September 17, 2006: Sharing with Writers:
From the Desks
Of Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Authors' Coalition Friends
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"Sharing with Writers" is the official newsletter of Authors' Coalition,

http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com

an organization of writers who help writers.

To read this newsletter at Authors Den go to:

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Note from Carolyn:

Dear Authors' Coalition Members and Subscribers:

Let's talk about those who think publicity is not for them or those who think they are too shy for promotion or those who don't understand what publicity is. Example: Some think publicity is getting editors to help them sell their books. Others want publicity but don't want to help others. This subject is on my mind because in my e-mail box today was an e-zine from some associates who know how to do it. I found was some authors (Brian Hill and Dee Power, dee@brianhillanddeepower.com , were blasting out information on other authors who had helped them with their marketing campaigns. Here it the post:

(Note, book cover pictures were included--my newsletter program won't take them and they wouldn't reproduce in Word, either.)

Our Marketing Experts

Paul J. Krupin, is President of Direct Contact PR (formerly IMEDIAFAX - The Internet to Media Fax Service), a custom publicity service. A retired federal government scientist and once-upon-a-time attorney, he is an author over 25 books including the book Trash Proof News Releases. He has been described as a long time PR Guru who has developed sure-fire proven strategies for getting publicity. He works with individuals, companies, and organizations, helping them write effective news releases and copy, select and deploy the right tactics, to reach the right media. He sends out over a million news releases each year, on behalf of hundreds of inventors, authors and publishing companies. You can reach him by phone at 1-800-457-8746 or 509-545-2707, send him an email at mailto:Paul@DirectContactPR.comor visit DirectContactPR

Stacey J. Miller, founder of S. J. Miller Communications, specializes in developing winning media strategies for authors and publishers, and in coordinating national and regional tours. A former in-house publicist for a trade book publisher, she has successfully promoted trade books for more than a decade. Her clients -- ranging from Prentice Hall and McGraw-Hill to independent houses and self-published authors -- have enjoyed exposure on top television and radio shows from coast to coast, in major national and local print, and online. http://www.bookpr.com/ You can reach Stacey at sjmiller@bookpr.com

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered are both award-winners. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and has shared her expertise at venues like San Diego State's world renowned Writers' Conference and Call to Arts! EXPO. She was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by 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. Her nitty-gritty how-to book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER won USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004.

Lissa Warren VP, Senior Director of Publicity, Da Capo Press / Da Capo Lifelong Books, Author of The Savvy Author’s Guide to Book Publicity. Lissa has worked in the publicity department of several prestigious Boston publishing houses including David R. Godine, Houghton Mifflin, and Perseus Publishing, and is currently Senior Director of Publicity at Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. She is an experienced promoter of both fiction and nonfiction, with particular expertise in the areas of business and biography, health and history, poetry and parenting, sports and science, and music. She has worked on such national bestsellers as The Cluetrain Manifesto, Greenspan: The Man Behind Money, Flatterland, Smart Mobs, Faster Than the Speed of Light, and Touchpoints Three to Six.

You'll notice that I didn't clip out the other books Dee and Brian used to get as smart as they are about promotion. The more we all know about promotion and the craft of writing and the more we all share it, the better. You've heard me say it before. This is not a competition but a joint effort.

Let's all work at going that extra inch if not mile for one another. Buy someone else's book, plug someone else's book, pass on a brilliant tip or idea you have. And see the book facts (scroll down a bit) that Allyn Evans contributed this week. You can see that the road isn't easy. Let's not trudge down it alone. And while we're trudging together, please check out Dee and Brian's site. You're sure to find other great promotion ideas you can emulate.

dee@brianhillanddeepower.com

Best,

Carolyn Howard-Johnson
HoJoNews@aol.com
http://carolynhoward-johnson.com
http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com
And a blog focused on book fairs at http://redenginepress.com/chjohnson

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No part of this newsletter is paid advertising.
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Letter-to-the-(Editor:

(Normally I excerpt from letters but this is one is full of wisdom and experiences many of us experience--thus, I thought you'd enjoy the whole thing.)

