October xx 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/Sharingwithwriters_Oct_SecondWeek_2006.doc
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Note from Carolyn:

Dear Authors' Coalition Members and Subscribers:

This was my breakdown week.

Those of you know me know I am generally on a high--annoyingly so, many would say I'm sure. Last night I lost it and this morning I was in tears.

Actually, it has probably been coming on for a while. The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success should have been in the hands of my publisher in August and isn't even in the mail to my editor (May I remind you that it's October).

I have unread e-mails stacked up and AOL was out of whack for several days while I was presenting at a conference. I came back to a notice that it had turned away heaven knows how many of you weren't among the mere 1,000 messages it did accept.

And then there is the website bugaboo. I was ecstatic after Joyce Faulkner (author of In the Shadow of Suribachi) helped me set up my new howtodoitfrually.com site. We only did two pages but they were superb with a little event crawler, a downloadable .pdf of my media kit, etc.

Last night the site went to hell in a handbasket along with the Authors' Coalition site and I am reevaluating. It may not be January but I am turning over a new leaf.

I resigned from the critique group I was facilitating on a volunteer basis, put the new site to bed to be worked on slowly at a later time (maybe even in another life) and have made some other adjustments. One of them is that this newsletter will only be coming out on a bi-weekly basis. I may send you important extra messages on occasion, but there you have it.

Wish me luck. I hope you, too, will reevaluate so that you can enjoy writing more, not less.

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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Tip: From Allyn Evans, author of "Grab the Queen Power: Live Your Best Life!"
http://www.allynevans.com/: I just signed up to receive Google alerts for my name and book name on Google. It's a great way to keep track of when your name or book or website goes up on the web. And it's so easy to do.

http://www.google.com/alerts

When you sign on, put quotation marks around your title and/or your name so that you don't get alerts on every word in your search but only on the right combination of words.

I got the idea from an article about Internet safety for children in Prevention magazine, and then decided it would be great way to monitor my own work and activity on the web.

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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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Open Letter on Fairness in Publishing:

(Pauline Field, activist and editor of a newsletter for men and women interested in gender equality (and other equality as well), sent this notice to me. I thought you all--writers of both genders--would find it interesting and possibly actionable. She mentions Ellen Snortland, a good friend and wonderful columnist. To subscribe to Pauline's newsletter, send her an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to pfield@fieldworks.net.)

In yesterday's edition of Women's ENews, there was an article on the discouraging findings from new studies on women in the media.

Recent byline studies of influential magazines--no matter their slot on the political spectrum--publish far fewer articles by women than men. On average, women write one article for every three by men in the Atlantic, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

The ratio of male to female contributing writers for progressive magazines was a 30:5 ratio, the Washington Monthly, 26:4; and 21:12 at the American Prospect. Only In These Times, at 6:6, offered parity.

PBS's NewsHour has fewer than 2 out of 10 female guests…
Progress in two key areas--expanding the number of women in journalism and advancing more to top jobs and improving the ways women are depicted in newspapers, magazines and on television--has been inconsistent.
Locally (Southern California), Ellen Snortland's columns for the Pasadena Weekly, have been cut from every week to every other week…

It's important that readers, viewers and listeners step up to exert pressure. We must keep asking editors for more material from female writers, reporters and commentators whose work we admire and want to see more of. If you have been reading Ellen’s column, for instance, now is the time to let the editor at the Pasadena Weekly that… they need to re-consider. And while you are writing, why not send some of the numbers from this article and remind the Pasadena Weekly that they are supposed to be an “alternative” newspaper – to represent not just the Pablum available in other local press, but other views such as that expressed in Ellen’s “Consider This” column. [The editor's name is Kevin Urich, his e-mail is kevinu@pasadenaweekly.com.]
We [could also send to editors] examples of work we regard as important to our local media outlets and ask that they employ that writer or explore that topic and suggest a woman to do it.

We need to praise editors when they feature strong work from female journalists and columnists and pester them when they don't.

