November 30, 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_NOV_No3Week_2007.doc

In the spirit of the advice I give in the Frugal Editor, to use an extra pair of eyes whenever possible, this newsletter is voluntarily copyedited by Authors' Coalition member, Mindy Phillips Lawrence ~ mplcreative1@aol.com
www.freewebs.com/mplcreative
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Note from Carolyn:

Dear Subscribers and Authors' Coalition Members:

In one of her newsletters, Patricia M. Terrell reminded me that Amazon now provides forums and discussion boards. I thought that the release of the Frugal Editor would be a good time to celebrate and start a discussion on all things editing using this nifty and author - friendly feature from Amazon. You'll find it here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870?ie=UTF8&cdPage=1&newContentID=Tx1Q6JSPT9T0WQ9

Also, since I started my new blog at blogspot on the subject (www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com), I wanted ideas on what direction to take it.

Thus, I'd love for you to explore how this board on Amazon works. You'll find it on my book's page (any book's page!) just below the reviews. That can be quite a scroll if the author does an Amazon plog and has quite a few reviews, but keep scrolling. It looks like this:
Customer Discussions Beta (What's this?)
New! See recommended Discussions for You
This product's forum (1 discussion)
You created this discussion
The Frugal, Smart and Tune - In Editor
I have one tiny gripe. Some may find it difficult to figure out how to contribute to a particular thread. See the little arrow on the left of the link that says "The Frugal, Smart and Tuned - In Editor?" You click there to join that discussion. Not easy to see, huh?
Oh, and another little gripe. Once you've titled your thread, I see no way to go in and edit it. Ahem! You can edit your post but it looks like that typo in the title shall be there unto the end of the world.
Now, can I get you to go and add to the discussion? I'd like to know what you'd like to see from an editing blog. Feel free to share your editing war stories, too. Amazon and I are all ears. ( - : AND, include your URL. You do want people to know where to find you, right? And sign up for the RSS feed that will let you know when people have posted. Otherwise you might miss something you want, indeed NEED, to know.
Happy, happy writing and promoting and, yes, EDITING, too.
Carolyn Howard - Johnson, HoJoNews@aol.com
Websites: http://carolynhoward - Johnson.com (literary)
http://HowToDoItFrugally.com (all things about writing)
Authors' Coalition: http://www.AuthorsCoalitionandRedEnginepress.com
For the Frugal Editor, Amazon - direct: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/
Blogs: http://AuthorsCoalition.blogspot.com, a blog focused on book fairs
http://www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com, a blog on all things publishing
http://www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, a blog focused on YOUR reviews
http://www.TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com, a blog focused on editing, formatting and craft

PS: See below for one of the first Q&A entries on The Frugal, Smart and Tuned - In Editor blog (www.TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com).

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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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Q&A a la Ann Landers

On Editing: Let's Tidy Up Those Empty Spaces in Your Copy

Question: Carolyn, one of the most common editing mistakes I get from writers submitting work to [Dotsie Bregel's contests at National Association of Boomer Women, www.BoomerWomenSpeak.com] is the space after a sentence ending. Industry standards changed a few years ago and although it is an ongoing battle between the professors [academia] and publishing professionals, the standard is now ONE space before you begin the next sentence. I'm not referring to LINE spacing, but the space you put at the end of a sentence before you begin the next sentence. When we have had many fine entries and time is of the essence, the lack of proper formatting like this can be a deciding factor against a particular entry.
Care to comment on that? Do you see a lot of this? I know I do.
Georgia Richardson, a.k.a. Queen JJ, humorist for NABBW, National Assoc. of Boomer Women, www.queenjawjaw.com

Answer: Georgia, yes, these are formatting problems that editors, contest judges, and publishers struggle with. Unfortunately, many writers don't think that kind of editing and formatting is part of their business. Obviously, from what you say, it is. The reason that the double space rule at the end of the sentence changed is because kerning is handled differently than it once was. This delicate spacing between letters and sentences used to be done by the linotype operators who set the type; double spaces helped them make the type look nicer on the page. Now computers do all that adjusting of letter sizes and spacing for us. To adjust to the new typing pattern is really tough for those of us who learned to type . . . mmmmm, a thousand years ago. I included information on this in the Frugal Editor for writers who can't adjust, don't want to or just want to double check their spacing before they submit.
Here's how to do it: (Learn easy ways to use your computer to clean up your spacing before you submit anything by going to The Frugal, Smart, and Tuned - In Editor blog, www.thefrugaleditor.blogspot.com.)
Leave a comment while you're there! Be sure to try to work in your title and sign your name. ( - :