Hi Carolyn:

I am reading The Frugal Book Promoter and I will review it for you on amazon.com when I finish. Normally I read a book from cover to cover and then go back to restudy the flagged pages, but yours is like a smorgasbord, so laden with tender morsels that I must taste a bite here and a bite there, just to see what satisfies my promotional appetite. What a wealth of information you've packed into this 'frugal' package! You’ve also spiked my interest in reading This is the Place.

Like you I published my first book at near retirement age. I missed my final exams — first semester, junior year — giving birth to my daughter and became an English-major college dropout at age twenty. Marriage, family and other peoples’ priorities propelled my life until age fifty-five when I recognized the perfect opportunity to fulfill my lifetime dream. But writing a book while balancing an active role in our family business and caring for my cancer-stricken husband was nothing short of a trial in perseverance. Late last year, after four years in the making, Loving Larry was published, and as readers worldwide continue applauding its inspirational value, my determination is spurred to market more aggressively.

Thank you for writing The Frugal Book Promoter. Based on your suggestions I am working on Listmanias and So You’d Like to… projects (both available on Amazon). Though still juggling business and family responsibilities I will build a website and try blogging. Meanwhile, if you’re curious about yet another inspirational woman from our era, you may see Loving Larry in its natural habitat at www.peptoboonsmal.com/lh/book.htm or at www.outskirtspress.com/lovinglarry
Sincerely,
Penny Wormet, author of Loving Larry
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Frugal Tip: You don't need to buy books or lists or pay for site access to get those lists. That goes for anything from Bacon's Directories (lists for radio, TV and print media) to the great style books and/or sites. You have a computer. But, you say, many of the lists you get for free on the Web are incomplete. Yes, but you have a library card. You got that for free, right? Not only that you'll get super advice from your reference librarian, also for free. You library card will also get you into www.referenceuse.com for fr * *. Try it.

PS: This tip will go into the next edition of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, but until it is ready, there are plenty more like this waiting for you there now.
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Google at Your Service:

Have you heard of the Google Partner program. An expert from one of the list serves I'm on gave me some help with it. It may not be for everyone so check out the details (you, know, guidelines, the contract, etc.) but do check it out.


"The Google Partner program technically a beta program, which means they're still testing technologies.

The procedure is pretty much self-service--you go to the site, sign up with a user name and password and you're in. The page for this is
https://books.google.com/partner/login . (If you have a user name and password for any other Google program, such as Ad Sense, use the same
one.) Then, follow the directions to upload your book information - -they provide a template for this (basically it's Excel, but you can also save
as CSV). Your account is established immediately. You can sign into it, find your title, and find out whether it's been made "live" yet if you have already signed up for it. If not, you get the instructions to mail in the book for scanning.

There is a "Contact Us" link on the bottom of that screen so that you can ask questions if you have them. Rather impersonal, but my experience is that Google is very responsive if you click the "Contact
Us" from the appropriate screen.
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From Steve Carlson, Upper Access, Inc.
Book Publishers, Publishers' Assistant Software
All New: COUPLET--Easy Database Management of Book Title Information and Mail Lists--Just $99!
http://www.upperaccess.com - http://www.pubassist.com
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TIP: Fight your own personal battle against ID theft, phishing, spam and online-shopping scams by learning more at the Federal Trade Commission's new site to fight cybercrime. www.onguardonline.gov. They use interactive quizzes and plain-old, old-fashioned articles to make information accessible. Did you know there 6,191 programs designed to steal your passwords and logons?
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TIP: Kim Malo, a fellow contributor to MyShelf.com, made me the cutest cartoon bookworm. For a short time, I'll be using it as part of my e-mail autosignature and on my new website. Anyone interested in seeing how this might work for their own promotion may e-mail me at hojonews@aol.com. I'll send you an answer back so you can see the likeness of me (as a worm), reading The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher.
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Opportunities:

Info for Writing/Speech Activists and Events for PA Area Subscribers:

(Submitted by Sharing with Writers subscriber, Walter Brasch)

