March Fourth Week 2007
Sharing with Writers
A newsletter that is also a community. Share your ideas. Learn from theirs!
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 letter in plain vanilla text, just scroll down. To read this newsletter with a bit more pizzazz (not much, though!) at Authors Den go to:

http://www.AuthorsDen.com/adstorage/1713/Sharingwithwriters_March_FourthWeek2007.doc

Learn about an opportunity to participate in the LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books -- whether you live in LA or not -- by going to my blog at http://redenginepress.com/chjohnson

The LA fair is one of the nation's biggest and most prestigious with more than 130,000 visitors and the power of the LA Times behind it.

Find pictures of last year's booth at http://tri-studio.com/kathegogolewskiPHOTOSfair06.html
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Note from Carolyn:

My fellow AC Members and SWW Subscribers:

Authors' Coalition has a new sponsor. It is a web service launched three years ago by Marshall Turner to address the needs of writers. Marshall is the company's gracious CEO; between his knowledge of the worlds of business and internet, I know we all can learn much from him.
He says, "www.WebforAuthors.com is pleased to be a sponsor of Authors' Coalition as part of our outreach and author education efforts. [We want] authors to have effective, professional websites at a low price. By building in advanced features for content management, mailing lists, and to sell your work, WebforAuthors.com provides a system so easy to use that “if you can surf the internet you can build a website!”

For those who want an experienced company to create and manage their website, WebforAuthors offers affordable web design and site management. To find out more, visit http://www.webforauthors.com/ or contact Marshall at mturner@webforauthors.com.

Marshall plans to provide "Sharing with Writers" with web tips for authors very soon. I hope you'll all explore his site to see what he can do for you, especially those of you who don't have a site, are planning a new one or are tired of not having control of your existing site. And, of course, I hope you'll all search for his segment in this newsletter starting next week.

Best,

Carolyn Howard-Johnson
HoJoNews@aol.com
Websites: http://carolynhoward-johnson.com and www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
http://authorscoalitionandredenginepess.com Blogs: A blog focused on book fairs at
http://redenginepress.com/chjohnson and another blog that is about writing and reading at www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com.

PS: Be sure to see my rant below. You know how upset I get when I think authors are being exploited, especially the innocent and uninitiated. With experience we are better able to weigh the advantages (and disadvantages!) of some services.
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Letters-to-the-Editor

Dear Carolyn,

I know what it takes to compile and maintain media databases, and I'm suspicious of any organization that offers unlimited access to multiple databases for $49 a year.

They would need to have dozens, if not hundreds, of employees calling every single radio and TV station, newspaper, and magazine in the United States. People in PR use Bacon's, Burelle's, Corner Bar, my list of radio talk shows, and other sources. MondoTimes is almost never mentioned as a viable information provider.

I charge $329 for my list. My competitor charges $397. Given the constant turnover in the media, these lists are high maintenance. The fact that this company does not even list its address or phone number on its web sites also concerns me.

William A. Gordon
"Gordon's Radio List"
http://www.radiopublicity.net/
http://www.nrbooks.com/
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Dear Carolyn,

I finished reading This is the Place (http://www.carolynhowardjohnson.redenginepress.com/published_works_almanac.htm) yesterday, and it is excellent. Not only that, but it is important. I'm proud of you.

Gene Garrison, author of
There's Something About CAVE CREEK (It's The People); From Thunder to Breakfast; Javelina! Have-uh-WHAT; and Widowhood Happens
http://www.lulu.com/ggarrison
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Feature

One of the Best Paths to Book Promotion

So how do you get the word out about you as an author and (secondarily--though many don't believe this!) about your book?
Use education as a driving force. It is not only an advantage to the writing and general communities, it also will serve your promotion campaign well. We have many subscribers on this list (Chris Meeks is a great example) who have done this effectively. Here is a short list of ways you can make a natural willingness to share with others work for you. The list is followed by a media release you can use as a template when you next put yourself out there to educate others. (-:

List:
 Present seminars on campuses. Utilize most colleges outreach programs like the UCLA's career program (see the media release pasted below).
 Teach classes: In the regular university system, community college systems or adult/extension systems.
 Utilize your library facilities and events programs.
 Tutor.
 Edit.
 Offer excerpts from your book. Offer it to instructors as a text. ! Many times ( if you think about it) your book could work as an teacher's aid for units on subjects like tolerance, gender equality, etc
 Serve as guest speaker for other instructors.

