October 04, 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, 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_OCT_No1Week_2007.doc

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Note from Carolyn:

Dear Authors' Coalition Members and SWW Subscribers;

It's October again. Time for ghosts and cute pumpy faces. And Writer's Digest's newsletter nominations. If you enjoy "Sharing with Writers" please nominate it for their 101 Best Newsletters for Writers. We (and that isn't the royal "we" for it includes YOU for sure!) could get so much more sharing going if more people knew about us. 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!

Without you, this newsletter is nothing. Truly.

Happy, happy writing and promoting and, yes, EDITING, too.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
HoJoNews@aol.com
Websites: http://carolynhoward-johnson.com and www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
http://authorscoalitionandredenginepess.com
or Amazon-direct for The Frugal Editor: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/
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 and
www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com

PS: This newsletter is early. I leave Thursday to speak to writers attending the Pen to Paper Literary Symposium. I am excited about meeting a whole lot of new people.

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Letters-to-the-Editor

Dear Carolyn:

You call it: The Frugal Editor. I call it: My Lifeline to Better Writing. Good job, Carolyn.

S.K. Hamilton, author of a compelling family drama, The Kahills of Willow Walk.
www.skhamilton.com
Watch the trailer: www.skhamilton.com/video.html
Visit the blog:
www.whispersatwillowwalk.blogspot.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 and ditto for The Fiction Flyer and Betty Dobson's Inkspotter. Membership is reasonable, too.
Tell friends to visit our blog. There they'll learn how to spark generally insipid book fairs by using value-added promotions. www.authorscoalition.blogpsot.com.
http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com
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Thank Yous

(There are leads here, just as you'll find in all the most innocent-looking areas of this newsletter. You never know when you'll find a name or a site that will help you network or write better!)

To Yvonne Perry, author, podcaster and blogger, for publishing my letter to her on her blog at http://www.yvonneperry.blogspot.com/. I hope you'll drop by and leave a comment. You might also explore her blog so you can query her about a podcast of your own. Those interested in the archived podcast may go to: http://yvonneperry.blogspot.com/2007/07/tgif-july-13th-2007.html
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To Nikki Leigh for including a promotion piece on how I have turned current events (like Mitt Romney's run for the Republican nomination) to the benefit of my novel in her blog. It's a subject most fiction writers need to learn more about it. You'll find it here: http://inspiredauthor.com/v3/place-carolyn-howard-johnson
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To Prill Boyle, author of Defying Gravity, for the lovely interview on her blog. She even included a picture of me I had forgotten ever existed (we all tend to forget when we don't want to remember! (-: ). It was taken in my very cluttered office. Find it at http://defyinggravitynow.blogspot.com/2007/09/q-with-carolyn-howard-johnson.html
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To Lynn Good who published by poem on her site at http://www.writeradvice.com/reader.html. Scroll down a bit to read Catherine Mansfield’s Unattainable Wish. While you're there, browse around to see what WriterAdvice.com can do for you.
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To Rose Marie Wolf for posting my article about how I've used news angles to promote (including getting radio and TV gigs). It turns out that my novel, This Is the Place, is a perfect case study. You can find the blog here: http://rosemariewolf.blogspot.com/. Nose around a bit. You might be able to contribute to this blog, too. (-:
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To Ina Hillebrandt, president of Pawpress™, for letting her authors know about Authors' Coalition and my books. Her website is http://www.inaspawprints.com/ and her phone is 310.471.5048. You'll want to poke around a bit and see if she publishes the kind of book you are writing.

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No part of this newsletter is paid advertising. If you would like to advertise to subscribers, display ads are available at www.howtodoitfrugally.com at less per year than most sites charge for a single month (see the advertising tab at the top of the page). Authors' Coalition www.authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com is also accepting ads.
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A Rant

An Answer to My Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies Pal

By Carolyn Howard-Johnson

In today's issue (Oct. 3) of the Glendale News-Press, June Casagrande, "A Word, Please" columnist, noted the sad (or not-so sad) loss of the hyphen due to the influence of the Web. Technology has thrust all manner of bad grammar habits onto those who love correct English. Many of these habits are enumerated in The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. Some are worried that the hyphen may go extinct! Well, I for one will cheer.