Sat., 9/30/2006--the following authors will be at the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee rally, 1-3:30 p.m., at Forum Room, Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.):
Peter Mathiessen (In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, National Book awards 2x winner), Michael Blake (Dances With Wolves, Academy Award), Harvey Arden (retired National Geographic magazine staff writer) , Walter Brasch (America's Unpatriotic Acts; The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Liberties). (For more on Mr. Peltier see: www.leonardpeltier.net

Friday, 9/29/2006 -- 11:30 a.m. -1 p.m., Bucknell University Forum Room: Panel about Freedom of Information Act and Sunshine laws as they apply to authors and the publishing community: Walter Brasch (president, Pennsylvania Press Club and professor of journalism, Bloomsburg University; author of several books, including, 'Unacceptable': The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina ), Paula Knudsen (staff counsel, ACLU), Terri Henning (general counsel, Pa. Newspaper Association)

Thursday, 9/28/06 -- 9:30 a.m., Centennial Hall, Bloomsburg University; 7 p.m., Kehr Union, Bloomsburg University. Brasch, Blake, and Mathiessen will discuss censorship issues, including both government censorship and self-censorship within the publishing industry.
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Tip: Event marketing--any event from a book signing to a book launch--can be cross-marketed. Let a florist supply flowers in return for a mention on your invitations and a spot for attendees to pick up their business card. Think of a business mentioned in your book and approach a similar one for some kind of double-exposure situation. While you're talking to them, see if they will sell your book in their retail store. Someone made the phrase "bookstores aren't the best place to sell books," because it happens -- in most cases --to be true.
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Teleconference:

Subscriber Nancy Mills says: "I have met such wonderful women through your group; this is the last call in the 2006 series and I don't want anyone to miss the opportunity. Thanks so very much.
THE SPIRITED WOMAN CIRCLE PRESENTS THE SAUCY SISTERS - On October 10th, from 10-11 am PST. Guests are Barbara Nowak and Bev Wichman,
wine experts, radio personalities, lecturers and bestselling authors of The Saucy Sisters' Guide to Wine. Call only $15. http://www.TheSpiritedWoman.com

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Fun and F r * *: If you purchased The Frugal Book Promoter in the past, I'd love for you to review it on Amazon or BN.com, perhaps just tell what part of it you found most valuable. If you do, send me the review link (URL) and I will send you an excerpt from my soon-to-be-released The Frugal Editor that includes some sidebars from the book that will help you with some tricky grammar. As a thank you, of course. HoJoNews@aol.com
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Positive (or Discouraging) Facts

It all depends on how you look at things! Here's a quotation from "A Bookselling Tail" in the July 17, 2006 issue of Publishers Weekly.
1. In 2004, 950,000 titles out of the 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies.
2. Only 25,000 titles sold more than 5,000 copies.
3. The average book in America sells 500 copies.
4. Only 10 books sold more than a million copies in 2005.
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Contributed by Allyn Evans, author of Grab the Queen Power: Live Your Best
www.queenpower.com/Evans/author.html. Also Allyn collaborates with me on a series of audioclasses for writers published by Double Dragon Publishing (www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/audio.asp).

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New members will help Authors' Coalition serve all its members better! Ask your writing friends to join at http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com. Paid members get a favorite review posted, consideration for an interview or review in Yarnspinners and Wordweavers. Membership is reasonable, too. We're even planning a speakers' bureau.

Tell friends to visit our blog, too. There they'll learn how to spark generally insipid book fairs by using value-added promotions: http://redenginepress.com/chjohnson .

http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com
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Tip: Here's a new literary journal associated with the University of West Florida. Go to www.uwf.edu/panhandler for info submissions. The editor says, "I've tried to design the journal as a venue for writers to publish work they are having a hard time getting published elsewhere."
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TIP: Dr. Bob Rich's newsletter is full of news for writers as well as other good stuff. Here's a tip for anyone with an e-book published this year: http://mooramoora.org.au/bobrich/mudsmith//bobbing6-2.html#eppie Scroll down a tad to see info on the new column I'm writing for Writers Journal. You see, this letter is also a good place to share with other writers and to promote your own work.

