How I Love Teaching People to Avoid the Publicity and Editing Potholes I Fell Into...

...and getting awarded for it! (-: Here is the result of that and something I'm proud of! (-: By the way, thanks to Book Market.ning.com member Yvonne Perry for reminding me to do this! Ha!

Writers Group Names Carolyn Howard-Johnson Honorary Member

According to a joint announcement by Paulette Ensign(www.tipsbooklets.com), Board Member of the Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Andrew Chapman (http://achapman.com/) and Karla Olson (http://bookstudiobooks.com/), PWSD copresidents, Carolyn Howard-Johnson has been voted an honorary member of their group.

They say, "PWSD has become more knowledgeable in the publishing industry, grown in numbers, and increased in professional enthusiasm as a direct result of [Howard-Johnson's] contribution."

Howard-Johnson is the author of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, USA Book News' Best Professional Book 2004 and winner of the Irwin Award. Upon the release of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success in October of 2007, it will be the flagship book in what will then be the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books aimed at helping authors.

The author's first novel, This is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction has won three. Her chapbook of poetry, Tracings, received Military Writers' Society of America Award of Excellence and was named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list. She is an extension division instructor for UCLA’s Writers’ Program and speaks at writers' conferences nationwide. She was also named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature.

To learn more about PWSD go to http://www.PublishersWriters.org.

Learn more about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com.

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