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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 Joyce Anthony for publishing an exceptionally nice interview on her blog and publishing a first person essay I wrote with it. If you are curious about my dogs and why life begins at 60, go to http://joyceanthony.tripod.com/blog/. Please leave a comment while you're there. Comments are good for Joyce. Good for me. Good for you. ( - :
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To Yvonne Perry for posting "Check Your Sell - Your - Book Expertise with Carolyn's Quiz" on her blog at http://yvonneperry.blogspot.com/2007/11/november - network - with - us.html. She's always selects good stuff for authors to post! Drop by and meet her.
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To James M. Brown editor of Coffee Press Journal for publishing my very small prose poem, "The Fragile Art of Warfare." Find it at: http://www.coffeepressjournal.com/currentissue/07 - nov%20dec.pdf.
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To Irene Watson and Victor Volkman, for doing such a grand job of publicizing the interview they did with me for AuthorSuccess.com. Find the blog and link to the podcast at: http://insidescooplive.com/blog/2007/11/19/frugal - book - promotion - with - carolyn - howard - johnson/
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To Frances Lynn, author of Crushed for reviewing my new Amazon Short, The Great First Impression Book Proposal, on her blog at http://writerholic.blogspot.com/. You'll want to read it. In it, for in it she explains why even fiction writers may need to know how to write a great book proposal - - or at least gives one of the reasons why they should. ( - : Find Book Proposal at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/102 - 4855286 - 3876940?url=node%3D13993911&field - keywords=carolyn+howard - johnson&x=6&y=14
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To Nikki Leigh. I don't know whether to post this under opportunities or thank yous but in any case you'll want to check it out! Nikki ran a great promo line, the prologue and the first chapter of This Is the Place on her blog at http://startatbeginning.blogspot.com/2007/11/this - is - place - by - carolyn - howard - johnson.html
You'll want to learn more about my award - winning novel but you also will want to know more about Nikki and all she does for authors.

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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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Sharing Music: A Fun Idea

Hi Carolyn,

Here's the URL to the song lyric widgets I told you about. I put a couple on my MySpace page, below my music player if you'd like to take a look, there's a link to my MySpace page in the sig line below.

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/?t=16&a1=2254&a2=38952&ly_fla_bx=754851 - 2626449

I thought they were kind of cool. :)

Lyrics Download.com had just about any song you can think of. Just type in your song in the search box at the top of the page.


~Carol Burge
Visit My Blog
http://romancewriterwoes.blogspot.com/
My Myspace Page
www.myspace.com/carolburge
Dangerous Desires
2003 RWA Great Beginnings Contest
4th place, historical category
2007 Week 6 Chase the Dream Mini - Critique Winner

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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.)

None to report this week. Let me know, people! See above for guidelines! ( - :

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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 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.
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Serial Feature

On Green Responsibility

In the next few issues Diane Tinney will share ways that you might green up your office.


Pay bills electronically; paperless statements and billing save trees and energy.
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Offered by Diane Tinney, president and publisher, Keene Publishing, Home of Moo Press Children's Books
www.KeeneBooks.com
Illuminating lives, one book at a time.

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Carolyn's blog on anything related to publishing - - from scolding Oprah to support of freedom of speech issues is at http://www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com.
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A Little Inspiration Shared with Fellow Subscribers from Mindy Phillips Lawrence

Mystic Blessing
May the stars align
and offer precious gifts - -
solace and deepest peace.
May prosperity knock on your door
and the eureka of creative wisdom
inhabit your words.
Let the stars circle round you
With their mystic beauty,
And heaven’s sweet Ave
Greet you at morning.

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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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More on Selling Books

(From Raff Ellis, author of Kisses from a Distance, Cune Press, www.raffellis.com)
I wanted to contribute some of my ideas about promotion. I'm more experienced now and have used some of my old marketing experience (I was VP of marketing for a computer services company in a former life). I have four lecture/signings set up at two local, rather large, libraries, one at a bookstore, and one at a Genealogical Society meeting. How I got those was persistent and hard work but once I had them, I made up postcard size flyers, all with the same information, except the date & place of course, and brought 100 to each location for handout. My hosts were surprised, as no one had done this before, and the last time I checked, they were all gone. Someone stopped me today to show me one of the cards, not knowing that I was the one who provided them to the library.

Here's my skinny. I know these aren't Harry Potter numbers but I've personally sold 283 autographed special edition hardcovers in the last three months in addition to those sold by Amazon and my publisher. I've also come up with some unique venues, e.g. a farmers market, a bowling alley, and a couple of churches.

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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/eAuthor.php?Name=Carolyn%20Howard - Johnson ) 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: Are you looking for places to send extra books, damaged books or books you've reviewed but don't want to keep. Check out this site:
http://www.booksforsoldiers.info/info/index.php?title=BooksForSoldiers.com_Info

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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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Personal Sharing

I thought you'd like to see a highlight from my short cruise with my son's family to Nassau and Key West. There is a picture of me with two of the most beautiful little girls and a stingray and, of course, a poem for you to mull over. Here is the exact link to the travel page. http://www.carolynhowardjohnson.redenginepress.com/travels_with_carolyn.htm

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Authors' Coalition: No Hum - Drum Book Fair Promotion Allowed is a 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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Help: I am looking for anti - bias sites as well as sites that promote peace to link to on the tolerance page of my website. If any of you have any favorites, please send me the URLs. E - mail me at hojonews@aol.com.