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Note: Reciprocal Links will return next week. This letter rant a bit long this issue. Thank you for you understanding. I know there are links in it you count on. If you need one, please e-mail me. (-:
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Please pass this letter on to others. Unlike many others, I do not mind if you use only portions of it as long as you credit the writers and include this subscribe information. "To subscribe to 'Sharing with Writers' send an e-mail to HoJoNews@aol.com with 'subscribe' in the subject line."
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Tip: Kaavya Viswanathan, the discredited author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life is using facebook.com to "reinvent…herself." Might it be something we could all use or is it something only for the young? Would we have to get an edge to use it effectively? What of those SWW subscribers and AC members who already have an edge?

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"AC is the current that propels your writing career."
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Authors' Coalition Founder
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Tip: A Writing Word: Periphrasis (Noun)

"Pronunciation: [pe-rê-'fræs-is]

Definition 1: The figure of speech whereby a longer, descriptive phrase is used in place of a simple word or phrase; circumlocution; the use of several words where one would do.

Usage 1: The plural of today's word is the same as all words ending on –is in English: "periphrases" (cf. "bases," "crises"). The adjective is "periphrastic." In grammar periphrasis refers to the use of two words to do the work of one, such as the complex comparative "more beautiful" as opposed to one word like "prettier".

Suggested Usage: Jefferson wrote, "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do;" that is, no periphrasis. But when Rumpole of the Bailey refers to his wife, Hilda, as "she who must be obeyed," he uses periphrasis for humor. While Robert Browning might have thought that "less is more," his periphrastic description of evening as "[w]here the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles" in 'Love Among the Ruins,' is more poetic than one word alone.

Etymology: From Greek periphrazein "to paraphrase" based on peri- "around" + phrazein "to say." "Frantic," "frenetic," "frenzy," and the –phrenia in "schizophrenia" are related via Greek phren "the mind." (Let us express our sense of infinite pleasure and delight to Ken Crost of Denver for his magnanimous transmission of today's word to our ever receptive offices or, as Jefferson might have said, "Thanks for the word, Ken.")"
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Sign up for Word of the Day with Dr. Language, at yourDictionary.com
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Thank Yous:

(Note: Each thank you may be set with a jewel of a resource for you to plumb for your book. Watch for them! Adapt them to your own publishing and promotion needs!)

To Dr. Bob, for publishing my review of Who Killed the Electric Car in his great, eclectic newsletter. See it at http://mooramoora.org.au/bobrich/mudsmith//bobbing6-2.html#reviews . Check out the entire newsletter while you're there; he has a nice section for writers.
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To Tracy-Jane, site owner of
Alternative-Read.com, for including my review of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes in her blog. This book should be in every writer's library. Find it at: http://tjbook-list.blogspot.com/2006/09/343-alternative-read-new-oxford-book.html
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To the Poet Warrior Project for posting information on the Military Writers' Society of America's awards (which include several "Sharing with Writers" subscribers. http://www.poetwarriorproject.com/poetwarriorproject/pressroom.html
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To Jill Ronsley at http://suneditwrite.com/ for including an Authors' Coalition link complete with logo on her site under "resources" and then "marketing for authors and publishers." You all already know about AC but her resource list includes many possibilities you may not know about.
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To Betsy Lee http://www.learningbooks.net/
for her reviews of Frugal at BN.com and Amazon. She says, "Before returning to my computer, I had to read Chapter 4 (Build Credentials for Your Kit) and Chapter 6
(Use the Web). I already have a website which gets a lot of traffic. I saw points which
will help get even more traffic. I have underlined a bunch of stuff and am ready to work on the computer some more although I am eager to return to benefiting from the rest of the book soon, very soon.
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To Donna Boyette, http://www.UndiscoveredWriter.net ,
for recommending Sharing with Writers to her his KickinThePants Tips list. Sign up for her newsletter in this posting. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kickinthepants/ If you think you need a kick in the pants occasionally (other than what I give you (-: ), check it out!
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To David Leonhardt, http://www.seo-writer.net for nominating Sharing with Writers for top 100 newsletters with Writer's Digest. Check his site; he provides many services for writers and is also The Happy Guy, http://www.thehappyguy.com .
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To Glenda Ivey of Jada Press http://www.jadapress.com/index.html for not only recommending The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't to the authors she publishes but for giving them Frugal as a gift (a sort of Christmas boost!) If all publishers were as author-centered, authors would love them all the more. She calls it a "world of promotional ideas gift." BTW, check out her book awards contest (open to all) at http://www.jadapress.com/BookAwards.html
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To Sassy Brit, for including the media release for the new literacy - friendly genre, that Diane J. Newton and friends (including me) published in her blog. It is Secrets, Fact or Fiction II. We did something promotionally brilliant (if I do say so myself.)
1. Tied a book to literacy
2. Found a way with the help of an interviewer to consider our offering a new genre (see why (-: )
3. Included a contest for readers to participate in the Secrets therein
http://tjbook-list.blogspot.com/2006/09/344-alternative-press-release-reader.html

