This Journal Works for You:
Inspiration and Hope on Each Page
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a UCLA Writers' Program Instructor and literary author and poet, has co-edited a journal with both a writing and a promotional twist.
Published by Red Engine Press (redenginepress.com) "The Complete Writer's Journal" encourages new writers as well as experienced ones with quotes from emerging authors and has given many new authors a chance to have their most memorable quotes in print.
The Complete Writer's Journal is also an example of a useful cross-promotion effort. Each author quoted (100 of them!) will promote the journal itself (and by extension, the first "Complete Writer" in the series, also published by REP). Those included were juried by Howard-Johnson and fellow editors Pat Avery and Joyce Faulkner.
Kristie Leigh Maguire, one of the quoted authors says,
"Yesterday I received my copies of the Journal that I ordered. They are BEAUTIFULLY done!"
Each contributing author will use the journals differently, but Howard-Johnson, the award-winning author of "This is the Place," plans to use them as thank you gifts to editors and producers (they won't get tossed like many doo-dad type souvenir gifts); she plans to personalize these gifts with permanent thank yous as entries on the first pages of the spiral bound book.
Some of the participating authors are using them as add-on sales to their own books at book fairs. Many are giving them to friends for the holidays.
Of course, anyone can use them as gifts for people who journal or write or draw or travel. They are attractive and, on occasion, funny or inspirational.
Order them from Howard-Johnson by sending an e-mail to HoJoNews.aolcom or at:
http://redenginepress.com/buy_tcw_journal.htm
As a service to authors, they are also available in bulk at special prices.
Howard-Johnson is the author of USA Book News' Best Professional Book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER, and her campaign for it captured the Irwin Award from the Book Publicists of Southern California. She was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature; her home town's Character and Ethics Commission honored for her work on promoting tolerance and the Pasadena Weekly named her to their list of "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen" for literary activism. She is the author of three other books, all award-winners and the founder of Authors' Coalition (http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com).
