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We would like to thank Carolyn Howard-Johnson for continuously offering great advice to
writers at any stage of their careers. With the publishing market constantly changing, it is im-
portant to stay on top of the most recent trends. For example, only a few years back e-books
and Kindle were not considered “real books.” Now they account for a large portion of overall
book sales.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson brings her experience as a publicist, journalist, marketer, and retailer to the advice she
gives in her HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers and the many classes she taught for nearly a decade as
instructor for UCLA Extension’s world-renown Writers’ Program. All her books for writers are multi award winners
including both the first and second editions of The Frugal Book Promoter and her multi award-winning The Frugal
Editor won awards from USA Book News, Readers’ Views Literary Award, the marketing award from Next Generation
Indie Books and others including the coveted Irwin award. Her newest book in the series is How To Get Great Book
Reviews Frugally and Ethically: The ins and outs of using free reviews to build and sustain a writing career.
Howard-Johnson is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment
Award, and her community’s Character and Ethics award for her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was
also named to Pasadena Weekly’s list of “Fourteen San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen” and was given
her community’s Diamond Award for Achievement in the Arts. Her first novel is out of print but is still available using
Amazon’s New and Used feature (http://bit.ly/ThisIsthePlace) and her agent is shopping her second, This Land Divid-
ed, already a prize winner in WriterAdvice.com’s Scintillating Starts contest.
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