol,
Barbara McNichol Editorial “Writers and editors have a true
friend in Carolyn Howard-Johnson. Her word smarts, her
publishing savvy, and her sincere commitment to authors and
editors make The Frugal Editor a must-have resource.” ~ June
Casagrande, author of The Best Punctuation Book, Period and
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies (Penguin) "The Frugal
Editor has become an appendage to me." ~ Donna M. McDine,
award-winning children's author www.donnamcdine.com /
www.donna-mcdine.blogspot.com Quote from The Frugal Editor:
“Language is a fluid life form. To assume that because we
once learned grammar one way, it will always be accepted is
fallacious. To neglect researching the language we write in
when we so assiduously research the facts for what we write
is folly.”
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The Frugal Book Promoter: How to get nearly free publicity on your own or partnering with your publisher
Volume 1 (HowToDoItFrugally Series for Writers) by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
The second edition of The Frugal Book Promoter is an updated
version of the multi award-winning first edition. It has
been expanded to include simple ways to promote books using
newer technology, always considering promotion and marketing
techniques that are easy on the pocketbook and frugal of
time. It also includes a multitude of ways for authors and
publishers to promote the so-called hard-to-promote genres.
The multi award-winning author of poetry and fiction draws
on a lifetime of experience in journalism, public relations,
retailing, marketing, and the marketing of her own books to
give authors the basics they need for do-it-yourself
promotion and fun, effective approaches that haven't been
stirred and warmed over, techniques that will rocket their
books to bestselling lists. You'll also learn to write media
releases, query letters and a knock 'em dead media kit - all
tools that help an author find a publisher and sell their
book once it's in print. And what if you want to partner
with a publicist or your publisher to make their marketing
campaigns more successful? This book will help you do that,
too!
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The Great First Impression Book Proposal:
Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your Book to an Agent or Publisher in Twenty Minutes or Less by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
This 68 page booklet is the result of award-winning author
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's extensive work with clients who
hate writing book proposals and hate learning how to write
them even more. She found herself coaching them through the
process rather than doing it for them, for who could
possibly recreate the passion an author feels for his or her
own book better than the author? In doing so, she found she
had written a booklet--not a tome-- on how to write a
proposal that is most likely to elicit the enthusiasm
required for an agent or publisher to shepherd the author's
idea from a dream to a real book--paper, sweet-smelling ink
and all. And the best part? It took her clients only about
thirty minutes to absorb the essentials. Voila! The Great
First Impression Book Proposal was born.
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Your Blog, Your Business: The Frugal Retailer's Guide to Getting Customer Loyalty and Sales, Both In-Store and Online
(HowToDoItFrugally Series for Retailers) by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Blogging is an essential part of a retailer's online marketing plan, yet many retailers avoid it because they dread its intricacies, the time it may consume in their busy schedules, or the unease they feel about finding meaningful material. "Your Blog, Your Business" addresses those fears with nitty-gritty, practical ideas for minimizing each of them. It helps businesses-large or small, online or off-set up a blog, integrate it with their other social networks, and manage it frugally. It gives retailers the benefit of Carolyn Howard-Johnson's nearly three decades experience as founder and manager of her own chain of stores and stints as a New York publicist, a retail consultant and journalist. She also runs several blogs of her own and contributes to countless others. It is the second in the Survive and Thrive series for retailers in her USA Book News award-winning HowToDoItFrugally.com books. Her blog for the retail trade is at
www.frugalretailing.blogspot.com.
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Frugal and Focused Tweeting for Retailers:
Tweaking Your Tweets and Other Tips for Integrating Your Social Media by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Twitter is the Web phenomenon of the decade even though many say they "don't get it," and even those who think they do "get it" appear to be missing something. The award-winning "Frugal and Focused Tweeting for Retailers" will help those with businesses--large or small, online or off--use Twitter in ways they never imagined by "doing it right" and integrating their efforts with all the other marketing they do. It gives retailers the benefit of Carolyn Howard-Johnson's nearly three decades experience as founder and manager of her own chain of stores, stints as a New York publicist, retail consultant and journalist, and a veteran Tweeter (If there can be such a thing as a veteran of such a new concept!). It is the second in the Survive and Thrive series for retailers in her USA Book News award-winning
www.HowToDoItFrugally.com books.
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Imperfect Echoes: Writing Truth and Justice with Capital Letters, lie and oppression with Small by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Inspired by Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz's poem "Incantation" that lauds the power of human reason over the reoccurring and seemingly insane political realities, Howard-Johnson holds out hope but is not persuaded by trends that seem worse now than they were in Milosz's time. A student of Suzanne Lummis, UCLA poetry instructor and the Fresno School of Poetry fronted by US poet laureate Philip Levine, she touches on the isms of the world--racism, ageism, even what might be termed "wallism" but was once referred to as xenophobia. In her poem "Crying Walls," she sounds a low warning reminiscent of Robert Frost: "Chains linked. Wire barbed,/ Krylon smeared. Feeble,/ useless, unholy billboards,/ anything but mending walls."
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Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Carolyn's second book released by AmErica House, Baltimore,
Md. It is a group of stories that that may be read
separately like a traditional collection. or it can also be
read like a novel because - arranged lineally - they tell
the stories of a family from the beginnings of memory
through their settling in Utah and moving out of it,
disapora-fashion.
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This is the Place by
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
This 68 page booklet is the result of award-winning author
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's extensive work with clients who
hate writing book proposals and hate learning how to write
them even more. She found herself coaching them through the
process rather than doing it for them, for who could
possibly recreate the passion an author feels for his or her
own book better than the author? In doing so, she found she
had written a booklet--not a tome-- on how to write a
proposal that is most likely to elicit the enthusiasm
required for an agent or publisher to shepherd the author's
idea from a dream to a real book--paper, sweet-smelling ink
and all. And the best part? It took her clients only about
thirty minutes to absorb the essentials. Voila! The Great
First Impression Book Proposal was born.
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