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Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of This Is the Place<ref> </ref>, a winner of
eight awards, and "Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered," the winner of three including the Red Sky Press Award and WordThunder's Award of Excellence. Her poetry and short stories are seen frequently in review journals.

The author's fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She speaks on culture, tolerance, writing and promotion and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and has shared her expertise at venues like San Diego State's world renowned Writers' Conference, Call to Arts! EXPO, San Diego State University's Writers' Conference, the Association of Mormon Letters Writers' Conference and Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.

Howard-Johnson was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature and her city's Ethics award for her work on promoting tolerance. Pasadena Weekly named her to their list of women of the San Gabrial Valley who make life work. Her chapbook of poetry, TRACINGS, is now available from Finishing Line Press. It was named to the Compulsive Reader's Top 10 Reads list and the Military Writers' Society of America gave it their award of excellence.

Her nitty gritty how-to book, The Frugal Book Promoter<ref> </ref>
won USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004 and the Book Publicist's of Southern California's Irwin Award. It is available at many university bookstores and online. The second book in the How To Do It Frugally Series of books for writers is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward To Avoid Humiliation And Ensure Success<ref> </ref>.

The author is the founder of Authors' Coalition and editor of the newsletter for that organization as well as a blog that helps authors turn a dull book fair booth into a sizzling success.

She loves to travel and has studied writing at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, UK: Herzen University in St. Petersburg, RU; and Charles University in Prague.

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Personal home page

Authors' Coalition

a blog