As June--who is also the author of Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies notes-- the Brits don't agree with Americans on some points of hyphen-using anyway. Worse the style guides can't agree and the dictionaries don't either.

But the Net is promulgating worse than just this distressing disappearing-hyphen syndrome. It has encouraged us to push all kinds of words together. That comes from what I call the "domain name influence." Or domainnameinfluence, if you will. Book or bookcover? Bookfair or book fair. Backmatter or back matter? Hard copy or hardcopy? You get the idea. Click here for the rest of the rant including one mistake you won't want to make in your query letter at www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com.

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Time is short! Watch for the third annual All Tips Edition of Sharing with Writers coming next week. Send your favorite tip for inclusion to: HoJoNews@aol.com with "SWW TIP" in the subject line.
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Opportunities

Glenda Ivey, owner/publisher Jada Press
http://www.jadapress.com/index.html and author is her own right, www.GlendaIvey.com, sends SWW subscribers information on two new contests:

Two Booksellers Launch Literary Contests

Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and Hewlett-Packard Co. just launched the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. If offers a contract with Penguin and an advance, $25,000. Here is the contest site: Amazon.com contest site: http://www.amazon.com/abna
Borders Group Inc., Court TV and Gather.com are also sponsoring a contest: The winner of "The Next Great Crime Novel" competition will receive $5,000 and a publishing deal through Borders. The URL is http://courttv.gather.com
Both contests are f r ^ ^.
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Cup of Comfort Calling for Your Stories

Cup of Comfort editor, Colleen Sells, has six great publishing opportunities for you:

Comfort is on the way for:
Loved Ones of People with Alzheimer’s <
Divorced Women <>
Breast Cancer Survivors <>
Military Families <>
New Mothers <>
Adoptive Families <>

The bestselling A Cup of Comfort book series is now seeking submissions for these six new anthologies. Stories must be true, original, positive, narrative essays (creation nonfiction), and 1,000-2,000 words. Entrants pay no fees. Writers' guidelines: http://www.cupofcomfort.com/share.htm.

I may enter under Military Families. Won't you join me? Let's make it a party!
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F r ^ ^ E-book on The Art of Presentation:

Statistics tell us that successful sales are directly related to the presenters' skills in showcasing his or her product. Book sales are no different. The good news is that presentation skills are just that: a skill set. They can be learned, in stages if necessary. And now there's a free e-book on the topic: Book Promotion and The Art of Presentation: From Online Chat Rooms to Live Speeches by Kathe Gogolewski. It's available for all registrants for the 2007 Muse Online Conference (see more under Carolyn's appearances in this newsletter). After the conference, it will be available at www.tri-studio.com on the Writers' Resource page as a free download. Learn tips for presenting in online chatrooms, and on radio and television. Carolyn Howard-Johnson offers sage advice in the section on television appearances based on her personal experience.

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Subscribers who have websites or newsletters of their own may be interested in the Free Articles 4 Readers and Writers on my site, www.howtodoitfrugally.com. I try to add new articles to it each week. If you don't see what you need for your blog, or newsletter, just ask. HoJoNews@aol.com.
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Author Successes

(If you read about others' successes you'll not only be inspired, you'll glean resources for future successes of your own. You are invited to send me news about your successes. Please use "AUTHOR SUCCESSES" as a subject lines.)

Elizabeth Lucas-Taylor will appear during the month of October on the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer. They will discuss citizenship and our political institutions with the goal of formulating civic solutions to solve community challenges. The group discussion is being sponsored by Polling Point, located in Palo Alto, California.

Elizabeth is a member of Arizona Society of Professional Hypnosis, Sisters In Crime, Society of Southwestern Authors, and Arizona Authors Association.
http://www.myspace.com/elucastaylor
http://www.elucas-taylor.blogspot.com
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Wow-Women On Writing received the Truly Useful Site Award from Preditors & Editors. This site has a great team including Sue Donckels, co-editor: This issue features Sharon Creech, Highlights’ editor, Kim Griswell, author Carol Parenzan Smalley and their own contributing editor, Chynna Laird, who offers up an essay. Find it at http://www.wow-womenonwriting.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. 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 The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success that is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The excerpt includes some of the sidebars from the book that may help you with some tricky grammar. As a thank you, of course. HoJoNews@aol.com, the Frugal Book
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Carolyn's Appearances and Teaching:

Carolyn will speak at the fourth Annual Pen to Paper Literary Symposium October 6, 2007. The conference, spearheaded by Valerie Coleman will be at the Dayton Urban League at 907 West Fifth Street Dayton, Ohio 45402. It will include tracks for music and screenwriting, in addition to writing and publishing books. It's not too late to register. (www.penofthewriter.com/pentopaper).
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson will a guest on Calling All Authors Radio Show Tuesday, October 9, 2007 on www.globaltalkradio.com at 5PM Eastern, 4PM Central and 2PM Pacific time. Hosted by Valerie Connelly who plans to discuss my teaching, my books, my marketing including the horrors, successes and plain old chutzpah of a tekky-challenged writer building a website from scratch. For more information contact info@callingallauthors.org.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson will speak at the Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word (October 12-14) in Nashville, TN. She will speak on "Realize Your Dream: From Query Letter to Bestseller--Frugally!"
from 2-3pm Saturday, Oct. 13 in room 31 of the Legislative Plaza and sign her books from 3 to 3:30 pm at the Signing Colonnade. You'll find more information on this fair and others you might participate in at www.howtodoitfrugally.com. Click on the Resources for Writers page and scroll down. For more on this specific fair, go to
http://www.humanitiestennessee.org/festival/current.php
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The f r ^ ^ Muse Online Writers' Conference, sponsored by Lea Schizas and Carolyn Howard-Johnson, is accepting registration. More than 1,000 attended last year. Learn more about this year's conference, October 8 to 14. .Our program is ready for you to check out at
http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/presentersregistration.htm
To see the final list of presenters go to: http://www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritersconference/2007workshops.htm
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be Valerie Connelly's guest on her Webinar Dec. 5th, 2007. The two will talk book promotion ad infinitum. There will be a printable agenda and follow-along materials prior to the event as well as a downloadable PDF of the Web screen shots and an MP3 recording of the Webinar available to registered attendees. There is a charge. Space is limited. Please register before Dec. 4. For more information or to register contact Valerie at info@callingallauthors.org.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson talks to Valerie Connelly's radio audience on "Editing as Branding: Spelling success from queries to your book's manuscript." Circle your calendar on Wednesday December 12th at 8PM Eastern, 7PM Central, 5PM Pacific time. A downloadable MP3 recording of the Webinar will be available to registered attendees after the event. Sign up by Dec. 11th. Space is limited. Contact Valerie at info@callingallauthors.org or Nightengale Press, publisher@nightengalepress.biz

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Carolyn's Appearances and Teaching for 2008:

Carolyn will speak on Jan 2, 2008, at Ridge Writers, the East Sierra Branch of the California Writers Club founded more than 100 years go by Jack London and friends in the Bay area. The provide f r ^ ^ programs for writers at High Desert Haven in Ridgecrest. Learn more at www.ridgenet.net/~curtdan/ridgewriters.
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be Valerie Connelly's guest on her Teleseminar March 19th, 2008 at 8PM Eastern, 7PM Central, and 5 PM Pacific Time. The subject is: "It's Your Call: Frugal Book Promotion with Carolyn Howard-Johnson." A downloadable MP3 recording of the Teleseminar is available to registered attendees after the event. Please sign up by March 18th. Space is limited. Let Valerie tell you more about it: info@callingallauthors.org
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be sharing with the nation's humor writers again in April 3-5 of 2008 at Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. I'll speak twice at the Kennedy Union on campus. http://www.humorwriters.org/ Registration opens Sept. 10, 2007. Find some of the nation's best speakers here: http://www.humorwriters.org/2008SpeakerBios.html
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Carolyn will teach a new seminar on the UCLA campus on March 22, 2008, room 1323 Public Service Building. It's called The Business of Writing: Carve Your Career with Great Queries and Covers. Here's the class description: "You've written your story, your poem, your book. What now? You've tackled your craft like a professional but when it comes to introducing yourself to the decision makers—the marketing and editing part of your work—you may show a lack of expertise with seemingly innocuous departures from accepted procedures. Like using a cover letter when you need a query. In this one-day seminar, the students will use basics taught in the class to critique drafts of letters they have brought with them. In the process you'll get grammar, punctuation, and even computer editing tricks you may apply to your other writing as well as your queries. You'll receive a handout of the does and don'ts for approaching gatekeepers straight from the mouths of agents who contributed ideas on the subject for the instructor's book on editing and samples of letters that have produced results. Participants will not only walk away with two letters they can be proud to send out, but also have a low-cost plan for using them effectively in a variety of ways." So, are you all planning to come to spend a weekend in the sunshine in LA and make it a business expense? (-:
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson will appear on Write On Four Corners with host Connie Gotsch on KSJE FM Public Radio from San Juan College. Access the broadcast at: www.ksje.com 10:30 am Wed. 2:30 pm Fri. Mountain Time. Click on the website to listen live in your appropriate time zone. Connie is the author of the mystery suspense novel Snap Me a Future as well as host of Roving with the Arts on KSJE and regular contributor to The Four Corners Free Press www.fourcornersfreepress.com