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Authors' Coalition members! For credibility, use the AC logo on your promotional materials. Ask for it by sending an e-mail to HoJoNews@aol.com or download it with a click from the AC site http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com.
Be sure to link it to the AC site, too!
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Carolyn's Appearances and Teaching


The Muse Online Writing Conference: Lea Schizas, editor of "The Muse on Writing," and Carolyn Howard-Johnson are sponsoring this first annual virtual writers' conference October 9 - 13. This conference lets writers -- published or not -- mingle with some of the publishing world's personalities. Choose from a huge selection of free online workshops.
Bookmark this site

http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/

Go back often to see the newest presenters and workshops. Subscriber and website guru Terry Whalin will be one of the presenters. Carolyn will be presenting on both book promotion and the craft of writing, specifically "Writing Sparkling Dialogue in 10 Easy Steps."

To check on the growing faculty and workshop session, go to:

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Carolyn; June Casagrande, author of "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies"; and Kerry Madden, author of "Gentle's Holler," will hold a panel discussion at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101, Saturday, Dec. 2. at 5 pm. on "The Many Paths to Publishing." May all of you in Southern California come, enjoy and publish.
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Carolyn and Roger Storkamp will be presenting at the Sinclair Lewis Writers' Conference on Saturday, October 14 in Minnesota. Registration information is available at http://www.saukherald.com/ftp/lewis/conference.html and if you would like more details about this exceptional one-day event, e-mail me (HoJoNews@aol.com) or Jim Umhoefer, conference director, at jim@candidperceptions.com
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I will be speaking on promotion at the AML Writers Conference to be held on the Utah Valley State College campus in Orem, UT, November 4, 2006. Preregister on the AML website at http://www.aml-online.org/events/aml2006wcprereg.html
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Carolyn will judge the national newsletter competition for American Business Women Association. A winner will be selected from regional finalists at the organization's national convention at the Anaheim Hilton International Hotel, Anaheim, CA. on Sept. 28.
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& Carolyn will read from her chapbook Tracings, for Delta Gamma fraternity at a meeting to benefit their charity, the Blind Children's Center on Nov. 13, at 7 pm. Contact her if you are interested in attending. HoJoNews@aol.com .
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Paulette Ensign, board member of Publishers and Writers of San Diego, a SPAN and PMA affiliate, has invited Carolyn to speak on Marketing Your Book or Published Product from Unknown to Best-Seller Sat., Jan 27, 2007 in Encinitas, CA. Learn more about the organization and their programs at: http://www.publisherswriters.org/

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Opportunity: Watch for an all-tips newsletter sometime in August. If you would like your favorite writing or promotion tip to be included along with your name, book title and URL, e-mail be NOW at HoJoNews@aol.com!
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Tip: Sent to me by Hill Kemp, famous southern politician and author of Capitol Offense as well as contributor to Secrets II: Fact or Fiction: Here is an article you may want to read by the book editor of the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/03/23/DI2006032301079.html

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Reciprocal Links: Many subscribers are in a position to cross-promote. Let me know if you would like to trade some recommendation or promotion for a permanent spot (or as my list grows, semi-permanent) spot in this newsletter. I use only links that benefit writers
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Tip: This from Connie Gotsch, author of A Mouth Full of Shell www.authorsden.com/conniegotsch :
If you're a chick and into lit, or if you're a hen and into lit. Even if you're a rooster and into lit, this is for you. Check out the Lit Chicks http://www.thelitchicks.com// . It brings readers and writers together. Joining costs you a big fat goose egg.

