Look and Listen

Biography

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's has appeared on more than 300 TV and radio shows. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's renowned Writers' Program and author of This Is the Place, a novel that won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three. She is also the author of the award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers including The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004," and the winner of the coveted Irwin Award. The second in the series is The Frugal Editor, also a USA Book News winner. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers' Society of America's Silver Award of Excellence. She is the recipient of the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her community's Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." Her website is www.HowToDoItFrugally.com . She Squidoos at http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/workshop/HowToDoItFrugallyforAuthors. She blogs at www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com. Fellow authors will also find helpful www.TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com, www.AuthorsCoalition.blogspot.com, www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. Howard-Johnson is also a political being. Find more on that at www.WarPeaceTolerance.blogspot.com.

Inspiration

There is nothing like a degree in English Literature to influence a writer. I especially love American and Russian authors. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Hemingway, Harper Lee. My background in journalism (The Salt Lake Tribune, Pasadena Star News, Glendale News Press, and others) and my experiencee with magazines (Good Housekeeping Magazine) and, of course my experience as a publicist (Eleanor Lambert Agency in the days when Mr. Blackwell first issued his Ten Worst Dressed Women list) informed my nonfiction writing including The Frugal Book Promoter and The Frugal Editor.