M E D I A R E L E A S E
Contact: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
E-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com

For Immediate Release

Author and Consultant Helps UCLA Students Play the Career Game
Veteran publicist and promotion how-to author Carolyn Howard-Johnson will teach UCLA students winning plays for their budding careers. Students will play The Career Game during Career Week 2007, from April 9-13. Howard-Johnson will appear on Tuesday April 10 at 5 pm at the James West Alumni Center on campus.
Students will learn to develop special strategies through one-of-a-kind workshops and meetings with presenters from various industries. Career themes will be played around the themes of traditional games including Scrabble, Sudoku and Pictionary.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the 43rd and 44th District of the California Legislature Her first novel, This is the Place, and her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, are both award winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She consults on publishing and promotion and is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program where she will be teaching a course called “Savvy Marketing for New Authors” April 14. Her book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T was USA Book News' Best Professional Book and an Irwin Award winner. Her THE FRUGAL EDITOR will be released this spring.
Howard-Johnson may be reached at (HoJoNews@aol.com) Information is also available at http://www.HowToDoItFrugally.com. More about the consulting and strategies panel at http://career.ucla.edu/cw7/TuesdayApril10.asp. More about career week at http://career.ucla.edu/cw7/TuesdayApril10.asp.
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(Photos, book cover art and a full media kit are available electronically or by post upon request.)


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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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Resources:

These resources were utilized by subscriber Ian Middleton, Travel Writer and Photographer. He is sharing them with you. Visit him at:
http://www.ian-middleton.co.uk/
http://www.ianmiddletonphotography.co.uk/
http://ireland.mysteriousworld.com/

The Book Report http://www.thebookreport.net/
Tues 13th March 2007 at 8.00 am Central US time. This will be available for download from their website.
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Around the World Radio: http://www.aroundtheworldradio.com/
Thursday 15th March 2007 at 10.00 am Pacific US time. You can listen live on their website.
If you cannot tune in at the time then both shows will available to download from my website shortly afterwards:
http://www.ian-middleton.co.uk/travelwriting/radiointerviews.html
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I was also interviewed by Norm Goldman, editor of http://www.bookpleasures.com/ Read the interview here:
http://www.bookpleasures.com/Lore2/idx/0/2555/article/A_Conversation_with_Travel_Writer__Photographer_Ian_Middleton.html

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No part of this newsletter is paid advertising.
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Editing Tip: Infinitesimal (note the spelling, too!) doesn't mean very small. It means endless.

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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: From Nadine Laman, author of Kathryn's Beach (www.nadinelamanbooks.com). Nadine puts ads in high school event programs. Here are the advantages she enumerates:
 Inexpensive
 For good causes
 Probably high readership.
 You know who your ad is reaching
 You can target your audience. As an example, if your book is about an athlete, use programs for athletic events.
 There will likely be no competition in the vehicle from other authors.

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Last Call! You don't have to be present to benefit from the promotions associated with LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books! Here are the perks for participants Authors' Coalition's booth in the LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books:

 Yarnspinners and Wordweavers will feature an ad for your book.
 You will qualify for an interview or a review in Yarnspinners and Wordweavers.
 Authors' Coalition will run a year-long ad on their site.
 You automatically become a paid member to Authors' Coalition entitling you all the members' perks including a review on the AC site, participation in the AC bookstore, and more.

You can participate in some way whether you can be in Los Angeles for the fair or not. When you do you will get exposure at the fair to more than 130,000 visitors. If you participate in the catalog more than 500 or more booksellers and press will see your book

To subscribe to Y&W, send an e-mail with "subscribe" in the subject line to nate@redenginepress.com. To learn more about the LA Times Fair program go to http://redenginepress.com/chjohnson.
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Quotation: "Listening to most people's English feels like watching somebody use a Stradivarius to pound nails." ~David Foster Wallace


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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. 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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Rant: Taking Advantage of Authors

Unfortunately, we authors all look as if we just feel off the tail end of a donkey cart. Once an American merchant in Acapulco told me I had "creampuff" written on my forehead so, obviously--though I've been around the publishing track a few times--I'm can be as gullible as you or that new author publishing for the first time around. But those few treks around the track put me in a position to warn you and I'm not feeling like mincing words.