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If you enjoy "Sharing with Writers" please nominate it for Writer's Digest's 101 Best Newsletters for Writers. We aren't big, we aren't old. So it would take a huge outpouring from subscribers to make a dent. Send an e-mail to writersdig@fwpubs.com with subject line, "101 Best Newsletters for Authors" and let them know what this newsletter does for you!
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Feature:

(This feature is inspired by a response to my First-Ever, All-Tips Edition. One subscriber reported a vicious element in her critique group. Here are my suggestions.)

Let's Talk Critique Groups

"Your advice to join writing groups is good. However, I'm a member of a 'prestigious' writing group in London, and some of the writers there are really vicious in their criticism! I have seen writers cry after their work has been crucified. A friend and I have been collaborating on a TV series and we are having a reading of one of the episodes next week. It's worth it though, because some of the writers' comments are generally very constructive."

Frances:
I facilitate a critique group and, as you know, teach at UCLA. Many of the instructors who teach a critique-type class there use an accepted model. Instructors are trained to keep a class to that structure to avoid just this kind of thing. Here are my suggestions:

If your critique group is destructive or not constructive:
 Initiate a chat about that within the group.
 Suggest electing one facilitator to keep the group in line.
 If the group doesn't have a guideline, adopt one for constructive critiquing.
 When all else fails, form a new critique group either from others you know who have similar interests or from those in the critique group you are in who prefer a different approach.
 Read the section in The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, on how to collect other writers for a project of your own -- classes, other critique groups, etc. are fertile ground for this but you want to be careful so that you get at least some writers who know writing but also writers who understand they don't have to slash and burn for a valid critique.
 Borrow critique guidelines from another group or get a book on the subject. Mine are available by sending an e-mail to hojonews@aol.com and I'll try to remember to post them on my new site when it is done.

Best,
Carolyn



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When was the last time you bought a book from an author you know? "Tracings" my new chapbook of poetry is available for that honor at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599240173/qid=1141623936/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4692447-2218401?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
but any book mentioned in any one of your "Sharing with Writers" newsletters would be a nice gesture. If all of us directed more of our reading to newer authors who write in genres we love or genres we need to stretch into, we would do ourselves and the publishing industry a great favor.
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Metaphors and Similes to Make You Smile:

(Every year English teachers from across the country submit their collections of analogies and metaphors actually found in high school essays. I can't acknowledge the resource but I thought they might not mind if I published them one at a time. I also thought some of you might have some favorites you could contribute.)

Here is one of the teachers' favorites:

"From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30."


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Essential Book and Record Keeping:

This letter is an entity of Authors' Coalition

http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com.

Edited and distributed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson,

http://carolynhoward-johnson.com .

author of This is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, Tracings, and The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, this newsletter lets authors share with each other.

Sharing with Writers does not guarantee entities or information in this newsletter. Subscribers should research resources though I do attempt to verify information used within its pages.

To submit information for consideration in this letter, e-mail Carolyn at

HoJoNews@aol.com

If you do not care to receive this letter, unsubscribe at

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Include "Unsubscribe" in the subject line but please, please don't tell me you've given up writing or promoting!

To subscribe to Sharing with Writers send an e-mail with "Subscribe" in the subject line to: HoJoNews@aol.com.

Please pass this newsletter on to friends or e-groups. It needn't be pasted in its complete form, but please credit this newsletter, Authors' Coalition and the individual contributors with anything you snip and paste.

Order the Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't
at stores like UCLA, Dayton University and San Diego State University's bookstores. Order it as an e-book or paperback at Amazon where it is discounted:

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193299310X/qid=1149015406/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-4692447-2218401?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Tracings, a chapbook of poetry, may be ordered at

http://finishinglinepress.com

and at,

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599240173/qid=1139084827/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7824821-4156653?s=books&v=glance&n=283155