award-winning author of  the HowToDoIt Frugally Series of Books for authors.IntroducingThe Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book  Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success,  now available for  presales at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/ Also,  "Sharing with Writers" newsletter: Put "Subscribe" in an e-mail to  HoJoNews@aol.com. Learn more atwww.HowToDoItFrugally.com .

The Frugal Editor Put Your Best Book Forward to  Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. By: Carolyn  Howard-Johnson RedEnginePress ISBN:  978-0-9785158-7-4 Available for preorder at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/   Carolyn  Howard-Johnson, author of "The Frugal Book Promoter: How to do What Your  Publisher Won’t," adds another generous offering to the Frugal series, a professionals guide to professional manuscript presentation in her new book,  "The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success." No matter how  much we study and learn, no matter how proficient,knowledgeable, and skilled we become with language, grammar, punctuation, and spelling, Carolyn tells us little gremlins are always chipping away at our work. And they are sneaky. They hide the little chips and holes and errors from our creative sight so we see only the intended message on the page. With simple  words and easy step-by-step sidebar instruction boxes "The Frugal Editor" zooms  in on all those tricky little problems "gremlins" that haunt every writer, and teaches you the tools and steps to hunt down and eradicate them. You'll discover you can tame that risky, frisky spell and grammar check word editor on your  computer, so it actually works for you, and how to effectively use your word  program's tools to ensure proper formatting. And more. Beginner or  master will find helpful tips and information for professional presentation in "The Frugal Editor." Every writer,  no matter their skill level dreads that four letter word: Edit.Every writer is haunted by gremlins. Arm yourself with Carolyn Howard-Johnson's "The Frugal  Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success." for  a frugal, successful hunt and an acceptance feast when editors and publishers feast their eyes on your polished work. Charlene Austin www.writersandreadersnetwork.com  www.carrielynnlyons.com

"The Frugal Book Promoter How to Do What Your  Publisher Won't" By: Carolyn Howard Johnson Star Publish Trade  paperback 277 Pages ISBN: 1-932993-10 From its beginning, It's Never to Early to Think About Marketing, to the last chapter,  Success as a Motivator, "The Frugal Book Promoter. How to Do What Your Publisher  Won't," Carolyn Howard Johnson, shares her experience as a publicist, editor, instructor, motivational speaker and award winning author of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, along with invaluable information and resources with a  generosity that contradicts the title of this must have, practical, easy to  follow map to the top of Publishing Mountain.  "Promotion is not a sprint but a marathon. As any coach  knows, you start training slowly  and build up steam.  "CHJ. From  the Palm Springs Writer's Guild Newsletter" I’ve had the privilege of  attending one of Ms. Johnson's workshops and experienced first hand this coach’s  ability to spark a bonfire of enthusiasm, confidence, and ideas for promoting  yourself and your work. The sparkle and energy she generates in person is sprinkled with such enthusiasm and talent onto every page of “The Frugal Book Promoter,” I was quickly caught, inspired and fired up with the steam to fuel my  own marketing efforts.  Â "Free  Publicity isn't Free." But you can  cut costs, cut corners, save money, time and effort. And this book tells you how  to: Use the Web; your Own Website, your writing experience and skills; create  mailing lists; make your own ARC's and get book reviews; write press releases;  create a media kit: make and develop media contacts and coverage; get and do  interviews. Oh, and let's not forget use the power, popularity and marketing saavy of Amazon as your own. "The Frugal Book Promoter. How to Do What Your  Publisher Won't," shows you how to cut those costs, cut those corners, save time, energy, and money, with samples, links, resources, and contact information, and how to get the most from your budget at: Conferences; Book  Fairs; Trade Shows: and from promotional gifts, give aways, and contests. Don't start your trip on the Writing Road without your map to  the top of Publishing Mountain, "The Frugal Book Promoter. How to Do What Your Publisher Won't" http://carolynhowardjohnson.com Charlene Austin writes fiction under the pen name Carrie Lynn Lyons. She is the founder/moderator of Writing Road, managing editor of the Writing Road  Newsletter, founder and reviewer for Writers and Readers Network. Her reviews, stories, and poems have appeared in Sabledrake, Mystery Fanatic Ezine, MS. Magazine on line, All Readers, Northeast Book Reviews, About Women.com, Sacred  Twilight, Twilight Times, and other on line venues. www.carrielynnlyons.com "Dream Pictures" Book one of the Carnival Soul Trilogy, www.writingroad.com  www.writersandreadersnetwork.com

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