Because I'm so ticked off, I'm going to leave out the name of an offending bookstore because I don’t like slash and burn tactics. I suspect their heart is in what they are doing. Still, when I see an ethical lapse--intentional or not--no more creampuff. Here comes Napoleon.

At first I was pleased that there was going to be a new bookstore out there that welcomed all authors. You know, someone who judges a book by its contents, not its cover or the press it's printed on. The concept was so novel it got a write up in the LA Times even though the bookstore is in New York.

The story noted that this bookstore even had a patio at the back where they would welcome new self- and subsidy-published authors. OK. In New York that patio is going to be used (comfortably) possibly 30 days out of the year but that's another story.

I'm going to be in New York for BEA so I asked Star Publishing's marketer extraordinaire to set something up for me. You may know Janet Elaine Smith. She places books in bookstores and arranges for events for Star authors who pay an additional fee for the service. So, this new bookstore was a new opportunity, right? This is what she found out: (Go to my blog at www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com for the rest of this article and a few more ways to avoid scams).

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Author Successes

(You are invited to send me news about your successes. New books, awards and more. If you read about others' successes you'll not only be inspired, you'll glean resources for future successes of your own. Please get in the habit of using subject lines, though, that will not be interpreted as spam.)

None to report this week. Make me ad that some of you are missing this opportunity! because I KNOW there must be some great news out there

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Fun and F r * *: If you purchased Promoter in the past, I'd love for you to review it on Amazon or BN.com. Make it simple; 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, the Frugal Book
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Tip: Do you know how to let Google trace the links to your website so that when your name or your book's title is mentioned on other people's sites or blogs you'll know about it? If not, go to www.google.com/accounts. Sign in if necessary. Scroll to one of the last links that says "Alerts." Follow the directions. When you type in your name or book's title, put quotations around it so that you won't get a notice of every separate word in your name or title. If I didn't do this, as an example, I'd get alerts every time Howard Johnson hotels were mentioned. That could overwhelm my mailbox. You'll want to pinpoint the exact information that will help you analyze which of your online promotion efforts are helping you.

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Carolyn's next one-day seminar on building a promotion campaign for your book is April 14 at UCLA's Public Policy building, 9:30 am. Registrations are available at the door.
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Carolyn's Appearances and Teaching:

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's new course at UCLA is Creating a Promotion Package for Your Fiction or Nonfiction Book (Engl. 735.1, Reg. #S9465). It is scheduled for April 14, 2007, one day only. On the UCLA campus, Public Policy Building, Room 1278, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. By advance registration or registration 1/2 hour before class.
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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 (California) in the auditorium featuring Sona Ovasapyan and Christine Alexanians.
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Mark April 28th and 29, 2007, for the LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books. Go to www.redenginepress.com/chjonson for the fair-focused blog with details on how even out-of-towners can participate.
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New! & Carolyn will sit on a publishing/writing career panel for UCLA's Career Program. April 10, at the Career center, corner Strathmore and Westwood (near the campus) in Westwood, CA . 5 pm to 7 pm.
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Carolyn will be speaking to PEN USA's Emerging Voices fellows in May at Antioch University. This is a closed event but you can learn more about the program for yourself or to help other talented writers by going to www.penusa.com.
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NEW! Free Frugal Editor for Publishing Professionals a BEA! Carolyn will be at the Biblio Booth at Javits Center in New York City at 1 pm Friday, June 1, signing her new The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success.
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Carolyn will train American Business Women of America's (ABWA) newsletter editors publish prize-winning, professional periodicals June 9th at their regional convention in Downey, CA.
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Romance Writers Everywhere! Come to the meeting I'll be speaking at on Saturday, June 16th, in San Diego to meet me and the National President of Romance Writers of America (Jill Limber) who will speak on writing a great synopsis--something most of us aren't that adept at (for lack of practice if nothing else). I'll speak at 10 am, she'll speak after lunch. Lunch and meetings at the Mission Valley Handley Hotel is $25 for members, $30. for nonmembers.
For reservations contact hospitality chairwoman Mary Galusha at: marydave66@yahoo.com . Please copy Linda Sundstrom, lsundstrom@ucsd.edu if you want to arrange seating at my table. The group's website is www.rwasd.com.
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Carolyn will be interviewed by popular author and marketer Janet Elaine Smith hosts an online radio program, "Marketing for Fun and Profit," every Monday evening at July 9 p.m. ET on http://internetvoicesradio.com/ .

