September 30, 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:

http://www.AuthorsDen.com/adstorage/1713/Newsletter_Sept_FourthWeek_2006.doc
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Note from Carolyn:

Dear Authors' Coalition Members and Subscribers:

Something new here, for me, anyway. Let's call it ph*sh*ng by post.

In my regular mailbox (you know, the old fashioned kind located outside one's front door?) I received a "bill" from Listing Corp.com. It was for the exact amount I had just paid GoDaddy by credit card for my new domain name. It purported to be pretty much for the exact services I had just signed on for, too. No real address was listed, no phone number to call to see what was going on. Luckily I procrastinated. When I was a little wider awake I found a disclaimer, "This is not a bill. This is a solicitation." On the backside of the "bill." On the bottom of that page. In typeface about the size you'd expect for a disclaimer.

So this note to you is not a pleasant little tip. It is a warning to read the fine print--front and back--on all "bills" you receive. A warning not to pay a "bill" just because it looks like it is for something you already purchased. And to run like h--- when you get something all nice and official-like when it gives you only website contact information.

Now, if that saves you $100 or so in the next year, isn't it worth the $0 cost of this newsletter? (-:

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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Reciprocal Links:

Carolyn Howard-Johnson will take a limited number of editing jobs each month. These are complete edits and include a tutorial on edits made. Fiction and poetry only. HoJoNews@aol.com with "Edit" in the subject line.
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To subscribe go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/publishingandpromoting/ .
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Tip: My daughter, the Ph.D. candidate (yes, I am proud) sends you this site; it's good for vocabulary building -- not a bad habit for writers to get into -- and I plan to use it help the adult ESL students I tutor. http://www.soundkeepers.com/GRE/
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Reciprocal Links:

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Read author interviews, market information, and more in Writer Advice, www.writeradvice.com. To subscribe or to submit material for consideration, E-mail LGood67334@comcast.net Put "subscribe" in the subject box.
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Feature #1:
Blogging Your Way to Book Profits: Five Tips for a Successful Book Promotion Blog

by Patrice-Anne Rutledge

You created a blog to promote your book and you're pretty happy with the
way it looks and the intriguing content it offers potential readers. But
so far the stampede of visitors--and buyers--hasn't arrived and you're not
quite sure what, if any, effect your blog is having on your overall book
promotion campaign. If this sounds familiar, you have plenty of company.
The good news is that by doing a few simple things, you can greatly
increase your traffic--and your potential sales.

Here's what to do:

1. Position Your Book Information in a Strategic Location

It sounds obvious, but many authors create a quality blog and then bury
the information about their book in a location that blog visitors can't
find easily. Your blog shouldn't be a blatant advertisement, but your
visitors should be able to find information about your book the minute
they reach your blog. Positioning a graphic image of your book's cover
plus a strategic link or two near the top of your blog's sidebar should be
enough to remind people that you're the author of a book related to the
blog's topic.

2. Use Keywords Wisely

Every website, including your blog, should have a list of associated
keywords, or keyword phrases, that describe the main topic of the site.
For example, if your book is about spelunking, your target keywords could
be "spelunking," "caves," and "cave exploration." Although your blog
content should never be contrived to suit keywords, you should keep your
blog keywords in mind every time you write a post. Including relevant
keywords in your blog headings, content, and linked text helps with search
engine rankings. Be careful not to overdo the use of keywords, however, or
you could be labeled a keyword spammer. Several strategic mentions of your
keywords should be enough.

3. Offer an Email Subscription to Your Blog

Offering email delivery of your blog postings can help you drive
additional traffic. Some readers may view your blog directly. Others may
subscribe to your RSS feed. Offering email updates provides a third way to
keep in touch with your audience, one that may already be very familiar to
readers who don't use RSS yet or are put off by complex-sounding
technology.

Some services to check out include FeedBlitz (http://www.feedblitz.com),
Zookoda (http://www.zookoda.com), and Squeet (http://www.squeet.com).
FeedBurner (http://www.feedburner.com) offers its own email subscription
service as well as provides built-in support for FeedBlitz and Squeet.

4. Comment on Other Blogs

Find other blogs that your target audience might read and comment on
interesting blog posts. Entering a blog comment is easy. Most blogs have a
link next to each post that you can click to open a comment page or dialog
box. Adding insightful commentary or other useful information is far more
helpful than just indicating that you like--or dislike--a specific post. By
listing your name and the URL of your blog, people will come and check you
out if they feel your comment adds value.

5. Ping for Attention

When you update your blog, use a ping utility to notify multiple blog
update services that you have new blog content. Using a utility to notify
multiple services, such as Technorati, My Yahoo!, Moreover, and Feedster,
with a single entry is a big timesaver. Pinging helps to index your blog
faster, which leads to greater search engine visibility. Some free ping
utilities to consider include: King Ping (http://www.kping.com),
Pingoat (http://www.pingoat.com), and Ping-O-Matic
(http://www.pingomatic.com).
If you use FeedBurner, you can also set up automatic blog pinging.

By trying one or more of these blog promotion techniques, you should start
seeing an increase in your blog traffic. And by ensuring that all these new
blog visitors learn all about your book, an increase in book revenue should
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website strategies from Patrice-Anne Rutledge, author, The Web-Savvy Writer: Book Promotion with a High-Tech Twist. http://www.websavvywriter.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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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 .