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Carolyn's new blog for the participants in Authors' Coalition-sponsored booth is designed to help all authors learn to make often hum-drum book fair booths into sizzling successes. Visit at www.authorscoalition.blogspot.com. Leave comments, of course.
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In the News: Remember a couple of months ago when I reported in this newsletter on the concept of longtail? The LA Times today (Oct. 2) reports on a perfect example of that in their Calendar section. Except that the author/publisher they feature is making big numbers, not lots of super tiny ones. Colleen Dunn Bates of Pasadena, published Hometown Pasadena in her den. It has sold 10,000 copies! She's now branching out to other cities like Santa Monica. The secret? A niche book with something in it others don't have (not just another Fodor's this book!). And a niche market (many towns like Pasadena are proud and insular). And she promotes with passion.

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A general marketing rule is that a product must be seen seven times before it is purchased. That is just as true for books (because they are products, like it or not!). Let people see that book cover image! So, you are invited to advertise as a site sponsor at www.howtodoitfrugally.com. for a year at the same price many sites frequented by readers and writers charge for a month. Yep, the frugal way! Click on the Advertising tab at the top of the page or contact me personally at hojonews@aol.com.
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Q&A A La Ann Landers

Tagging Books and Voting for Reviews on Amazon

(Note: This will be more easily read because the graphics will show up if you read it on my plog at Amazon. The URL is http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3JH18T58CY65P/002-3692730-7456014 .)

Dear Carolyn: I look forward to reading your book. Could you clue me in about how you tag a book on Amazon, and also how you vote for reviews?
I would appreciate any Amazon insight you could provide.
Thanks, Susan
From CHJ: Funny. I plan to write a book on this soon. On all the Amazon stuff. In the meantime, some quick answers: You can vote on all the reviews on Amazon, not just the professional ones. Details on how to do that below. And you'll find lots of info on the perks Amazon offers for targeting promotion for you book in The Frugal Book Promoter.

Now, here's how you tag a book. You go to a book's individual page. Mine is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/ref=cm_arms_pdp_dp/104-4997450-6971141. It is the page you actually order on. Then you scroll down. For the tag section you'll see something like this one taken from my page and you can add your tags in the window provided:

Tags customers associate with this product (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
editing (4)
marketing (4)
branding (3)
publishing (3) book marketing (2)
book promotion (2)
amazon (1)
book proposals (1)
book publishing (1)
book writing (1)
dialogue (1)
› See all 52 tags...


Your tags:
editors, book proposals, query letters, cover letters, mailing manuscripts, manual, dialogue tags, possessives, commas, quotation marks, apostrophes, metaphors, redundant, dangling participles, participles, gerunds, literary agents, organizing, capitals, adjectives, adverbs, dialogue, passive tense, agreement, tracking, italics, word, branding, editing, ls, writers aids, spelling, formatting, computer edits, selecting editors, contests, literary contests (Edit)


(Press the 'T' key twice to quickly access the "Tag this product" window.)
Help others find this product - tag it for Amazon search
You suggested this product show on searches for "gerunds". Can you suggest another search?
Manage all your tags for Amazon search.

To vote for reviews, you scroll farther down to the reviews where you can add comments about a review or click on the buttons, yes or no. It's a great way to support reviewers. These appear just under each review and look like this: Comment | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this).