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Carolyn will speak on "Your Media Release: You Write So You Can Do It! September 8, 2007 at the Valley Cities Jewish
Community Center in Sherman Oaks, CA www.CalWritersSFV.com
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Carolyn will moderate a panel on publishing at the West Hollywood Book Fair on September 30. Circle your calendars. It's f r ^ ^ Even those who are old hands at publishing will learn something new, I promise!
West Hollywood Park
647 N San Vicente Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Learn more at http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org/Mambo/
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Carolyn will speak at the fourth Annual Pen to Paper Literary Symposium October 6, 2007, Dayton Marriott, 1414 S. Patterson Blvd Dayton, Ohio, 45409. The conference will include tracks for music and screenwriting, in addition to writing and publishing books. Start planning now to attend this elite event and take advantage of the early bird special (www.penofthewriter.com/pentopaper).
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The f r ^ ^ Muse Online Writers' Conference, sponsored by Lea Schizas and Carolyn Howard-Johnson, is accepting early registration. More than 1,000 attended last year and openings are limited. Learn more about this year's conference, October 8 to 14, and how you can assure your spot 2007. We will present an all-new program soon. Go to:
http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/presentersregistration.htm
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New for 2008! & As you can see 2008 is already beginning to fill. I will be sharing with the nation's humor writers again in the spring of 2008 at Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. I'll speak twice at the Kennedy Union on campus.

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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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From authors' advocate Patrika Vaughn, www.acapella.com

Marketing to Museums and National Parks
To learn more about approaching this lucrative market, go to the site of the American Association of Museums (http://www.aam-us.org/) where they have a bookstore with titles on how to do just that.
For contact information for bookstores at national parks, go to http://data2.itc.nps.gove/hafe/bookshop/index.cfm.


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Endorsement:
"www.HowToDoItFrugally.com , by Carolyn Howard--Johnson [is] a top website for writers . . . I'd say my ROI is over 1,000%. The advice is particularly strong in addressing the new author where they are in learning the publishing/selling process. Very practical. The site is excellent." ~ Hill Kemp, author of Capitol Offense, http://www.capitoloffense.com/, and contributor to Secrets, Fact or Fiction? I, ISBN 0-9737282-5-6 and Secrets, Fact or Fiction? II, ISBN 1-59594-062-6, LOC 2006904627, http://www.secretsfactorfiction.com
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Resources
From Elizabeth Lucas-Taylor

(Elizabeth contributes at least one valuable paying resource per SWW issue--either a great place to sell material or find writing craft or promotional idea--and sometimes throws in a resource for you.)

THE RAVEN CHRONICLES - Seeks nonfiction, fiction, columns/departments, and photos/artwork. Subjects: art., literature, food, culture. Pays on publication. Deadline (scroll down for print issues):
Guidelines: http://www.ravenchronicles.org/raven/rvsubm.html

PINK MAGAZINE - Seeks nonfiction, columns/departments, and photos/artwork. Subjects: issues dealing with highly successful female business executives or entrepreneurs. Pays on publication.
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Find Elizabeth at http://www.authorsden.com/elucastaylor or her new blog at http://www.elucas-taylor.blogspot.com/

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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 place on my Links for Writers or Links for Readers pages on www.HowToDoItFrugally.com.
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Opportunities:

SECOND ANNUAL FLASH PROSE CONTEST SPONSORED BY WRITER ADVICE
(I am including this in its complete form in "Sharing with Writers" because a new contest like this often offers opportunities for authors that more established ones don't. If you want more information on how contests can help you promote better, check the index of The Frugal Book Promoter.)