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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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"AC is the current that propels your writing career."
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Authors' Coalition Founder
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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 Penny Wormet, author of Loving Larry, for reviewing The Frugal Book Promoter on Amazon. You can see how she used Amazon's profile page and a carefully worded attribution to help promote her work while helping others promote theirs by going to:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product//193299310X/ref=cm_rv_thx_view/103-1821844-4531016?ie=UTF8
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To Bill MacDonald, American Authors' Association book reviewer for his lovely review of Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered. He says,

"The author’s use of phrasing is most eloquent and flows like honey on a hot July Utah day."

I loved that because many of the stories are set in Utah, a place with a little known and much-maligned culture. In made me smile. Find it at: http://www.militarywriters.com/AAA%20Book%20Reviews.htm

To Connie Gotsch, host of Write On for spreading the word about projects I have going on that will help writers. Here is the information on her program:
My next announcement will be on her program on Sept 11. To learn more about this program writers can go to http://www.ksje.com/ to read about the show. Click "roving with the arts." You can only listen during Connie's show times, 10:30 that Wed. or 2:30 on Friday, Mountain time because she doesn't archive but some may want to get in the habit of listening live using Media Player. Just click on http://www.ksje.com/,

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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:
New! Carolyn will participate on a panel at 10:30 am on Saturday, October 7, sponsored by the Friends of the Duarte Library, a fundraiser for community literacy. She will share her ideas on How to Get Published.
Learn more about the " Duarte One Town, One Book" festival at http://www.duarteonetownonebook.org/festival.html It is at 1301 Buena Vista Street Duarte , CA 91010. (626) 358-1276
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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 Howard-Johnson and Roger Storkamp will copresent 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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Carolyn 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 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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New for 2007!Coming Saturday April 21, 2007 at 10 am. Led by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Poetry! Don't Let It Molder in a Drawer, Publish It! A seminar and poetry reading at the Glendale City Central Library in the auditorium.
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Tip: Everyone, I've been going to tell you that one of the best references for your desk, one best borrowed rather purchased (unless you're doing a lot of submitting!), is the International Directory of Little Magazines and Small Presses. It's also called Dustbooks because it's published by Dustbooks, Inc. It's edited by Len Fulton. It has thousands of entries, includes addresses and editors' names and tells you what magazines like and hate.

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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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Feature #2:

Advertising that Works
Location! Location! Location!
By Carolyn Howard-Johnson

You know Frank Sinatra's song? Loosely quoted from memory it goes: "I've been a puppet, a poet, a pawn and a king?" Sometimes I feel like that. I've been everything. When it comes to promotion, it works for in my favor and it can work in your favor, too. This article is about how to position ads in newspapers and I could go on an on about the reasons for everything I tell you here but this is only a newsletter and I don't have the space. Thus, because I have worked as journalist (one side of the fence) a publicist (another side of the fence) and because I have been in a business that buys lots of advertising (retailing), and because I've appeared in ads and watched how the big guys do it, I'm hoping you'll just trust me. These are the secrets. This is how it is for newspaper advertising.

The number one reason people don't respond to a newspaper ads, other than that the ads are targeted to the wrong audience, is they don't see them. Count the pages in your newspaper. How many readers do you think even look at every page? Not many. This is how you can overcome that.

1. Buy space on the front or back of a section. You do that so that is seen by anyone, no matter how they rummage through the sections--even if they're only looking for the comics. To better afford this, bargain with newspapers to use up the first full page section that comes up because an ad is canceled for whatever reason.

2. It's common knowledge we should try to get space
on the right page, as far forward in the paper and/or the section as possible, that we should try to match the product/book we're selling to the section we're advertising in, and that it should appear on the upper half of the page, rather than the lower where most of the other ads are

These are generalities. There are individual cases when the rules might be broken effectively. But the best place is the one I mentioned in number one. Go back and read it.

3. Full page ads work best. Ask yourself, how many of those little ads you read. If you can't do a full pager, go for 1/2 page ads that follow the rules above.


To make any ad, regardless of the size, work well, though, you make them look like a news story or editorial, not an ad. Here's how you do that:

1. You write a story or a pitch. You're a writer. You can do it. Pretend like you're the staff writer writing the story. Rave but not too much and then give the reader the information needed to follow up, something a staff-writer for that newspaper might neglect to do. That includes a website, phone number and address.

2. Don't use frou-frou. That includes reverse copy (white copy on a black background), line art, graphics, arrows, cute fonts. Make it look like a report on the front page of that same newspaper. Even newspapers know that when they print what they call advertorials, readership skyrockets by hundreds of percents. That's why they often sell you an ad and give you free advertorials--to get you hooked.

3. Sprinkle in subheads, perhaps in boldface. Use them in place of the bullets or arrows you're tempted to use.

4. If you use art, use a photograph similar to one a newspaper would run to illustrate a story. How about a picture of you doing something that illustrates your book? Don't use just a book cover or just a thumbnail of your face. Who cares? Only people who know you. Get some human interest going. Use a dog. Get some action happening.

5. Write a headline with bite. They call them sound bites on TV but they're really your first-line ad.

6. Frequency counts. No matter what kind of ad you decide on--even if you have to ignore much of what you find here--run ads often. People who were interested last time will act more readily on their second exposure and even more readily on their seventh. That's why Time-Life has run the ad I appeared in for their CD series thousands of times throughout the US and kept it up for more than a year.

========================================================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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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:

" Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze."


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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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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

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

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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:


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