We need to do this not once, and not for just one woman, but consistently and generously and for many. And we need to enlist our colleagues, friends, family and other fans of female journalists in this effort.
We can do this by e-mail, phone or U.S. mail. The medium doesn't matter; the message does.
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Opportunities:

Aussie Author Cheryl Wright and Crew Offer Fun Promotion

Cheryl Wright and her buddies including subscribers of this newsletter Janet Elaine Smith and Lea Schizas are in the throes of a fun campaign for readers--the Once Upon A Time
effort. To participate (and see what these authors have done so you can adapt the idea to your own book's promotion campaign) go to
http://aussieauthors.com/once_upon_a_time_mainpage.htm
sign up for the newsletter and then click through to the promotion page.
Here's the site for Aussie Authors and you'll note that a couple Americans and Canadians have been made honorary Aussies--quite an honor, that! . http://aussieauthors.com/Authors.htm

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"AC is the current that propels your writing career."
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Authors' Coalition Founder
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Tip: Kathe Gogolewski, a retired classroom teacher turned author of children's books, has been selling her book, Tato, a fantasy adventure for middle grade readers, to classrooms all over California. In her new free e-book, she outlines four components that can help you complete a successful sale of your program to a school or teachers. It is loaded with tips for: 1) writing simple lesson plans for your book, 2) finding grants to pay for you and your books 3) approaching teachers or administrators, and 4) creating your presentation for the students. Feel free to absorb each section alone or in combination with others. For the more ambitious, the sections can help you realize your goals when worked together, but each section will work alone. Feel free to use the guide in either capacity. Find it at: http://tri-studio.com/EbookMarketingtoTeachers.html and once that Authors' Coalition site is back up, you'll be able to find it on the free e-book page there, too.

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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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Dr. Bob Rich, freelance editor, finds the good things in your book and makes suggestions for improving it. Find him at
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Need help with your writing career? From coaching and ghostwriting to publishing and marketing, contact your Author's Advocate, Patrika Vaughn, at www.acappela.com
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Tip: This is a tip from Barbara Marshak, author of Hidden Heritage...the Story of Paul LaRoche, an inspiring biography that covers a number of relevant issues, such as race and culture, adoption, family dynamics, and following a dream. She says, "Don't forget to include local school districts and libraries when contacting resellers. Staff development and diversity instructors are often excited to discover new books with a regional interest or a theme connected to current-day issues."

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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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Authors Successes:

(All author successes are an inspiration but are often also a possible lead to a success of your own. Revel in the success of others but ask yourself how that author's success might be promulgated into one for you.)


Hidden Heritage, just released June 2006, placed "Best Books Award Finalist" from USA Book News, October 2006. Visit the author, Barbara Marshak , at http://www.barbaramarshak.com/ Further info about the subject of this biography, Paul LaRoche, the award-winning Native American musician also known as Brule," can be found at http://www.brulerecords.com/ .

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Web tips from Audio Classes for Writers

(This series of CDs and MP3 audios are published by Double Dragon Press. Instructors are Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Joyce Faulkner, and Kathe Gogolewski. They are produced and moderated by Allyn Evans.)
Getting all kinds of hits on your website but no one's buying your book? Perhaps the design of your page doesn't have a clear call to action. Perhaps the layout makes it too difficult to make a purchase. Perhaps your copy doesn't compel the reader to buy. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is only half of the story. Website optimization is more than just getting hits. Understand terms like Search Engine Optimization, meta tags, keywords, link exchanges, webrings, blogs, etc. Learn more about the basics of Website Optimization defined for writers. Check out Audio Classes for Writers, Website Optimization: Don't Overlook a Crucial and Fairly Inexpensive Marketing Tool You can download and listen on your computer or your iPod. Go to: http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.asp?ISBN=DDP00003QP
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Reciprocal Links:

Freelance Writing Organization - Int'l: Thousands of free writing resources.
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The Shy Writer: An Introvert's Guide to Writing Success - Author C. Hope Clark advises you how to "sell your words, not your soul" when you promote your work. http://www.theshywriter.com/
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Walter Brasch's America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights. ) is a look at the history and effects of the USA Patriot Act upon the erosion of our civil liberties and violations of at least five of the Bill of Rights. It has been endorsed by liberals and conservatives.
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Feature:

Practical Suggestions for Your Virtual Book Tour:

(From Janet Elaine Smith who is always willing to share her how-to-do it ideas on promotion with SWW subscribers. Consider her PromoPaks at http://starpublish.com )

Before you set off on a virtual book tour, remember that you are visiting various blogs as a guest. You don't run the show. Always leave a comment about something in the blog before you issuing an invitation to partake of something you have to offer, whether it is to purchase your book, to visit your blog or to hang out at your website. Sadly common courtesy is all too often in short supply.

The best way to find blogs that best fit your virtual tour is with this search: www.blogsearch.google.com. Don't just look for the obvious; be creative. After all, we are all writers, and imagination is our forte. And look for something that you can tie your book into. Let me give you a couple of examples. You know, show; don't tell!

My book Par for the Course is a timetravel that takes a modern day golf pro and sends her back in time to golf with Mary, Queen of Scots, at St. Andrews Golf Course in Scotland. Mary was the first woman golfer--true fact.