Writer Advice, www.writeradvice.com, is searching for flash fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction that grabs, surprises, and mesmerizes readers in under 750 words. If you have a complete story with a strong theme, sharp images, a solid structure, and an unexpected discovery, please submit it to the WriterAdvice Flash Prose Contest.

All entries should be typed and submitted in hard copy, not e-mail, to B. Lynn Goodwin, Writer Advice, P.O. Box 2665, Danville, CA 94526-4339. Entries must be postmarked no later than APRIL 15, 2007.

You may enter UP TO THREE pieces. Enclose a $10 check for EACH entry made payable to B. Lynn Goodwin. This will help defray the costs of the contest. If no prizes are awarded, checks will be refunded.

Include a separate cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, current e-mail address, and each story title. Please put the story
title, but not your name, at the top of each page. Finalists will be asked to submit a brief biography and an e-mail copy of the story.

Names of all winners will be announced in the June – July issue of
Writer Advice, www.writeradvice.com.

JUDGES: Last year’s prizewinners Lyn Halper, Jen Hurley, Kirsten
Beachy, and Mary Vallo are this year’s judges. Read their pieces and
biographies by clicking on the Archived Contest Entries.

PRIZES: Winning stories will be published in Writer Advice. In
addition, First Place earns $60, Second Place earns $30, Third Place
earns $20, and Fourth Place earns $15. Honorable Mentions will also be
published. A list of all winners will be posted in the June – July issue of WriterAdvice.

SPECIAL PERK: All entries accompanied by an SASE will be returned with brief comments.
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From Colleen Sells, Cup of Comfort Editor

The bestselling Cup of Comfort www.cupofcomfort.com book series is actively seeking inspiring true stories for six new volumes (see below). We seek narrative nonfiction stories that read like fiction. Stories must be uplifting, original, in English, typed, titled, and 1000-2000 words.

$500 grand prize; $100 ea. all other stories; copy of book. No entry fee.

Email submissions to wordsinger@aol.com. No attachments; one submission per email. Include full name, mailing address, email address, phone number.

For detailed writer’s guidelines: http://www.cupofcomfort.com/.

A Cup of Comfort for Single Mothers Submission Deadline: 3/20/07
A Cup of Comfort for Horse Lovers
Submission Deadline: 5/15/07
A Cup of Comfort for Cat Lovers
Submission Deadline: 7/01/07
A Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors
Submission Deadline: 8/15/07
A Cup of Comfort for Spouses & Children of People with Alzheimer’s
Submission Deadline: 10/15/07
A Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women
Submission Deadline: 12/31/2007

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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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Wordstuff ™
Something to Make Writers Smile:
(Every year the Washington Post conducts a neologism contest. These are the winners, one at a time. You might have some favorite neologisms metaphors or similes that make you smile. If so, please contribute.)

"Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp."

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"AC is the current that powers your writing career." http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com
Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Authors' Coalition Founder
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E-Tips for E-Promotion:
This one bears repeating. Call online radio shows with a positive comment that fits with show's topic. After you've added something useful to the show, it's OK to mention your book as way to show you are a credible resource.
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This is a regular Sharing with Writers feature by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of USA Book News' Best Professional Book THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T and the soon-to-be released THE FRUGAL EDITOR: PUT YOUR BEST BOOK FORWARD TO AVOID HUMILIATION AND ENSURE SUCCESS. (E-tips for E-promotion was originally a regular feature of SellWritingOnline.com.)

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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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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 is a place to share with others and learn from others.

Though I do attempt to verify information used within this newsletter's pages, Sharing with Writers does not guarantee entities or information. Subscribers should research resources

To submit information articles, tips or other information e-mail Carolyn at HoJoNews@aol.com . Please put "Submission: Sharing with Writers" in the subject line.

If you do not care to receive this letter, unsubscribe at HoJoNews@aol.com

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 at http://starpublish.com/carolyn_howard-johnson.htm

or paperback at Amazon where it is discounted:
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, published by Finishing Line Press may be ordered at www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599240173/qid=1139084827/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7824821-4156653?s=books&v=glance&n=283155