You can also vote for Listmanias, So You'd Like Tos. There is much more on that in The Frugal Book Promoter. Some say the chapter on Amazon is worth the price of the book. (-:

========================================================Available: Audios from Audio Divas on many aspects of building a writing career are published by Double Dragon Press. Here is the page where you'll find the full list (http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/glist.php?imprint=AUDIO) including one on "Do It Yourself Indexing." The first audio, "Promoting Easy and Cheap!" is a F R ^ ^ sample you can download. Each comes with a resource guide. Here is an example of a guide for the audio-lesson Your Divas did on "Contests": http://www.derondouglas.com/audiosample/AwardResourceGuideContests.pdf
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TIP: For an example of how not to structure or do characterization or dialogue or set up conflict, go see the new Disney movie, The Game Plan.

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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! You know you want it on your website!
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Editing/Writing Tip: Most of us don't hire an editor to lend an extra pair of eyes to our query or cover letters. In fact, we often don't have time to run them by a writing partner. Yet these documents are among your most important because they are probably your first introduction to agents, contest judges, publishers, editors, producers and others. I cover this topic thoroughly in The Frugal Editor but in the meantime, please avoid mentioning that you "always wanted to write." TFE will tell you why. (-:

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Authors' Coalition: No Hum-Drum Book Fair Promotion Allowed is a new blog where you can follow watch how Authors' Coalition members make book fairs successful with cross-promotion, value-added promotions and a good assessment process. Find it at www.authorscoalition.blogspot.com. Leave your best book fair ideas there for others to see under the beige "comments" links.
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Success Story:
Salute! is a newsletter that many veterans who writer and writers who write for veterans subscribe to. It was just given an award by the Military Writers' Society of America. You can subscribe by sending a "SUBSCRIBE" message to katieseyes@aol.com. It is edited by Pat McGrath Avery and Joyce Faulkner.

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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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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.)

For Researchers: The Google News Archive has been launched to allow users to read historical newspaper articles from the 18th Century onwards. Users accessing the archive simply type in the event they want to research and they can then read accounts written at the time. The Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Guardian are among the many newspapers that have opened up their archive to Google. http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story2004.shtml
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Find Elizabeth at http://www.authorsden.com/elucastaylor or her new blog at http://www.elucas-taylor.blogspot.com/ or at MySpace http://www.myspace.com/elucastaylor
where you will find a writers' community.

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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 any of my books -- the HowToDoItFrugally Series to my chapbook of poetry -- for a place on my Resources for Writers or Resources for Readers pages on www.HowToDoItFrugally.com.
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Tip: Check to be sure your media releases include either "For immediate release" or a date of release before you sent them out.

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I use Vista Print for lots of my promotional materials. Be aware that shipping prices may fluctuate, depending on the deal of the moment. Even at that, the prices generally are good, the products they offer excellent quality and they do short runs. (I don't advise long runs on promotion material because your needs can change very quickly.) Please use this link:
http://www.vistaprint.com/frf?frf=815651421184
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Web Advice from WebforAuthors.com Expert Marshall Turner
Web Analysis 1
So what do you look for now that you have a way to view and analyze the activity on you website?
Don’t look at “hits.” Hits can be misleading because viewing a single web page can results in many hits. Why? Each element of a web page is a hit. Since a web page is typically composed of many images as well as content, each counts as a hit. A better measure is the “unique” statistics. How many unique visitors did you have? How many pages did they view on average?
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Learn more about WebforAuthors.com at http://www.webforauthors.com/ or contact Marshall at mturner@webforauthors.com.


======================================================= The New Book Review is a service of this newsletter and Authors' Coalition. It allows authors to get more exposure from their favorite review and reviewers a chance to have more readers see their reviews--with links, of course. Please check the guidelines on the blog site at www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. This has been popular so please allow some time before your review will be posted. =======================================================

E-Tips for E-Promotion
I'm going to be short, sweet and simple here. Do you have something on your website that will appeal to the same audience as you're trying to attract with your book?
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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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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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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.)

"Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future"

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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 How To Do It Frugally Series of books for writers, www.howtodoitfrugally.com.

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, send an e-mail to HoJoNews@aol.com with "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/

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/