OK, so I did a search for Mary, Queen of Scots. History buffs who like to follow her are always looking for new info. Many of them do not know that she was the first known woman golfer. (I found that info in an old kids' encyclopedia.) So, when I find a blog about Mary, I go to it and ask a simple question: "Do you know what sport Mary, Queen of Scots, was noted for? If you don't, you can find out in my time travel, Par for the Course. If you do, or if you want to take a guess, come on over to my blog at www.janetelainesmith.blogspot.com and leave me a comment." Then I leave a comment about their blog, like "I was pleased to learn that Mary was the tallest woman in Scotland at the time she lived. I am a firm believer that I am never too old to learn something new."

Another one I did was for my book In St. Patrick's Custody. I did a lot of similar blog entries to the one above only tied to this book of when it was close to St. Patrick's Day. I then invited the blog visitors to go to Patrick and Grace's website, http://crumbycapers.tripod.com
(a fictional website I set up especially for the protagonists of that book--another promotional idea, by the way!) and leave me a note in the guestbook. Happy St. Paddy's Day!

Another one I did for In St. Patrick's Custody was in connection with homelessness, because Grace ended up in a homeless shelter. That one got picked up and noticed by a few print newspapers and it led to a couple of actual print interviews about the issue of homelessness.

I don't always leave a bunch of signature lines in a blog, but I do give the info if it pertains to the book I'm blogging about at the time. For instance, with Par for the Course, I usually include "Named best timetravel of the year by Affaire de Coeur Magazine."

With In St. Patrick's Custody I might end with something like "Responsible for countless new volunteers in homeless shelters across the country."
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Get to know me at
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"Janet Elaine Smith...has the
talent to write an endless supply
of romance books that will be
around to appease many future
generations. Talent such as she
exhibits only comes around once in
a lifetime." Suzie Housley,

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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: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success 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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Articles of Interest to Writers:

Carolyn is on a rant again. Go to MyShelf and let me know (nicely or in no uncertain terms) what you think of this, my most recent column for MyShelf. It's easy to do in the MyShelf guestbook. The title is:
The Fatwa Against Books!
Carolyn Honors Dead Nobel Winner and Shames Those Who Would Commit a Book to Death by judging it by its cover or the press it is printed on.
The URL is:
http://www.myshelf.com/backtoliterature/column.htm

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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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Tip: If you need a video, podcast or other item to spice up your media kit or your website, Douglas P. Olson is the video guy for Book Publicists of Southern California (BPSC). His prices are reasonable and you can reach him at 310 457 4084 or dpowolftracks@yahoo.com.
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Carolyn's Appearances and Teaching:

Carolyn Howard-Johnson; June Casagrande, author of "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies"; and Kerry Madden, author of "Gentle's Holler," will discuss "The Many Paths to Publishing." at Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101, Saturday, Dec. 2. at 5 pm. May all of you in Southern California come, enjoy and publish.
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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 Howard-Johnson 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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New for 2007! & Mark April 28th and 29, 2007, for the LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books. More to come soon in this newsletter.
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Conference Report and an Opportunity:

Lea Schizas, editor of The Muse on Writing, and Carolyn Howard-Johnson sponsored their first annual virtual writers' conference October last week. This free conference sold out with some 1036 attendees and many well-known people in the publishing world acting as presenters including Shel Horowitz, Allyn Evans, Joyce Faulkner, Kathe Gogolewski, Penny Sansivieri, Terry Whalin, Michael Larson and Elizabeth Pomada, Janet Elaine Smith and more.

If you would like to present next year I suggest practicing your query skills on Lea now. Positions will be tight after that kind of success and I have to tell you this was a wonderful experience in helping other writers as well as successful for promoting oneself as a professional writer. It's also an opportunity for writers to learn more at no c^o-s-t. Watch for news of it for next year in this newsletter and
bookmark this site http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/agenda.htm


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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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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 Connie Gotsch: for an interview and reading from my poetry chapbook, Tracings, on her radio program, Write On. Go to www.skje.com to learn more about the program, perhaps to query Connie for an interview of your own.
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To Allyn Evans who will be starting her own Amazon plog soon and managed to include info on the Frugal Book Promoter plog as part of her campaign to drum up interest. See how she did a fellow author a favor while stirring up a little advance excitement. http://www.allynevans.com/about.html
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To Phil Harris, for including Authors' Coalition in his list of organizations that can make a difference to authors. Here is the link to his article on the growing subculture in publishing at http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=13410 . Phil is the author of Waking God and a member of Authors' Coalition.

========================================================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. Anyone who remembers the old story problems we were given at math time in grade school will appreciate this:

"Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph."

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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 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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and at,

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