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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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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.)

List of Poetry Publishers: http://www.topicsites.com/publishers/poetry.htm

Some Good Articles For Writer’s to read: http://www.authorsguild.org

List of Independent Publishers & University Presses http://www.newpages.com/npguides/bookpubs.htm

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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: Karen DeGroot Carter, author of One Sister's Song, a lyrical challenge to common assumptions about love, race, and respect (www.PearlStreetPublishing.com), sent along a letter from Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love. Lisa obviously worked out something with Dutton's, a Los Angeles area indie bookstore, to sign copies ordered from them. In return she used her list to suggest people order from them either online or with a toll free telephone number and she would sign and personalize their purchases. What a great way to cooperate with a bookstore that has been good to you. She also published her offer on her blog at www.sustenancescout.blogspot.com.

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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 are of 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

Selling Through Your Website 4
Shopping Carts
Here’s how shopping carts usually work. Visitors click on merchandise to put an item in the shopping cart. The shopping cart then allows the purchaser to enter
payment information (credit card). The payment information is sent to the
payment gateway that authorizes or denies the transaction. If authorized,
the payment is deposited into your merchant account which deposits to your
bank account. And to make the entire transaction secure, you website will
need a security certificate too.

What will this cost? More than you want to spend! Plus there are monthly
fees whether you process any transactions or not. Setup of a shopping cart
is complex and expensive. Only consider this after you have built up a good
business and have a lot of different things to sell.
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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 for your review will be posted. =====================================================

E - Tips for E - Promotion

Use a service like Feedblitz.com to let people sign up to receive your blog automatically. To see how this works, go to www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com. You can sign up to get that blog just to see how it works. You can, of course, unsubscribe as well. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to play with things a bit. I'll offer my blog as a guinea pig. ( - :
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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 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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Opportunities

Radio Interview: Learn More About Editing and Promotion F r ^ ^

Irene Watson and Victor Volkman are amazing interviewers. Working together they bring the best out in their guests. Not only will you want to tune into hear them grill (Question? HA!) me but you'll want to see if their radio show might be one you can query. Go to: http://insidescooplive.com/blog/2007/11/19/frugal - book - promotion - with - carolyn - howard - johnson/
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Call for Submissions

Queer Collection: Prose & Poetry 2008 - - Call for Submissions

Deadline: December 31, 2007. Pays $50 upon publication. Looking for creative original prose and poetry by and for a gay, lesbian, bi, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) audience. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be considered. No erotica. http://www.queercollection.com
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F R ^ ^ Publishing, Editing and Promo Advice

There is still time to get in on the discussion or post a question to me on the Boomer Women Speak forum. Go to http://www.boomerwomenspeak.com/index.php home page and then click on the "Visit our forums" and then follow the instructions. Scroll down on the forum page to the section for writers where you'll see my name.

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Carolyn's Appearances and Teaching:
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. They provide f r ^ ^ programs for writers at High Desert Haven in Ridgecrest. Learn more at www.ridgenet.net/ ~curtdan/ridgewriters.
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Please join Carolyn Howard - Johnson for the
f r ^ ^ January Wasabi Club meeting, a teleseminar the last Friday of every month at 1 pm ET/10 am PT where you can learn from the PR pros about how to conduct a savvy PR campaign. To join, please visit the 'Wasabi Club' page at www.wasabipublicity.com to register.
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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 share with the nation's humor writers again in April 3 - 5 of 2008 at Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. She'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. This conference sold out 77 hours after opening registration. It is not too early to be thinking about 2010.
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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 do’s 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 will 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? ( - :

To enroll call Marcus Hennessey, 310 267 4888, or go to www.uclaextension.edu and enroll for 735.18, Registration # T6393.
Or go to www.uclaextension.edu. Because it is a one - day seminar, it is less than $100.
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Carolyn Howard - Johnson will appear on Write On Four Corners with host Connie Gotsch on KSJE FM Public Radio broadcast from San Juan College. Access the program 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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Tip: May Lattanzio says, "Want your site on the first page of Google? I got this from About.com, a very informative site . . . :
http://webdesign.about.com/b/2007/11/23/i - want - my - site - on - the - first - page - of - google.htm?nl=1

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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.)

"Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is, like, sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's, like, a
serious bummer."

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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.

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/

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 newsletter, 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/

The second in the How To Do It Frugally series of books, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success, is available at Amazon at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/


The Great First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need To Know About Selling Your Book in 20 Minutes or Less, will soon be available on Amazon as a Short for 49 cents.