"Carolyn Howard-Johnson has done it again! Whether you're writing your first book or tenth, The Frugal Editor, Best Book Forward is a must-read."

Tim Bete, director, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop and author, In The Beginning . . . There Were No Diapers

 

" . . . Carolyn Howard-Johnson has created a practical guide to editing your work which you’ll want to keep handy and refer to every time you finish a piece of work, whether it be a query letter, a simple pitch, or a novel. Use her system step-by-step and you will very likely see your work change from an attractive lump of coal to a polished diamond editors won’t be able to refuse."

Magdalena Ball, editor, The Compulsive Reader

 

"In this invaluable (and yes, accessible and engaging, too!) resource, Carolyn Howard-Johnson masterfully elevates an oft-misunderstood practice into the critical component of writing that it is. Don’t turn in anything until you turn to this book.”

Peter Bowerman, author, The Well-Fed Writer series

 

"You hit the nail on the head with The Frugal Editor. You’ve pointed out the gremlins and simplified the eradication process. What more could a writer/editor/publisher ask for?"

Peggi Ridgway, author, Successful Website Marketing and other business books

 

"The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success will become a well-used reference for writers around the world."

Cheryl Wright, editor, Writer2Writer

 

"Most writers would never be so self-destructive as to submit an unedited manuscript for consideration, but agents and publishers tell us it happens often. To me, that's tantamount to showing up at a job interview wearing a T-shirt and flip-flops.  So much success in life depends on actions the performance of which does not guarantee success, but nonperformance guarantees failure. Take it from editors and publishers:  Never submit an unedited manuscript.

I myself have a shelf of reference books on writing, grammar, style and editing.

One of those is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward

to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success, by Carolyn Howard-Johnson."

Virgil Jose, writer and freelance editor

 

“Good editing is like honest business accounting: If you don’t have it, you end up with a mess.  The Frugal Editor is a must for the novice writer who needs to make that ideal first impression and the writer with a tenth book hitting the shelves who has become complacent about his brilliant prose.”

Kristin Johnson, author and writing consultant

 

"Nothing demonstrates professionalism like a well-edited submission. Follow Carolyn Howard-Johnson's clear, step-by-step self-editing approach for Putting Your Best Book Forward and you'll submit like a pro."

Gregory A. Kompes, conference coordinator, The Las Vegas Writer's Conference

 

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered are both award-winners. Her 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 and Dayton University's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop. She was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature; her home town's Character and Ethics Commission honored for her work on promoting tolerance and the Pasadena Weekly named her to their list of "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen" for literary activism.

 

Her nitty gritty how-to book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER won USA Book News' Best Professional Book and the Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award. Her chapbook of poetry, TRACINGS, was named to The Compulsive Readers Top 10 Best Reads for 2004 and was given the Military Writers Society of American Silver Award for Excellence.

Carolyn's newest book is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward
to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success . Cheryl Wright of Writer2Writer.com says, "The Frugal Editor will become a well-used reference for writers around the world."  It will be released by Red Engine Press spring of 2007.


Howard-Johnson 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.
 
Carolyn is the founder of Authors' Coalition (www.authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com) and editor of the newsletter for that organization as well as a blog
( http://redenginepress.com/chjohnson ) that helps authors turn a dull book fair booth into a sizzling success.

 

She also rants occasionally on another blog at http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com.

 

Her website is: http://carolynhoward-johnson.com.